Como os principais estúdios, emissoras e distribuidores estão a usar os dados sobre a pirataria para gerar mais receitas? Segundo Guy Oliver, da Muso, “a pirataria tem uma forte correlação com as vendas de bilheteira e com as métricas de sucesso tradicionais do entretenimento doméstico, com a vantagem adicional de não ser limitada ou influenciada pela disponibilidade de títulos, jardins murados, restrições de direitos regionais e preços. Nesta conferência, explora-se a forma como este conjunto de dados extremamente valioso e único pode ser utilizado para aumentar as receitas da televisão e do cinema”.

Movie Piracy is Strongly Linked to Box Office Revenue: New research from piracy tracking firm MUSO shows that movie piracy is strongly linked to box office revenues. When pirated downloads peak or slow down, movie theater visits show a similar trend. While this may sound counterintuitive, the finding is actually quite obvious. Correlation is not causation and pirates are people too.

The Complex Effects of Piracy on the Movie Industry: If so, then the principal effect of movie piracy may not be to lower the overall demand for movies or the number of movies produced. It may be to shift the kind of movies produced, or, more subtly, to shift the way that movies are presented to the public. Unlike the relatively simple framework in which piracy leads to fewer movies, the real effect of piracy may be more subtle, and the case for investing significant resources (especially public resources) in anti-piracy efforts less clear.

Revealed The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI: Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem: While it may seem like these new AI tools can conjure new material from the ether, that’s not quite the case. Generative AI platforms are trained on data lakes and question snippets — billions of parameters that are constructed by software processing huge archives of images and text. The AI platforms recover patterns and relationships, which they then use to create rules, and then make judgments and predictions, when responding to a prompt.

This process comes with legal risks, including intellectual property infringement.

Original Pirate Material: On 28 March 1964, Radio Caroline hit the waves. How did pirate radio discover its winning formula and what happened next?

The football game as a copyright work (Part I) (Part II)

Honor among thieves: how nineteenth century American pirate publishers simulated copyright protection: From 1790 to 1891, the United States prevented foreign authors from obtaining domestic copyright protection, implicitly subsidizing a domestic reprinting industry. With foreign works a “free” and unprotected resource, American publishers created a system of voluntary norms, known as “trade courtesy” to create and enforce pseudo-property rights in uncopyrighted foreign works, simulating the effects of legal copyright protection. This paper analyzes this system using the Bloomington School’s institutional design principles to understand its effectiveness and pitfalls in managing the commons of unprotected foreign works in nineteenth Century America. (…)

The scope and nature of of intellectual property itself remains contentious, with some claiming it is more the result of rent-seeking than a legitimate “right” akin to tangible property. Regardless of one’s normative view of copyright, it remains in the interest of authors and especially publishers to establish property rights over printed works, whether formal or informal.

Studios Are Going After Piracy Again, Potentially Reigniting Fight Over Free Speech: The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed to pass more than a decade ago for potentially promoting censorship.