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1: ByteDance’s U.S. Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘League of Legends’ Duplicative, Says Judge
First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Moonton Technology, a company owned by ByteDance, will not have to a face a United States lawsuit filed by Riot Games after a judge said the lawsuit is duplicative and can be better heard in China.
The case centers around accusations that Moonton copied elements from Riot’s hit game League of Legends when making a similar game. The lawsuit was originally filed in China, but Riot, frustrated with the lack of progress there, filed another lawsuit in the United States.
However, that second lawsuit has been dismissed, as the judge sided with Moonton in saying that the case was duplicative and best heard in China. However, the judge did leave it open for Riot to refile claims that were tossed in the Chinese case.
2: Italian Court Upholds Web-Blocking Order Against Cloudflare’s DNS Resolver
Next up today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the Court of Milan has dismissed an appeal by Cloudflare, letting stay a previous ruling that requires the company to block a series of pirate websites on their DNS service.
The court had previously ordered local ISPs to block access to a series of three infringing websites. However, some users were circumventing that block by using Cloudflare’s publicly accessible DNS service. This resulted in a petition to require Cloudflare to block those sites as well, something the court and now appeals court has agreed with.
Cloudflare had previously said that there was no way for them to block access to the sites in just Italy. As such, they appealed the initial verdict, saying that there was a “broad extraterritorial effect”. They also highlighted that they had not blocked any sites at that time. However, now the company has to either comply or face potential fines.
3: Fewer Rightsholders Use YouTube Content ID, But They Flag More Content
Finally today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that YouTube has released their latest transparency report and, even though the number of rightsholders using their Content ID system has dropped, the tool saw more content flagged in the first half of the year.
According to the report, in the first half of the year some 4,773 entities used the Content ID system, down from last year, which was 4,893. However, the total number of notices rose, by 5%, reaching nearly 757 million claims.
The site also was a rise in “normal” takedown through their DMCA form and through their copyright match too. According to YouTube, use of their web form rose by more than 30 percent year over year.
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