Japanese police have arrested the alleged "first uploader" of a pirated NHK drama on Nyaa, the torrent index that has sat near the top of the anime piracy ecosystem for the better part of a decade. On 28 July 2026, the Cyber Investigation Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, working with Fushimi Police Station, detained a man resident in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, on suspicion of violating Japan’s Copyright Act.1,2,4 The allegation is that he posted the torre

AI-generated short dramas are becoming increasingly popular online. As more and more people are using AI to create short dramas and the revenue prize increases, an important legal issue has come up: can AI short drama be protected under copyright law, and if someone copied this short drama, what can the creator do to protect their copyright?

By Oliver Walsh, Head of Evidence Services, Rouse In 2020, a legal research startup called ROSS Intelligence went to Thomson Reuters and asked to license Westlaw. It was told no. Westlaw's owner was not about to hand its editorial content to a company building a rival product. On the district court's findings, ROSS took another route. It paid a third party for tens of thousands of lawyer-written legal memos which had been compiled with reference to Westlaw's headnotes, the sh

Attribution: 中华民国总统府 Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau has opened an investigation into a video that allegedly used an AI-generated voice clone of President Lai Ching-te, in a case that is now testing how far existing forgery law can stretch to cover synthetic political speech. The video, titled "Oil Cannot Defeat You," was published by a creator known as "Principal Lai'er," identified as Wei Chun-you, a former director of the opposition Kuomintang's New Media Department

Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic has received final court approval for a landmark US$1.5 billion settlement resolving copyright claims brought by a class of authors whose books were allegedly copied without permission to build a digital library used in connection with training its Claude AI models. The settlement, approved by a U.S. federal judge, is the largest copyright agreement of its kind in U.S. history and marks another significant development in the growing

South Korea has announced an expansion of its international anti-piracy efforts, signalling a growing recognition that digital piracy is no longer a domestic issue but a transnational criminal challenge requiring coordinated cross-border enforcement. The initiative strengthens cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCOPA), and international law enforcement partners, including Interpol and the United States Homel

By Oliver Walsh, Head of Evidence Services, Rouse In the autumn of 2025, a new actress began doing the rounds. She had a name, Tilly Norwood, a headshot, a showreel and, before long, talent agencies reportedly taking an interest. She had never drawn breath. Tilly was generated entirely by software, and when the actors' union SAG-AFTRA responded, its objection doubled as a definition of the problem. She was, it said, "a character generated by a computer program that was traine

By Oliver Walsh, Head of Evidence Services, Rouse Someone stole the musician. For more than a century, copyright law has focused on protecting creative works. A song, a film, a photograph, a book. Digital piracy simply changed the method of copying. CDs became MP3s. DVDs became torrents. Streaming platforms replaced peer-to-peer networks. The infringement evolved, but the underlying act remained the same. Someone copied the work. Artificial intelligence changes something far

A 40-year-old man once labelled a major figure in India’s online piracy world has been formally acquitted after more than a decade of criminal proceedings tied to the defunct torrent site TellyTorrents . TorrentFreak Background: In the summer of 2015, Pune police arrested Priyank Pardeshi during a visit to India, accusing him of running TellyTorrents a site notorious for hosting pirated Bollywood films, including early leaks of blockbuster Bahubali . At the time, police al

In a significant win for content rights holders, authorities in Egypt have successfully dismantled Streameast , one of the world’s most...

As reported by Storyboard18, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has welcomed the Ministry of Information and...

Vietnam's book publishing industry is on the cusp of explosive growth, yet the old nemesis of piracy continues to undercut its potential....

Seoul, August 2025 . As reported by Torrent Freak , South Korean authorities have shut down a massive piracy operation masquerading as a...

Shanghai's copyright landscape saw key developments over the last year, as the city’s Copyright Bureau unveiled its annual list of 10 high-impact copyright cases in July 2025.

A major new report from TorrentFreak has revealed that Fmovies, once the most visited movie piracy site in the world, is strongly linked...

The global reach of Indian court orders continues to expand, with the latest example being a FIFA Club World Cup piracy-blocking order...

누누티비 최신주소-우회차단 noonootv 막힘 대체사이트 - 인포탑 In a significant crackdown on digital piracy, a South Korean court has handed down a three-year...

The European Commission’s Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List provides an in-depth examination of the evolving landscape of global content...

Representational Image | Image from Pexels via https://theprint.in/ Controversial Bill Sparks Public Outcry A new anti-piracy bill backed...

As reported by the Manila Standard , the Philippines continues to see its creative economy undermined by digital piracy. Despite clear...