Report: Big Tech increasing dominance in Germany’s video ad market www.advanced-television.com/2026/05/21/r...

Further Limitations and Exceptions In the existing copyright mean a weakening for Authors. europeanwriterscouncil.eu/260525_wipo_... Pressure on human authors and the exploitation of their works increases, budgets for education and culture are cut, Big tech is disrespecting authors’ rights & culture

Sports broadcasting is a powerhose of world and EU exports. — Live sports advertising is set to become a more than $20 billion business in 2027, growing far faster than the broader television market www.adweek.com/convergent-t...

Whack-a-mole piracy enforcement is limited in the UK. www.alliance4creativity.com/blog/mpa-app...

“A database maintained by Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow at the Paris School of Advanced Business Studies (HEC Paris), lists more than 1,400 cases where courts have addressed AI errors in the past three years, including filings by attorneys and self-represented litigants. “ #SciAM #AI

The last paragraph of this FT column: "Voters won’t wait forever for someone to slow things down: they may take things into their own hands... And it won’t be possible to shoot them all."

www.ft.com/content/f5c9... While some tech bosses talk inspirationally about scientific breakthroughs, other plutocrats breach copyright, stand by while their social media platforms harm mental health, demand more energy to power their ambitions with scant concern about climate change ...

www.ft.com/content/f5c9... While some tech bosses talk inspirationally about scientific breakthroughs, other plutocrats breach copyright, stand by while their social media platforms harm mental health, demand more energy to power their ambitions with scant concern about climate change ...

#footballstream #SportsPiracy Pirate Fire Stick and TV box users served notice. Sky had launched civil action against Revolut Bank UAB, after 304 subscribers had used the banking app to pay resellers of pirated content. www.msn.com/en-nz/news/o...

Supported by Google news initiative.... the fox guarding the chicken coop?

From online disruption to real‑world action: UEFA evolves its enforcement strategy against piracy www.alliance4creativity.com/blog/from-on...

“The Commission is seeking stakeholder’s views on challenges raised by generative artificial intelligence for the licensing and enforcement of rights.”

Enforcement of current EU copyright laws must come first. www.advanced-television.com/2026/05/18/e... #EUCopyright #CopyrightEnforcement #DigitalPolicy #CreativeRights #CopyrightLaw #EUCommission #OnlinePiracy #RightsHolders ©️

Like clockwork is Doctorow

We, the EWC, urge European legislators to be truly quick and efficient in finding solutions that can guarantee scrupulous respect for the rights of European authors, instead of postponing an important regulation europeanwriterscouncil.eu/260512_dig_o...

"The self-censorship is political. European leaders are, as a recent Carnegie Endowment analysis put it, “quiet quitting” the US: gradually decoupling in practice while avoiding taking a clear public stance." #EuPolitics #USPolitics #FreedomofSpeech ‌ #BrusselsBubble www.ft.com/content/c4a0...

US copyright chief backs Congress' site-blocking proposal to counter piracy www.mlex.com/mlex/amp/art...

“‘Meta’s copying of these literary works was neither incidental nor accidental,’ the publishers’ suit claims. ‘It was a calculated decision driven by the need to appropriate the expressive value of copyrighted written works to produce an AI system" publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/publ...

Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement www.courthousenews.com/authors-publ...

ECJ ruling on ancillary copyright: Meta must pay for press content in Italy www.heise.de/en/news/ECJ-... #press #publishers #copyrightdirective #copyright

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has confirmed that Central European Media Enterprises (CME) has joined the coalition, strengthening ACE’s global network. www.advanced-television.com/2026/05/14/c...

This is the recommender system that radicalised via YouTube...only a slightly different complexion.

WHEN DOES S.230 AVAIL NO COVER? Netflix sued by Texas AG for alleged surveillance, addictive features www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

OF NOTE: TikTok challenges EU 'gatekeeper' status at Europe's top court www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #DMA #digitalmarketsact #dsa #digitalservicesact #techpolicy #eupolitics #tiktok

Pot / Kettle? Shein accuses Temu of 'industrial scale' copyright breaches in UK legal battle www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Broadcaster Loses FIFA World Cup Rights After 20 Years, Citing “Rampant Piracy” torrentfreak.com/broadcaster-...

ORGANIZED. PIRACY. CRIME. How Global Piracy Networks Became Organised Crime Syndicates x.com/NetopiaEU/st...

Credit where credit is due! Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging that the electronics manufacturer used her likeness to sell TVs without paying her and without permission. variety.com/2026/music/n...

The DSM Copyright Directive’s TDM exceptions were designed for analysis — extracting patterns, trends & correlations — not for models that absorb & recombine protected expression. #Copyright #AI #TDM #DSMDirective #GenerativeAI #IP #CreatorsRights #DigitalPolicy

The DSM Copyright Directive’s TDM exceptions were designed for analysis — extracting patterns, trends & correlations — not for models that absorb & recombine protected expression. #Copyright #AI #TDM #DSMDirective #GenerativeAI #IP #CreatorsRights #DigitalPolicy

"The platform can therefore act simultaneously as distributor, competitor, gatekeeper, data controller and quasi‑regulator through its terms and conditions." the-platform-law.com/2026/05/08/f...

YouTube accused of being TV market “free rider” www.advanced-television.com/2026/05/08/f...

How Global Piracy Networks Became Organised Crime Syndicates www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A joint investigation by the Digital Citizens Alliance and IP House documents how large-scale digital piracy has become a multibillion-dollar criminal ecosystem — intertwined with drug & human trafficking, weapons smuggling and terrorism financing.

A joint investigation by the Digital Citizens Alliance and IP House documents how large-scale digital piracy has become a multibillion-dollar criminal ecosystem — intertwined with drug & human trafficking, weapons smuggling and terrorism financing.

The emerging AI content market, intended to help publishers monetise the value their work provides to AI models, is already reproducing familiar structural flaws. #AI #Copyright #Publishers #ContentLicensing #DigitalMarkets #MediaPolicy #CreativeEconomy static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449...

#StarterPack emphasis on platforms, competition law, digital rights, tech regulation, press freedom, market dominance, surviellance capitalism, and tech landscape within EU (Copyright Directive, Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR & AI Act). bsky.app/starter-pack...

Netopia.Eu on LinkedIn - please connect by following the page. www.linkedin.com/company/neto...

How Creators and Creative Industries Are Pushing Back Against AI Theft copyrightalliance.org/creative-ind... #Copyright, #AI, #AIEthics, #CreatorsRights, #CopyrightLaw, #CreativeIndustries, #AITrainingData, #ContentTheft, #FairUse, #DigitalRights

With Bol & Vinted? Who regulates who?

How Creators and Creative Industries Are Pushing Back Against AI Theft copyrightalliance.org/creative-ind... #Copyright, #AI, #AIEthics, #CreatorsRights, #CopyrightLaw, #CreativeIndustries, #AITrainingData, #ContentTheft, #FairUse, #DigitalRights

"ACE is not only protecting individual assets, but industry as a whole, incl. the professionals behind live sporting events whose livelihoods are affected by the diversion of audiences from legitimate platforms to pirate streams ." via @Unite4Copyright copyrightalliance.org/sports-copyr...

News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content www.newsmediaalliance.org/nma-letter-t...

"The real problem is platform design and business models. What we need from EU lawmakers is to enforce existing rules, hold companies accountable and nudge platforms to build systems that protect everyone regardless of their age." via EDRi-gram edri.org/our-work/edr... @edri.bsky.social

Fast forward to when Amazon buys DAZN? "Sources: London-based DAZN agrees to acquire ViewLift, which builds tech for streaming services for 15 professional US sports teams and others, for ~$100M " www.wsj.com/business/med...?

EBU urges EU policymakers to strengthen AVMSD www.advanced-television.com/2026/05/01/e...

“Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party is urging the government to consider adding penalties to the country’s artificial intelligence law, as concerns grow over deepfakes and copyright infringement tied to generative AI.” www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

VPNs are not all they are cracked up to be. This is old data. But not a lot has changed since.

Redlining has become Weblining

The GAFA firms make over 50x the turnover of Standard Oil when it was broken into 34 companies back in 1911 when found in breach of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Might be time to look at these companies? ipwatchdog.com/2018/02/28/t...