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A novel children’s mass “Silent Days, Silent Dreams,” is billed equally a fictional biography almost James Castle, a self-taught creative someone whose industrial plant tin travel constitute inward museums, fine art galleries as well as individual collections all over the world. Written for children, the mass contains almost 150 illustrations past times award-winning author as well as illustrator Allen Say - but are those illustrations going to crusade problems? They powerfulness practise equally the James Castle Collection as well as Archive (which has the largest privately held collection of Castle’s works) is suing Say as well as his publisher for copyright infringement inward Boise federal court, alleging that many of Say’s illustrations “are intended to evoke as well as simulate the artistic agency of James Castle but some 2 dozen of the illustrations “are far to a greater extent than than a tribute” as well as are “similar if non virtually identical copies” of Castle’s operate (see left). An injunction is beingness sought. 

What a deviation a decade makes! China's "core network copyright industry" has seen rapid growth over the past times 10 years, according to a recent manufacture report. In 2016, the scale of the manufacture exceeded 500 billion yuan (about $76.5 billion U.S. dollars), maintaining a growth charge per unit of measurement of over thirty pct a year, according to a study past times the country's Network Copyright Industry Research Centre. In 2006, the mass of the manufacture was simply sixteen billion yuan, the study said. The study focuses on China's "network industry," described equally network gaming as well as online content, including video as well as music. Researcher Tian Xiaojun said "With the continuous growth of copyright protection inward Communist People's Republic of China as well as the upgrade of domestic consumption, China's network copyright manufacture volition stimulate got huge marketplace position potential as well as is expected to contribute to a greater extent than to the country's economic scheme growth".

Mike Palmedo as well as Sean Flynn stimulate got released the initial results of inquiry based on  the Program on Information Justice as well as Intellectual Property of the American University Washington College of Law's Copyright User Rights Database. This inquiry tool maps changes to copyright limitations as well as exceptions as well as other “user rights” from 1970 through 2016 inward 21 countries of dissimilar evolution levels around the World. Palmedo as well as Flynn shout back to proceed adding information from additional countries, but experience that the electrical flow information allows us to laid about demonstrating how differences inward copyright user rights are associated amongst sure enough outcomes for innovative firms as well as researchers. The first results are based on tests of copyright limitation openness as well as although all countries are trending toward to a greater extent than opened upward user rights, at that topographic point is a clear gap betwixt wealthy as well as developing countries. The inquiry shows that developing countries inward the sample are right away at the bird of openness that existed inward the wealthy countries thirty years ago. Few countries, as well as almost no developing countries, stimulate got sufficient user rights most needed to back upward the digital economy, including for transformative role or text as well as datamining. The authors say "To date, at that topographic point has been real picayune empirical operate exploring how the construction of copyright limitations as well as other user rights shape outcomes inward industries that rely upon them. One argue for this lack of empirical inquiry on the touching on of copyright user rights has been the absence of a tool to stair out the fundamental independent variable – changes inward copyright user rights over fourth dimension amid a broad ready of countries. We promise other researchers volition notice the Copyright User Rights database to travel a useful tool for farther empirical inquiry on copyright user rights". More here.  This is the minute fourth dimension the lensman has defendant CBS Interactive's 247 Sports senior author Alex Gleitman of misusing photos inward his articles, initially tweeting "To Alex Gleitman. You're violating copyright law. Photo Jon Tannen" as well as "@Alex Gleitman You've used my photos illegally again. REMOVE THEM NOW. Never asked past times permission. Your ain logo.Are you lot stupid? @jtanne". Glietman responded past times maxim that he has been plough over the images past times the thespian featured, as well as had later added a credit. 

And talking of all things American Football as well as copyright, Eleonora Rosati has posed the query "Can a tweet containing an unlicensed photograph amount to a copyright infringement past times the someone who embeds such tweet on their ain site?" on the IPKat. European readers volition of course of pedagogy travel familiar amongst the less than clear judgments in BestWater and subsequent illustration law, notably GS Media - and inward Europe, linking tin autumn inside the compass of the correct of communication to the world inside Article 3(1) of the InfoSoc Directive, although dissimilar considerations must travel undertaken depending on the illustration at issue, including whether the link provider is aware of the unlicensed graphic symbol of the content linked to and/or pursues a profit.  This real query is right away beingness asked inward the US, where a lensman working amongst Getty Images has raised issues of linking as well as copyright nether United States of America of America law: Justin Goldman, has sued a number of publishers over the unauthorised embedding, past times their relevant publications, of a tweet containing an unlicensed paradigm of American football game quarterback Tom Brady that he had taken. Images from http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Sport-Quarterback-American-Football-Competition-67701/ 

Google is fighting on inward the Equustek case, More here.  This is the minute fourth dimension the lensman has defendant CBS Interactive's 247 Sports senior author Alex Gleitman of misusing photos inward his articles, initially tweeting "To Alex Gleitman. You're violating copyright law. Photo Jon Tannen" as well as "@Alex Gleitman You've used my photos illegally again. REMOVE THEM NOW. Never asked past times permission. Your ain logo.Are you lot stupid? @jtanne". Glietman responded past times maxim that he has been plough over the images past times the thespian featured, as well as had later added a credit. 

And talking of all things American Football as well as copyright, Eleonora Rosati has posed the query "Can a tweet containing an unlicensed photograph amount to a copyright infringement past times the someone who embeds such tweet on their ain site?" Google Inc v Equustek Solutions Inc, 2017 SCC 34 affirmed a determination from the Supreme Court inward British Columbia and ordered Google to delist a tech company’s entire website worldwide. The spider web giant has right away told a Californian courtroom that that the ruling conflics amongst the liberty of facial expression rights contained inside the First Amendment, and that the Canadian Supreme Court had no correct meddling amongst the American constitution.  Google’s lawyer Margaret Caruso said “This is almost whether a trial courtroom inward a unusual Blue Planet tin implement a constabulary that is violative of the center values of this Blue Planet … imagine if nosotros got an monastic tell from Democratic People's South Korea that said nosotros could non seat out anything critical of Dear Leader. Imagine if Russian Federation doesn’t similar what people are maxim almost Putin. It would travel real unsafe to deny relief inward this instance”. Courthouse News says "Underscoring the bizarre nature of the proceedings, no attorneys for Equustek Solutions or the Canadian courtroom organization showed up, allowing Caruso to province her illustration to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila unopposed."

And finally, CMU Daily reports that "According to constabulary theatre RPC, the 3 leading claimants inward the [UK's] High Court inward the twelvemonth upward to 31 Mar 2017 were all inward the work concern of copyright. And 2 of them music copyright." Leading the agency amongst 106 cases to courtroom was the UK's recorded music collecting gild PPL, spell its counterpart inward music publishing, PRS, came inward 3rd amongst 27 cases. The Football Association is inward minute house having filed 39 cases, mainly seeking to protect its intellectual belongings rights against those illegally accessing or airing footage of football game matches.