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Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules

TorrentFreak

According to Ziggo, linking IP addresses to specific subscribers raises serious privacy concerns, even if the personal information isn’t shared with BREIN. This means that linking an IP address to subscriber information would violate Dutch privacy law, which is based on the European GDPR. BREIN didn’t give up, however.

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Book review: Performers' Rights

The IPKat

The book covers the rights of performers, particularly the rights conferred under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). In addition, the book contains chapters on related rights such as moral rights, civil and criminal proceedings, contracts and other forms of protection. What about a juggler?

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How Generative AI Generates Legal Issues in the Games Industry

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Music, film, art, comic books, and literary works are some other uses. What are the privacy implications? The first two test tools create generative AI content from a text prompt and enable generative AI to complete computer code. AI tools are powerful and their use will no doubt be far reaching.

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Deepfakes and Personality Rights: The Need for codifying Personality Rights.

IP and Legal Filings

1] And since, the creator, consumer and subject of the content are distinctly different-the potential lack of empathy or misapprehension by the consumers towards the subject, based on the creators potrayal, necessitate a discussion of the subjects privacy and personality rights.

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Media Laws, Rights & Privacy Of Celebrities

IP and Legal Filings

Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy. Licensing It denotes that the film is based on a previously published novel, book, or artistic work. Celebrities have objected to this because it interferes with their personal lives and their right to privacy.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights 2nd Edition

SpicyIP

The book, a follow on edition from the 2012 1st edition of Overlapping IP Rights is once again a masterclass in thinking through the oft under discussed spheres of overlaps in IP, this time with additional subject areas and updated developments. Therefore, necessitating study of these overlaps in pairs of IP rights as furthered by the book.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. Chapter 20, by Maximilian Becker, addresses the overlap between trade secrets and privacy.