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1: Musi Was Kicked Off the App Store Over Copyright Infringement Allegations, Now It’s Accusing Apple of a ‘Backchannel Scheme’ to Remove It

First off, today, Daniel Tencer at Music Business Worldwide reports that Musi, an ad-supported streaming app, is accusing Apple of participating in a “backchannel scheme” to keep the app out of the Apple App Store.

Musi is a free streaming service that gives users access to the audio from YouTube videos. In early October, Apple removed Musi from the App Store due to repeated complaints that the app infringed various music companies’ copyright.

However, in a lawsuit, Musi claims that Apple acted improperly and removed the app at the music industry’s request despite not doing anything unlawful. Apple, for its part, claims that it had no contractual obligation to keep the app in the App Store and that it received a large number of credible complaints about the app.

2: French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the domain name service (DNS) Quad9 has announced that it intends to fight a French court order that requires it to poison its database to block pirate websites.

The case was filed by the local media giant Canal+. The company sought to block access to sports piracy websites. To do that, they wanted not only local internet service providers to block the sites, but for DNS providers to also do so as they were seen as a workaround.

Last week, the court order that blocked the sites was expanded to Quad9 and Vercara. However, Quad9 is fighting the order, claiming that their system requires blocking the sites for all users, regardless of country. Other DNS providers, including Cisco, have stopped serving French users in response to these requirements.

3: Copyright Infringement: Bombay High Court Orders YouTuber ‘Flying Beast’ To Remove Videos Featuring Castrol’s Zero-Gravity Flight Experience

Finally, today, Sanjana Dadmi at LiveLaw reports that, in India, the Bombay High Court has ordered popular YouTuber Gaurav Taneja to remove two videos about a zero-gravity flight experience because he failed to attribute the source.

Taneja operates the Flying Beast YouTube channel. There, he posted two videos covering a zero-gravity flight experience. However, those videos used footage from Castrol’s marketing campaign without attribution. The footage was part of an April 2024 advertising campaign that featured video bloggers participating in the experience.

Taneja was one of the video bloggers chosen to partake in the experience. According to the agreement, Castrol agreed to pay for the experience as long as Taneja promoted the brand when using the footage. However, after the event, the two sides had a dispute over money Taneja used the footage without attribution. This prompted Castrol to file a copyright infringement lawsuit, leading to the injunction.

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