TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

Then seemingly out of nowhere, in 2008/2009 the government began shutting down popular sites including Extremebits, Rapthe , Superfundo and later, LeechersLair. Excellent infrastructure and limited anti-piracy action made Malaysia a popular hosting location back when torrent sites were in their prime.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2024

Sony Wins Early But Cooler Heads Prevail Software quite rightly receives protection under copyright law but in Datel, Sony wants a ruling that outlaws the modification of variables generated by software that only ever exist in RAM and form no part of the underlying copyrighted source code.

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Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This was originally published on January 22, 2009: Working from home today after a bruising few weeks at work (see yesterday’s post!), The post Best of 2009: “Adverference?” I finally figured out what was going on. ” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Photo by Rocco Dipoppa on Unsplash The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (REULA) came into force on 1 January 2024 and has some significant implications for IP law. Much IP law in the UK is derived from EU law – both implemented EU law and case law decided in view of EU law.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2023

Founded in 2009, the file-sharing and hosting platform grew out to become one of the country’s most-visited websites. This didn’t go unnoticed by copyright holders, including the RIAA, who repeatedly complained about widespread piracy on the platform. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 27, 2022

Posted on August 6, 2009. Traverse Legal: Mary Roach has a great post at CircleID on an area that we have talked about extensively, namely, copyright takedowns under the Digital Millennium Copyright. The post Best of 2009: The DMCA and the search engine appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Introduction The principle of the first sale doctrine is a basic precept of copyright law allowing the lawful possessor of a copyrighted work to resell, lend, or distribute that work without the permission of the copyright holder. Conclusion The digital-first sale doctrine remains an open area of copyright law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, the CJEU is yet to clarify the copyright law-relevant meaning of “pastiche”, pending the current reference in the Pelham II case, which aims to shed light on whether pastiche could serve as a “catch-all” provision for artistic use of copyright-protected works (see e.g. here ). A solution?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Following their victory at the local elections, the Swedish Pirate Party secured a seat at the European Parliament in 2009, with another one being added a year later. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more. But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement right off the bat.

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Likelihood of Confusion

JUNE 14, 2023

The post Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury, Part 1 appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. A lot of people, including judges, lawyers and civilians, don’t seem to really understand what statutory damages are all about. They are not supposed to be a windfall (discussed more.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Emily Prieur is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. . In 2009, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) mass-produced sweaters as part of their official merchandise for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Current State of the Law on Tattoo Designs. Photo By Andrej Lišakov ( Unsplash ).

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. copyright law, a particularly confusing subject for foreign works published before 1978. copyright law. Copyright Act of 1909. law, the U.K.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Customers are not prosecuted, they do not make copyrighted material available, which is one of the requirements to be a violation of copyright law,” says Brita Wallström who works with the police’s National Operational Department (NOA). Instead, Wallström says that for users, it’s a moral issue.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 16, 2022

Posted November 24, 2009. Yes, people do have some funny ideas of what kinds of things to protect with copyright, don’t they? The post Best of 2009: They always get their man appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. A few years ago, criminal enterprise Milberg.

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IPilogue

MAY 18, 2022

Mariela Gutierrez Olivares is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the EU, a 2009 court ruling established a test that describes originality as requiring an “author’s own intellectual creation.” Pina D’Agostino. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies prevail all around us.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Originally posted 2009-11-24 17:22:33. Republished by Blog Post PromoterYehuda Berlinger, whose poetic version of the Lanham Act we linked to anon, also did the Copyright Act last summer. Somehow I missed it, but since then I’ve been doing a lot more copyright litigation anyway, so I can use it now.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 1, 2025

Arnav is a 3rd Year Law student from Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. He’s interested in Narratives and the Law, along with supporting local independent bookstores. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions there we have none. Virginia Woolf, How Should One Read a Book?,

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As it is discussed at greater length elsewhere ( here ), TDM is an example of an area in which legislative intervention has been broadly justified by reference to the need of freeing up certain copyright-covered spaces to facilitate research and increase innovation and competitiveness. Broadening the UK E&L?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the time, similar services were also being offered by several of Finland’s internet service providers but for the members of the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC, also known as TTVK), this was a serious breach of copyright law.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 27, 2024

In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. Kuik started his professional career at CIC Video International , shortly after he graduated from law school 42 years ago. In part, perhaps, because BREIN often found the law on its side in courts.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Launched around 2009, Hellspy and Hellshare had successfully weathered the Megaupload storm. Not Yet… According to an entry dated October 31, 2022, on the Official Journal of the European Union, the Supreme Court in Prague is currently seeking advice from the EU Court to help determine the outcome of an important copyright case.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We, who have been writing and teaching about copyright law and how it has responded to challenges posed by new technologies for decades, were among those who submitted comments, see [link]. In addition, conduct that may be consistent with the copyright laws nevertheless may violate Section 5. That is far too hasty.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Photo by Udo Pohlmann via Pixabay Over the last decades, European lawyers got used to the – at times remarkable and even forceful – interventions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in copyright law. The Safarov case In 2009, Safarov authors a book. For now, Luxemburg and Strasburg case law are not in conflict.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 12, 2024

To protect the right of creators, Copyright law was introduced, fostering creative innovation. Copyright Law and Insufficient Injunctions The British Statute of Anne, 1710, was the first copyright statute. Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, 11, 179-204. link] Sareen, M. K., & Kalra, K.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. — Of course, no state law claim is exactly the same as a copyright claim.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

OCTOBER 28, 2012

A student from Thailand whose search for inexpensive college textbooks has now led to a legal battle involving federal copyright law that could determine the legal rights of Americans to sell thousands of used products on eBay, Craigslist and at garage sales and flea markets, as well. By: Sharon Urias, Esq.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Originally posted 2009-12-22 17:19:47. This Copywrite blog is really good. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post Copywrite appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Overall, with layers of intrigue, secrecy, and questionable practices, the complex relationship between IP law, CSIR, and the ever-present quest for accountability is worth remembering when thinking of the larger scheme of IP things. IP, trade, and Customs: As I trawled through the past posts, a 2009 post caught my attention: ‘twas Prof.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2023

The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act of 1988 in the United Kingdom specifies in Section (1)(1)(a) that copyright exists in “original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic works.” In law, the quality of an idea’s expression is given more weight. can have copyright. It must be the author’s original work.

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The TTABlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Barrie's Peter Pan , first staged in 1904, and so the parties were in agreement that under copyright law, both the name and the character are in the public domain. It has used TINKER BELL as a trademark for dolls since 2007 and registered the mark in 2009 without a Section 2(f) acquired distinctiveness claim.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 4, 2021

The presence of cryptocurrency is constantly growing, and therefore, it needs the law to transform along with it to address its administration and execution. Several courts have had trouble in applying substantive Trademark Law to this field of technology. Can Cryptocurrencies be Protected under the Trademark Law?

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

We’re pleased to bring you a guest post from Akshat Agrawal on a recent order that raised questions on the extent / limitations of the exemptions and limitations to Indian copyright law. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? You can see his previous posts for us here. In Ashdown v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In its judgment of 1 September 2022, the Court determines that Azerbaijan failed to enforce copyright in respect of the unlawful digital reproduction and communication of a published book. The decisions rendered by national courts must apply national law correctly and cannot be “arbitrary or otherwise manifestly unreasonable”.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If you wonder how to protect one's own image, join our online event hosted by international law firm Bird & Bird LLP on 30 October 2024, from 18:00 to 19:30 CET. The People, Plants, and the Law lecture series will begin this week. The People, Plants, and the Law lecture series will begin this week. 4 of Regulation 207/2009.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Originally posted 2009-08-27 17:38:37. At the time, Flickr claimed it had acted on advice of counsel due to legal issues involving copyright […] The post No joke appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Retroactive and Prospective Assignment Agreement A prospective transfer of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is dependent on the occurrence of future events and is most commonly used in copyright law. Indian Scenario The Indian IP law does not explicitly recognize nor bar the existence of nunc pro tunc assignment agreements.

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