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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.
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How to make your farm B&B appeal to the staycation market >More in © Adobe Stock The coronavirus pandemic hit the UK bed and breakfast (B&B) market harder than other forms of staycation such as camping, glamping and holiday lets. Social distancing between groups within one property was more difficult than in some other types of holiday accommodation and guests stayed away at first, says FarmStay chairwoman Kay Barriball. However, where businesses adapted to create safe distancing, the upsurge in the staycation market had compensated...
However, as it stands, there are no automatic blocks in place for so-called “stream rippers”. These websites allow users to download videos streamed online, like those available to watch on YouTube, to keep on their computer. With a dizzying number of music videos, concert footage, film trailers, sporting highlights, and more all available to watch on YouTube – there’s a lot of potential for copyright infringement. After all, while a number of these videos can be viewed online from official channels managed by the rights holders – that doesn’t mean viewers have free reign to downl...
New artists are struggling to break the dominance of old bands such as Queen and the Beatles in the music streaming era, a parliamentary committee heard today.Peter Leathem, chief executive of the