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1: Egyptian Court Sentences StreamEast Operators to Prison for Piracy

First off today, Matthew Keys at The Desk reports that the Cairo Economic Court in Egypt has sentenced two operators of the illegal sports streaming site StreamEast to two years in prison.

When operating, StreamEast used approximately 80 domains and received more than 1.6 billion visits per year. However, in 2025, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) managed to get the network shut down, resulting in the arrest of the two men.

In addition to the two years in prison, the court also ordered them to pay fines of EGP 5.5 million ($110,000) and ordered the confiscation of equipment used in the operation, including computers, phones and servers that were seized during the investigation.

2: Indian Court Says OpenAI Did Not Violate News Agency ANI’s Copyright

Next up today, Reuters reports that, in India, an Indian court has said that OpenAI’s use of news content to train its AI systems did not amount to copyright infringement.

The lawsuit was brought by the news agency ANI in November 2024, which claimed that OpenAI had infringed on their copyright by using their news content to train its AI systems. However, according to the court, ANI had failed to show that ChatGPT had memorized or reproduced any of their news reports to end users.

As such, the court found that OpenAI’s use of the news content was protected under the country’s fair dealing provisions. The ruling is the first substantive court decision on the matter in India.

3: Indonesia Scraps Song and Music Copyright Registration Fee to Build a National Music Database

Finally today, Mandy Dalugdug at Music Business Worldwide reports Indonesia has done away with its copyright registration fees in order to boost registration to the country’s national copyright register.

The announcement came earlier this month from the Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI). Previously, registering a work with the database cost 200,000 rupiah ($11). The law changes will reduce that cost to zero. Currently, the database only contains about 26,000 tracks and only sees regular participation from 2 of the country’s 17 collecting societies.

The issue is that the registration is not required under Indonesian law. However, the database does help with tracking ownership, licensing and other issues. The government hopes that this will help onboard the other 15 collecting societies and greatly increase the size and usefulness of the database.

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