Copyright

Google agrees to pay French publishers for news

London (CNN Business)--Google will pay news publications in France for the use of their content online in a landmark agreement that could soon be replicated elsewhere in Europe under new copyright laws. The tech company and APIG, which represents French news media, said in a joint statement on

Court upholds $1bn copyright ruling against ISP Cox

Internet service provider (ISP) Cox Communications’ attempt to reduce a $1 billion award of damages for copyright infringement has failed, in a win for music companies including Sony, Universal, and Warner. The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, upheld

Alibaba sued Tencent for Copyright Infringement, Tencent Judged to Compensate 432,000 yuan

Recently, according to a civil judgment published by China Judgments Online, Tencent was sued by Alibaba for infringing on the information network dissemination rights of music works such as Mayday, Liang Jingru, Pinguan, and was sentenced to compensate RMB 432,000 in the first instance.&n

Copyright protection campaign shows big results

More than 3.23 million web links related to copyright infringement and a total of 2,884 pirate applications have been taken off or closed during a joint campaign to beef up copyright protection in China, the National Copyright Administration said on Friday. The campaign, called Sword Net 2020,

bilibili was Sued to Compensate 200,000 yuan since Animation Copyright Infringement

Since it is believed that users of bilibili uploaded an animation series, which violated the copyright of Beijing Xingwei International Cultural Technology Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Kuanyu Digital Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of bilibili, was sued to the cou