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Court Rules: Live Sports Can Be Protected by copyright in Denmark
The Danish Rights Alliance and the Spanish football league LALIGA have won a years-long case. The case demonstrates that it’s possible to block websites that provide illegal links to football matches and more generally that live sports can be protected and enforced in...
Rights Alliance guides educational institutions on the legal restrictions on the use of chatbots
After finding that textbooks are being uploaded to generative AI tools without the necessary permission from the publisher, RettighedsAlliancen publishes a guide on the legal restrictions on the use of chatbots at educational institutions. There has been an urgent...
Unpredictable and unfair rulings prevent designers from taking legal action when they are copied
A major study of legal practice in design copying cases shows that the level of damages is too low, unpredictable, and undermines rights holders' faith in the legal system. Copying has become a sad reality for many designers. The Rights Alliance, with support from...
New materials will help institutions teach copyright to students
In the 'UdRet' project, materials have been created in collaboration with several educational institutions to make it easier to guide students to legal use of study books. Lack of consideration for copyright when it comes to purchasing study books is a common theme...
New leader in the Rights Alliance Board of Directors
Nicky Valbjørn Trebbien, Head of Legal at Koda, is the new head of the Rights Alliance Board, which is at the same time saying goodbye to Charlotte Enevoldsen, Deputy Director at the Danish Producers' Association, and Kaspar Lindhardt, Legal Advisor at Koda. On...
Rights Alliance removes illegal voice clones used by 7,500 people
The Rights Alliance works to combat the abuse of rights holders and has just removed an illegal voice clone of actor David Bateson that has been used by 7,500 users. It is a growing problem that rights holders are being infringed by voice clones. This includes...
New awareness campaign aims to combat design copy consumption in Denmark
19 per cent of Danes have copies of Danish design in their homes and another 19 per cent are considering buying copies in the near future. The ‘Støt Originalt Dansk Design’ (Support original Danish design) campaign wants to change that. The internet is flooded with...
New report uncovers lack of transparency at the largest AI services
Despite high demand for transparency from rights holders, an analysis by the Rights Alliance shows that AI providers are becoming less transparent. Transparency about what content has been used to train artificial intelligence is crucial for rights holders to enforce...
39-year-old arrested and charged after systematically sharing nude scenes from Danish films
Last year, the Rights Alliance reported a man for illegally sharing nude scenes with female actors in a group he managed on Reddit. Today, the National Unit for Special Crime (NSK) has arrested a 39-year-old man from Valby and charged him with copyright infringement...
Common Crawl web archive stops illegal copying of Danish media houses’ content
The result comes after a written request from the Rights Alliance, which means Denmark continues to lead the way in enforcing rights in relation to artificial intelligence Danish media organisations' exclusive control over their own content is crucial to maintaining...
The Rights Alliance appointed as the first Danish trusted flagger
With the special status as a trusted flagger, online platforms are now obliged to prioritise the Rights Alliance's reports of illegal content In the future, Danish rights holders can look forward to the illegal sharing of their content reported by the Rights Alliance...
New educational programme at Gyldendal focuses on the difference between yours and mine
9 out of 10 young people have tried streaming illegally before they leave primary school. In the programme ‘Yours and mine on the internet, young people are trained to go against the unhealthy streaming culture. The Rights Alliance's youth panel often express that...