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Fees, and thats because there —— the copyright act has a cost shifting provision, which is if you have filed your copyright application and somebody accuses you wrongfully of infringing the copyright, you get your legalfees paid by the loser, so this plaintiff actually has a lot to lose. i guess it depends on the outcome of cases like this one to see whether we will see more and more cases like this in the future? i suppose thats true. i think maybe the blurred lines case, where a plaintiff ...

Mutua said Kecobo had introduced an amendment that would have far-reaching implications on the copyright industry in Kenya.

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has held that Section 63 of the Copyright Act, which penalizes infringement of any copyright, is a cognizable and a non-bailable offence

The court was dealing with a suit filed by Phonographic Performance Limited, a British copyright collective, against an event management firm that provides various services, including DJs for weddings.

Under the apartheid era Copyright Act, its practically impossible for most people with visual and print disabilities to access versions of published works in, for example braille, without risking falling foul of the law.

Given that the there is no legal framework for NFTs and cryptocurrency in India, there is a big question mark over whether publishing houses having FDI in India can sell NFTs directly to end consumers.

A Division Bench stayed the order of a single-judge which had set aside an order of the Central government granting registration to Recorded Music Performance Limited.

The budget proposes to amend the Copyright Act to extend copyright protection from 50 to 70 years after the death of the author, as required by the Canada

The US Copyright Office Review Board rejected a request to register a computer-generated image of a landscape for copyright protection, explaining that a work must be created by a human being to obtain a copyright.

The Writers' Union of Canada has launched a petition to the federal government calling for the immediate amendment of the Copyright Act.