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Piracy Warning For Russian Cinemas as Legal Streaming Revenues Skyrocket

TorrentFreak

Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Universal left the Russian market, some celebrated their exit as a positive for local cinema. By the end of 2023, analysts claimed that Hollywood movies made available via ‘shadow distribution’ accounted for 20% of all box office revenues ; others believed it could’ve been as much as a third.

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Special 301 Report 2023: Reflections from Public Health Perspective

SpicyIP

Image from the Report The US Trade Representative (USTR) released the Special 301 Report for 2023 on April 26, 2023, and has placed India in the ‘Priority Watch List’, yet again. Prabhat Kumar Saha highlighting certain concerns of the USTR in the 2023 Special 301 Report and assessing the same from a public health perspective.

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2023 Emoji Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2023, I logged 225 such cases (this number will grow a bit due to lags with the electronic databases). The 2023 count represented a 17% increase over the 2022 count. 2023 marked a significant milestone: my census now counts over 1,000 total U.S. Ballenger, 2023 U.S. I continue to maintain my census of U.S.

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Cyntec Company, Ltd. v. Chilisin Electronics Corp., Chilisin America Ltd. Nos. 2022-1873, (Fed. Cir. October 16, 2023)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

To prove damages at trial, Cyntec presented a market-share lost profits theory, alleging that 27 companies purchased Chilisin’s accused chokes outside the United States and then imported devices including the chokes into the United States. He then applied Cyntec’s market share to this revenue to yield an estimate of Cyntec’s lost sales.

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CCC at the Charleston Conference 2023

Velocity of Content

On 27 November, The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023 will be featured as a Virtual Poster Session.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. In 2023, the EU launched its Digital Services Act.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

The IPKat

Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2023! Regulation, Innovation and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets, by Margherita Colangelo. Please note: Some nominations do not appear in the list above: exclusions were made for example for not being a book about IP Law, or not being published in 2023.