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How South Africa Handles Notice and Takedown

Plagiarism Today

They too have a notice and takedown regime, part of their Electronic Communications and Transactions Act of 2002 (PDF), but the implementation of it is very different from that of the United States or the European Union. These types of questions aren’t necessary on a form for just reporting copyright infringement.

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Copyright versus privacy: the CJEU rules that access by a public authority to data associated with an IP address can be justified

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As a result of this judgment, ARCOM, the French regulatory authority that fights online copyright infringement (see here ), can continue to fight unlawful downloading (see here ). More generally, this decision was very well received in France.

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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally

TorrentFreak

When Bram Cohen released the first version of BitTorrent in 2002, it sparked a file-sharing revolution. Those who know how to create a Docker container can have an instance up and running in minutes and for the privacy conscious, the docker-compose file on GitHub supports VPNs via Gluetun.

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2021 IP Year in Review

IPilogue

This article summarizes the top developments reported on our blog and in patents, trademarks, and copyright law in 2021. For a review of Privacy legislation in Canada, check out Emily Prieur’s article published this week. Keep Calm and Fandom On: Copyright in Cosplay, Fanfiction and Fanart by Sabrina Macklai & Emily Chow.

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Generative AI and creativity: A quick analysis of US and Canadian copyright registrations for artistic works

Kluwer Copyright Blog

While not a precondition of ownership, both jurisdictions encourage registration in various ways: in the US, registration is required for domestic copyright owners to initiate copyright infringement actions; in Canada, registration is evidence of ownership in infringement cases.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. With that said, the Ninth Circuit did some serious hand-waving on the privacy issues. case in 2002 to the Points Guy case in 2022.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

SpicyIP

Case Summaries Abbott Healthcare Private Limited vs Vinsac Pharma on 17 February, 2025 (Delhi High Court) Abbott Healthcare sued two defendants for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming they deceptively copied its well-known LIMCEE Vitamin C tablets by selling LIMEECEE with similar packaging. Read the post for more details.