Od 1 października 2026 roku niemieckie zaświadczenie o niekaralności można zamówić w formie cyfrowego PDF, co potwierdza heise online. To najnowszy przykład szerszego trendu: instytucje i firmy przenoszą swoje usługi do internetu, ale płacą za to utratą kontroli nad fizycznymi nośnikami i danymi.
Maven Robotics says its mobile manipulators are now running 16 hours a day, five days a week, with up to 99% uptime, after raising $100 million since its 2024 founding and closing a Series A round last month. The Santa Clara company's account, published by The Robot Report on 1 October, lands in the same week as a €11 million European round for robot vision firm Inbolt and a forecast that physical AI will define 2027.
A Spanish figure skater won back the rights to skate to Minions music at the Winter Olympics. A German retailer went to court against Fender, and a Canadian legal database settled with an AI startup. None of these fights is really about piracy.
From songs pulled off YouTube to a Minions routine cleared for the Olympics, the copyright disputes of the past two years have been settled by platforms, sponsors and courts rather than by the law alone.
YouTube reached a new licensing deal with SESAC on Monday after hit songs vanished from YouTube and YouTube Music over the weekend, while a Spanish figure skater won late clearance for a Minions routine and Thomann took Fender to court.
A copyright dispute rarely stays inside a courtroom. It pulls songs off YouTube, forces figure skaters to rethink Olympic routines and turns a Canadian artist's glass domes into evidence in a fight against one of China's largest companies.
Thomann, the German music retailer, is suing Fender over the Stratocaster body shape. It is the first company to take the guitar maker to court after a default ruling in Dusseldorf opened the door to cease-and-desist letters across the EU. Four other disputes, from YouTube to figure skating, show how quickly a copyright fight can move from a legal footnote to a cancelled tour, a scrapped routine or a redesigned skylight.
Germany's largest music retailer is taking Fender to court over the Stratocaster, while the Dutch Supreme Court has asked the EU's top judges whether a VPN can break a copyright block. Here is what five disputes reveal about how copyright works now.
YouTube said on Monday it had reached a new licensing deal with SESAC and would restore music from Adele, Kendrick Lamar and others within "the next day or two", after hundreds of tracks vanished from YouTube and YouTube Music over the weekend.
A copyright dispute is rarely just about one song or one design. These five cases, from YouTube's SESAC takedowns to a legal database's fight with an AI startup, show how the same arguments keep resurfacing.
A copyright dispute can now stop an Olympic routine, silence a catalogue of hit songs, or decide whether an AI company can build a business on someone else's database. Recent cases show how far the arguments have spread beyond the music business.
A Spanish figure skater got his Minions routine back, and Fender now faces its first court challenge over the Stratocaster, as licensing battles spread into sport and retail.
A Spanish figure skater won back his Minions routine and a German retailer took Fender to court, while Canada's CanLII closed a case against an AI startup. Three disputes, one pattern: licensing systems built for a slower era are straining under modern use.
Songs by Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Nirvana and others vanished from YouTube and YouTube Music on Saturday, replaced by an error message naming the US performing rights organisation SESAC. A new licensing deal was announced on Monday.