TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Reforming media legislation is just part of Ukraine’s path to EU membership and during the summer, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed new legislation to update Ukraine’s advertising environment to standards required by the EU. Law of Ukraine No. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government deployed disturbing anti-democratic tactics by repeatedly cutting off debate on Bill C-11 in both the House of Commons and during clause-by-clause review of the bill. Who is the government blocking from potentially appearing by shutting down committee hearings?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

This procedure allows the Government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to regulate dominant tech firms, ensuring fair competition and consumer protection. As part of the investigation, the Government requested input from stakeholders on Googles search dominance and its effects, both positive and negative.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada. While this is a far better outcome than the blocked links, this is hardly an example of good government policy.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2023

Introduction The promotion of products through defamatory or misleading remarks about the competitor’s product, known as “product disparagement,” can lead to legal disputes, blurring the line between this and comparative advertising. To prevent legal disputes, caution must be exercised to differentiate between the two.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As some have noted , the government says the companies are stealing content if they link and blocking content if they don’t. It's about them reselling the data from your online activity to advertisers. But the government has instead chosen payments for links in Bill C-18. It's not about the clicks.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Government’s Patent and Trademark Office to help tackle live-streaming piracy. Together with the NBA and UFC, the football league asked the government to make DMCA takedown requests more effective. This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised. Last year, the NFL asked the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Advertising/E-Commerce. While such social media posts may not have the indicia of a traditional advertisement, there can belittle doubt that these paid posts are in fact advertisements… Today, consumers face waves of advertisements amid a sea of product choices. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp.,

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Comparative advertising is an effective marketing technique, in which a company’s product or service is compared to its competitor’s. Despite these advantages, comparative advertising is a dangerous field to navigate from a legal perspective. Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. .

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IPilogue

MARCH 22, 2023

According to the complaint, BetterHelp used and revealed consumers’ email addresses, IP addresses, and health questionnaire information to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest for advertising purposes”, including “identify[ing] similar consumers and target[ing] them with advertisements for BetterHelp’s counseling service.”

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2024

” Cloudflare and DDos-Guard Proxy services and CDN providers are called out specifically. Linking and Streaming Websites Priority sites – Fmovies.to – Vegamovies – Cuevana3.biz/eu net, dytt89.com, com, dy2018.net, net, dy2018.com, com, dydytt.net, and ygdy8.com levidia.ch/to IO Registry –.CC CC Registry – ME Registry –.RU

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has submitted a list of so-called ‘Notorious Markets’ to the US government.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Introduction Corporate governance generally refers to how organisations are directed, managed, controlled, and held responsible to its shareholders. India is a popular location for investments, thus in order to attract the largest investment ever, we need to strengthen the governance standards.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The question that arises with the development of such technology is regarding the legal governance of the same. Which field of law will govern such digital assets and the NFT technology? In this paper, it is argued that Private-property law must be the field of law governing transactions involving Non-Fungible Tokens.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 13, 2024

For the better part of two years, a steady parade of government ministers and MPs insisted that user content regulation was out of the bill even as a plain reading made it clear that it was in. Yet the government consistently denied that conclusion over the objections of many experts throughout the legislative process.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 16, 2024

“Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of the State government.” ~ Jim Costa The statement above elucidates succinctly that how tribes of India get treated within our nation. which need to be protected, are all at the mercy of the ruling governments. percent of the total population of Madhya Pradesh.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The seventh installment of the Government-backed anti-piracy sweep, details of which were released in September , took down 675 pirate sites, 14 apps, and led to nine arrests. The movie industry group also encourages the government to approve a bill that criminalizes camcording in theaters, even when there’s no profit motive.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Lynd advertised the Product as effective against the coronavirus. Ultimately, AHBP took an exclusive license to sell the product in Argentina, with purchasing and advertising/marketing spend minimums. the Lanham Act false advertising claim survived. And proximate cause?

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 24, 2023

Yet the CBC’s approach to Bill C-18 and other government digital policies seems determined to do the opposite and, in doing so, threatens its future support. In fact, the letter may be less about Facebook blocking news links when communities went days without Internet access and more about an effort to curry favour with the government.

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Michael Geist

MAY 6, 2023

In addition, it passed a resolution to develop “truth in political advertising” legislation to be administered by an oversight body. When the government first ventured into support for the media sector, it did so lightly, recognizing the risks of government intervention with the media. It does not end there. It must stop.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. It is sad that as the bill nears passage, the government doesn’t seem to understand or misleads on the impact of its own legislation.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Indeed, when combined with the controversial Section 7(7) of the bill, it suggests that the government envisions a permanent erosion of the independence of the broadcast regulator in Canada. Funny coincidence the same question with nearly the same language used by the two government leaders at their respective committees weeks apart.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Canada’s digital policy has seemingly long proceeded on the assumption that tech companies would draw from an unlimited budget to write bigger cheques to meet government regulation establishing new mandated payments. Meanwhile, the Google money remains in limbo as the sector awaits CRTC approval over the governance of its distribution.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

According to the Indian government, the new policy takes effect June 27. However, 18 months ago, the site removed all advertising and sought to keep itself afloat with donations. However, since VPNs are commonly used as a way to ensure privacy while engaging in pirate activities, it could definitely have impacts there.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

The stated purpose of WIPO ALERT, to help advertisers avoid pirate sites, has remained substantially unchanged since its 2019 launch. In an announcement this week, CNCP said it had submitted another 7,931 domains subject to local blocking orders to the central WIPO ALERT database.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

As a result, government agencies overseeing telecoms and cinemas have come together to create a cooperative plan, one that mimics the approach taken in Portugal. A similar bid against the stream-ripping site Yout the next year was more successful, but still left many wanting a more robust system.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

They further claim that the song was also featured in advertisements for the device, furthering the alleged infringement. The rightsholders may be able to get at least some of that money from assets seized by the government as part of the ongoing criminal case. The lawsuit also Kano Computing Ltd., 3: Filmmakers Win $4.2m

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

While the government is still talking tough, the law has been an utter disaster, leading to millions in lost revenues with cancelled deals, reduced traffic for Canadian media sites, declining investment in media in Canada, and few options to salvage this mess. The group is seeking government tax credits equal to 35% of labour costs.

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Michael Geist

MAY 5, 2023

The proposal, purportedly aimed at addressing misinformation, calls for more government funding for the media and that the government explore options to “hold on-line information services accountable for the veracity of material published on their platforms and to limit publication only to material whose sources can be traced.”

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Michael Geist

JULY 10, 2023

Faced with the prospect of Meta and Google’s recent announcements that they would block news links in order to comply with the legislation, it would appear that the government has caved on the bill as it searches for a face-saving compromise. There are several aspects of this proposed regulatory process that merit comment.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After months of urging Heritage Ministers Pascale St-Onge and Pablo Rodriguez to stand up to Google and Meta’s response to Bill C-18, News Media Canada – the lead lobbyist for the legislation – appears to have waved the surrender flag as it is now urging the government to accommodate Google’s concerns with draft regulations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act “requires Meta to maintain certain records of the political advertisements it hosts on its platforms and, when requested, to permit inspection of, or to disclose, such records to those seeking such information.” The state can extract this information from political advertisers.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Introduction Trademark law is mainly governed by two key principles: “first to file” and “first to use.” Because the big company has more resources for marketing and advertising, it overwhelms the smaller business’s brand identity. This case set the foundation for recognizing reverse confusion under U.S.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Government which launched a criminal prosecution of three group members. The Government saw him as part of the Team-Xecuter conspiracy. Among other things, he allegedly advertised and trafficked circumvention devices, while maintaining regular contact with resellers throughout the world. soon after. Bowser Pleads Guilty.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 8, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez appeared last night before the Senate committee studying Bill C-18, facing repeated questions about how his government will respond if Internet platforms such as Facebook block news sharing in response to bill’s system of mandated payments for links. This just isn’t true. How to reconcile?

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 4, 2021

With a reach of a billion users and 10,000 new advertising campaigns per week, PropellerAds is a major player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world. Many of these are legitimate companies, but there are likely some bad apples in the bunch too.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 31, 2024

The government has called the bill “fundamentally flawed”, but there may be sufficient House support to turn it into binding legislation. The Digital Governance Council is one of several Jim Balsillie-led organizations focused on influencing government digital and innovation policy.

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