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‘Valorant Mobile’ Leaks Excite Gamers But ‘Pirate’ Copies Are Bad News

TorrentFreak

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams. Riot Games Uses Copyright Law to Unmask Uploader.

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Can Tattoos Infringe Copyrights, and If So, What Happens Then?–Sedlik v. Kat Von D

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Even so, the court’s almost-banal treatment of this super-interesting topic suggests that there may not be much tattoo exceptionalism in copyright law. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” Market Effect. Copyright in Tattoos.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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“Right to Access a Public Record” vs “Right to not Communicate the Work”: Where is Public Interest?”

SpicyIP

In Rajeev Kumar vs Jamia Millia Islamia (12th April 2021), an extremely interesting tussle was seen with the copyright over a thesis being pitted against a person’s right to obtain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Degrees) Regulations, 2016 which mandates the submission of an electronic copy of the Ph.

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Patentability of Food Recipes and the Section 3(e) Challenge

IIPRD

In terms of preparation, it is similar to other ready-to-eat soup mixes available in the market but what makes it different from the rest is its contents and the combination of materials used. After the Patent Amendment Act 2005, patent protection for food, pharma and chemical inventions is possible but this concept not very popular in India.

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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

The IPKat

Here's what Bill writes: Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’ by Bill Patry The IPKat blog inspired my own copyright blog which I started in 2005, 2 years after the first meow from London. No copyright law in the world is founded on natural law.