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# Copyright

This year
2023
# High Court
Nike to take legal action against Irish teen's shop using 'Swoosh' name
Nike has claimed that 16-year-old’s business infringes on its trademarked ‘Swoosh’ logo.
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Jan 15th 2023, 2:23 PM
Last year
2022
# vaccine equity
Breakthrough on Covid vaccine intellectual rights reached by EU, US, India and South Africa
The EU has climbed down on its position in order to help get the whole world equal access to vaccines.
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Mar 16th 2022, 10:30 PM
All time
# Copyright
EU copyright directive signed into Irish law boosting rights of content creators
The directive requires tech giants to share revenue with publishers.
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Nov 19th 2021, 8:01 AM
# dark horse
Singer Katy Perry's 2013 hit Dark Horse copied Christian rap song, jury finds
Perry’s hit Dark Horse bears similarities to Joyful Noise by Flame, who first took a case against the singer in 2014.
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Jul 30th 2019, 9:01 AM
# European Parliament
MEPs vote in controversial laws that places copyright responsibility on Google and YouTube
Intense lobbying was done by tech giants like Google, which profits hugely from the advertising generated alongside the content it hosts.
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Mar 26th 2019, 8:40 PM
# damages claim
Singer songwriter brings copyright infringement action to High Court over One Direction song
David Lewis Smith claims the One Direction release Night Changes infringes his musical work.
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Feb 7th 2019, 5:54 PM
# dodgy boxes
Gardaí arrest four in crackdown on illegal TV streaming
The Garda Criminal Assets Bureau has also sought to freeze bank accounts worth €84,000.
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Sep 12th 2018, 8:57 AM
# Filtering
Explainer: Why tech experts think the EU's proposed copyright law will 'screw up the whole internet'
Internet users have been warned that even their beloved memes are at risk.
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Jun 24th 2018, 10:00 PM
# Your Say
Poll: Have you ever illegally streamed or downloaded entertainment?
We won’t tell.
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Jan 16th 2018, 9:08 AM
# questions of copyright
'I made just 97p in a month from plays of Brewing Up A Storm on YouTube'
At the launch of a new IMRO report today, there was a serious focus on the issue of copyright and how much musicians make from sites like YouTube.
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Nov 16th 2017, 2:18 PM
# Lose yourself
New Zealand political party ordered to pay €351k to Eminem in copyright case
The National Party had used a work entitled ‘Eminem Esque’ which the rapper’s publishers said was actually one of his songs under a different name.
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Oct 25th 2017, 7:42 AM
# monkey see monkey sue
British photographer wins court battle over monkey selfie
Peta had argued that the monkey called Naruto owned the copyright to the photo.
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Sep 12th 2017, 9:43 PM
# misc
Founder of TheLiberal.ie posts apology for breaching copyright in light font
Leo Sherlock was ordered to apologise as part of a court settlement.
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Jul 13th 2017, 4:24 PM
# been a hard pay fight
As The Beatles' first single approaches the '56-year rule', Paul McCartney settles rights lawsuit
The former Beatle had filed an action against Sony ATV Music Publishing.
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Jul 4th 2017, 8:33 AM
# That's a relief
You can now sing Happy Birthday for free
Strictly speaking every time you’ve sung it in recent times you’ve been breaching copyright. Not any longer however…
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Feb 9th 2016, 10:14 PM
# remixes
Fianna Fáil wants a new law to protect the national anthem
Amhrán na bhFiann’s copyright expired three years ago.
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Jan 14th 2016, 2:51 PM
# Naruto
Judge rules selfie monkey can't own photo copyright
PETA petitioned the court to have the macaque “declared the author and owner of his photograph”.
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Jan 7th 2016, 12:37 PM
# MegaVideo
Kim Dotcom is falling into the clutches of the US but he's vowing to fight on
A New Zealand court has decided that he can be extradited.
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Dec 23rd 2015, 7:54 AM
# Adolf Hitler
Print and be damned? Germany unsure of what to do with 'Mein Kampf'
“There is a German peculiarity of worrying about what others might say.”
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Nov 1st 2015, 10:15 AM
# downward facing dog
A court has ruled that this man can't copyright yoga poses
Bikram Choudhury has taken credit for extending the careers of sports stars like John McEnroe.
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Oct 9th 2015, 4:37 PM
# hail to the chimp
Photographer back in court over monkey selfie
US animal rights activists PETA have taken the nature photographer involved to court over the snap.
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Sep 24th 2015, 8:55 AM
# long legal battle
Good news for film producers ... people can now sing 'Happy Birthday' without being sued
Warner Chappell Music does “not own a valid copyright,” a judge said.
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Sep 23rd 2015, 4:00 PM
# sweet deposition
Lindt has beaten Haribo in a bitter court battle over gummy bears
Haribo argued that Lindt’s bear-shaped chocolates infringed on their gummy bear.
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Sep 23rd 2015, 10:55 AM
# shake it off
A Twitter campaign appealing to Taylor Swift's sound side just paid off
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate…
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Aug 4th 2015, 8:17 AM
# Copyright
Twitter's been cracking down on stolen jokes - and it's not a new thing
If you’re losing out commercially, it will.
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Jul 27th 2015, 5:20 PM
# no you did not
Neil Young to Donald Trump: 'Cease and desist from rockin' in the free world'
The Don apparently didn’t have permission to use his music to launch his presidential campaign yesterday.
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Jun 17th 2015, 8:33 PM
# losing my religion
Artist says Catholic paper used image without permission to promote faith in the home
“They no longer live ‘happily ever after’ … Being the child of parents with no faith is tough.”
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Jun 5th 2015, 11:03 AM
# Mapping it out
Why do map makers create fake towns?
Very sneaky cartographers. Very sneaky.
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Mar 21st 2015, 5:30 PM
# Copyright Infringement
Google was asked to remove 345 million 'pirate' links in 2014
The number of requests increased by 75% compared to 2013.
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Jan 5th 2015, 3:42 PM
# not so happy now
Pharrell Williams and other mega music stars threaten to sue YouTube for $1 billion
It’s all about copyright and who gets paid for artists’ tracks.
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Dec 23rd 2014, 5:06 PM
# Copyright
Playboy magazine sues entertainment.ie over nude Kate Moss photos
Playboy says the link was published a week before the 60th edition of the magazine and it destroyed the exclusivity of the shoot.
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Dec 9th 2014, 6:25 PM
# Copyright
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested after attempting to cross border into Thailand
Fredrik Neij reportedly fled to Southeast Asia after being released on bail.
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Nov 4th 2014, 5:40 PM
# Copyright
Heirs of Sherlock Holmes author had their petition refused by US Supreme Court today
A court ruling stands that some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories are no longer in copyright.
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Nov 3rd 2014, 10:13 PM
# hug me
Robin Thicke was high when he recorded Blurred Lines, then lied about it
And he’s jealous of Pharrell Williams.
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Sep 16th 2014, 8:37 AM
# war has begun
Photographer loses battle with Wikipedia over this amazing monkey selfie
It was “the work of a non-human animal”, apparently…
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Aug 6th 2014, 9:55 PM
# Copyright
Apple's distinctive store design has now been trademarked by the EU
The ruling means that the layout of Apple’s stores are now registered as a trademark in both the US and EU.
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Jul 10th 2014, 3:03 PM
# Space Oddity
Chris Hadfield's David Bowie cover removed from the internet
Houston, we have a problem.
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May 14th 2014, 7:41 AM
# copywrong
Singing Hallelujah priest's video removed from YouTube after 32 million hits
It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Apr 30th 2014, 9:14 AM
# Blocking
EU Court of Justice rules that ISPs can be forced to block copyright-infringing sites
The ruling allows ISPs to decide the best way to combat copyright violations in their respective country.
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Mar 27th 2014, 4:48 PM
# arr-ndroid
Android pirates plead guilty in first counterfeit apps case
More than one million counterfeit apps were sold by US site appbucket.net, which were worth more than €500,000.
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Mar 25th 2014, 10:01 AM
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