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Katy Perry wins in Dark Horse copyright appeal
Katy Perry will no longer have to pay $2.8m (£2.1m) to a rapper who said she stole his song on her hit Dark Horse. Marcus Gray sued Perry in 2014, saying she had plagiarised an […]
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Ed Sheeran denies Shape of You copyright claim at High Court trial
Ed Sheeran has told the High Court he does not “borrow” ideas from unknown songwriters without credit. The singer-songwriter has been accused by two other songwriters of copying parts of his 2017 hit Shape Of […]
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RIAA Wins $83 Million in Piracy Damages From YouTube Ripper
The RIAA has secured a multi-million dollar victory in its piracy lawsuit against YouTube-rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com. A Virginia federal approved the damages request after a hard-fought legal battle that took place over several years. […]
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GirlsDoPorn victims win rights to their videos
Hundreds of people tricked into making explicit videos for porn websites have been awarded the rights to the videos and millions of dollars in damages. The sites, GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, had been the subject of […]
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UK Court Hands Down Suspended Jail Sentence to eBay Seller of Pirate IPTV Boxes
A 57-year-old man who sold hundreds of pirate IPTV boxes through eBay in the UK has received a two-year suspended prison sentence. The prosecution, brought by Westminster City Council’s Trading Standards team with help from […]
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Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video. […]
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Virgin Media Subscribers Told to Pay “Thousands of Pounds” to Settle Piracy Lawsuits
Virgin Media subscribers receiving letters accusing them of movie piracy may find that settling their cases will be a costly affair. TorrentFreak understands that settlement demands run to several thousand pounds, a massive uplift on […]
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UK Police Shut Pirate IPTV Network With “Hundreds of Thousands” of Customers
West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft say they have dismantled a major illegal streaming operation in the UK. Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of copyright infringement, fraud […]
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SPARKS Piracy Group: British Man Extradited to US to Face Criminal Conspiracy Charges
British man George Bridi, an alleged member of the infamous SPARKS release group, has been extradited to the United States from Cyprus. He faces several charges including conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, wire fraud conspiracy, […]
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Federal Court Orders Pirate Box Sellers To Pay US$23.6m in Copyright Damages
Bell Canada, Videotron, Group TVA and Rogers Communications have been awarded in excess of US$23.6m in copyright damages by a judge at Canada’s Federal Court. The long-running case was filed against retailers involved in the […]