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Together against illegal streaming: The Danish League joins The Rights Alliance
The Rights Alliance’s work on blocking is further intensified with The Danish League joining, focusing on transmissions of illegal live sports. The Rights Alliance’s efforts and experience in the field of blocking are not only significant for Danish rights holders but...
High Court Increases Sentence in Streaming Fraud Case: Two Years in Prison and Confiscation of 3.5 Million DKK
In a historic appeal case, the Western High Court has increased the sentence for a massive fraud involving playbacks of music on streaming services. The ruling may become significant in future efforts to combat fraud in the music industry. Press Release In the appeal...
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...