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More Than Seven Billion Visits to Content Piracy Websites, Originated From India in 2022 – Ankura Piracy Statistics Report

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Online content piracy refers to the unauthorized distribution or reproduction of copyrighted material, such as movies, music, and software, over the internet. This is often done through file-sharing websites or peer-to-peer...more

Smart & Biggar

Supreme Court of Canada denies Teksavvy Solutions Inc leave to appeal Canada’s first site-blocking Order

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On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada denied Teksavvy Solutions Inc’s application for leave to appeal a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (2021 FCA 100), affirming the Federal Court’s decision in Bell Media Inc...more

International Lawyers Network

Troubled Waters for Online Pirates in Greece

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On November 6, 2018 a remarkable blow was delivered to online piracy in Greece. On that day, the newly-formed “Committee for Online Copyright Infringement” – informally and more descriptively also known as the Greek...more

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Federal Court of Appeal approves website seizure and Anton Piller order against online copyright piracy platform

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On February 20, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Bell Canada v Lackman (2018 FCA 42), declaring that an interim injunction authorising the shutdown and seizure of piracy websites and an Anton Piller...more

Hogan Lovells

Far-reaching decision by the CJEU on copyright: The Pirate Bay can be blocked by ISPs!

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Swiftly following the CJEU decision in Filmspeler, in which the Court found that the selling of multimedia players with add-ons to illegal streaming websites amounted to copyright infringement, the CJEU has confirmed that an...more

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EU Advocate General in favour of finding copyright infringement by indexing site The Pirate Bay

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The cases that deal with the meaning of “communication to the public” continue: in a current reference for a preliminary ruling, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) will have to decide whether the operators of websites that...more

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