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...
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...
By reporting infringements of media companies' trademarks, the Rights Alliance can simultaneously remove scam ads that misuse celebrity identities. Meta doesn't do enough to combat the infringements that are happening in large numbers through celebrity fraud ads on...
Maria Fredenslund will, along with a number of knowledgeable experts, participate in the work to identify the challenges that artificial intelligence poses to copyright and how we solve them. The Rights Alliance has just been selected for the Ministry of Culture's...
With the "Play Fair" campaign, EUIPO encourages fans to watch sports legally. There is also a great need to take action in Denmark, as 31% of Danish young people aged 15-24 stream live sports via illegal services. European Championship fever and Olympic dreams. This...
Artists and celebrities are increasingly experiencing their face, voice and identity being copied and misused in AI-generated content on social media. The Rights Alliance supports the fact that the Minister of Culture will now investigate whether imitation protection...
The extent of student use of illegal digital textbooks accounted for 31% of the total textbook market value in 2022. The new, startling figures call for immediate action. For years, Danish publishers, authors and bookshops have felt the economic impact of the high...
The Rights Alliance's achievement in taking down the illegal Books3 dataset was made possible by the availability of knowledge about the content and origin of the dataset. Complete transparency around artificial intelligence training data is essential for effective...
The number of Danes who stream or download movies, series and sports illegally is fairly stable, according to a new survey from the Danish Chamber of Commerce. 33% have accessed content illegally in 2022 compared to 34% in 2020. However, the survey shows that social...
A new survey from the Danish Chamber of Commerce shows that 43 percent of Danes share or borrow logins to streaming services with people outside their household. This happens even though 70 percent of Danes are aware that this is not allowed. The phenomenon is...
The illegal market in Denmark is at its highest in 9 years. The development is related to a sharp increase in illegal content on Facebook and YouTube, which is used by over 70% of Danish pirates. The Danes' illegal consumption of films and television is growing. This...
Passwords for content services flow between Danish friends and family. This is contrary to the terms of the services and therefore a focus area for the Rights Alliance. Sharing your password for a content service with a friend can feel like a simple service to many....
Maria Fredenslund celebrates her 40th birthday, which marks a great opportunity to look at the journey that Rights Alliance along with Maria has been on to secure rights online. It has not gone unnoticed in the seven years that Maria has been at the helm of Rights...
The Danish design industry is struggling. A new study shows that a large proportion of Danish consumers have either bought or expect to buy replicas of Danish design. But buying counterfeit goods is not without its consequences. "It's cheaper." This is one of the...
In the wake of the shutdowns of the last Danish illegal networks, the Danish Rights Alliance has stated that we will now seek to sanction the hard-core users who continue their illegal activities. But how do we do that? There are doubts in the various piracy...
A group of hard-core users is stubbornly holding on to their illegal sharing and consumption of films, series, literature, and articles, despite police interference on several occasions. The Danish Rights Alliance, therefore, intensifies its focus on these hard-core...
In the final days of 2020, the last Danish anchored piracy services shut down. It is the culmination of many years of focused work to fight illegal services. The reactions have been many. Some say piracy is over, others point out that new services are popping...
Denmark's last remaining illegal pirate services, Asgaard and ShareUniversity, have been shut down. This puts an end to illegal services anchored in Denmark, but a group of committed users requires further efforts.The closure of the two remaining illegal services...
On the occasion of World Anti-Counterfeiting Day, EUIPO has published a report on the purchase and sale of counterfeit goods in the EU in the first half of 2020, which among other things clarifies how the illegal market for copied goods directly supports everything...
The past year has seen a number of major advances in the fight against the illegal market. Rights Alliance's annual report provides an insight into this year's work, successes and challenges. As stated in Rights Alliance's annual report for 2019, we have succeeded in...
In cooperation with a large number of organizations working to combat illegal Internet sites, Rights Alliance has signed a call for ICANN to ensure the possibility of identifying who is responsible for the illegal sites. Domain names are a vital part of the Internet's...
The amount of illegal content on social media and other platforms is so excessive that manual takedowns, as they are operated today, cannot keep up. Therefore, RettighedsAlliancen calls for increased platform responsibility and updated enforcement remedies. The...