TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

This clearly didn’t go down well with the Genshin XYZ team who responded with a DMCA takedown notice claiming that the cracker was infringing on their intellectual property rights. “The original software is a DLL which we publish inside a DLL loader programmed by us in C# with VMProtection.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) regularly conducts studies to see how piracy develops over time. Finally, in France publishing piracy, which includes manga, is relatively popular with 37% of all visits. In Malta, this goes up to 61%, while it’s ‘only’ 42% in France.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 2, 2025

The law of copyright regulates the activities of copying and disseminating the words of someone who has copyright over something online without that person’s consent. A person is the owner of the copyright when they publish any creative work on social networking sites. Vs Myspace Inc & Anr. 2017) 236 DLT 478 (DB). [1]

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The IPKat

JANUARY 13, 2022

While the tokenization of IP, namely for anti-counterfeiting purposes , was already outlined by the European Intellectual Property Office several years ago, WIPO sees potential applications of blockchain technology in IP ecosystems for "[a]ll types of IP assets: Registered and Unregistered Rights".

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 16, 2021

Already, the government is considering post-Brexit changes to copyright that authors and publishers fear may hit them hard. In June, the UK’s Intellectual Property Office announced it will look at changes to the exhaustion of intellectual property rights. Why would it be so impactful?

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IPilogue

APRIL 29, 2022

Founded in 1984, the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ) covers matters relating to all aspects of Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, trade secrets, and related areas such as privacy. Copy of your resume and grades.

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IPilogue

MAY 20, 2022

Founded in 1984, the Intellectual Property Journal (IPJ) covers matters relating to all aspects of Intellectual Property such as patents, trademarks, copyright, designs, trade secrets, and related areas such as privacy. Copy of your resume and grades. We thank all applicants for their interest.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. The mentioned publishing sites, LibGen and Sci-Hub, didn’t change either. — A copy of the USTRs 2024 Review of Notorious Markets is available here (pdf).

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Understanding Mask Work. Inspection of a Registered Mask Work. government.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 15, 2022

We are pleased to bring you a guest post by Mili Baxi, on the development of a publisher’s right in digital media. Her areas of interest are Information Technology law, Intellectual Property law, Media & Communication Law, and human rights law. . European Union and Australian Approach for Press Publishers’ Interest.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Traditionally, the purchase of the tangible copy of a work afforded the buyer or every lawful acquirer of the tangible copy the possibility to enjoy the work as long as the physical object incorporating the work exists. However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, according to statistics released by China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), an average time to prosecute patent applications filed under PPH, from initial filing to receiving a final decision (e.g., allowance or abandonment), is approximately 11.9 European Union.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2025

DeepSeek Anna’s Archive This week, hundreds of new articles were published on the latest AI model released by the Chinese company DeepSeek. “We cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from Annas Archive,” a DeepSeek VL paper , published last March, states.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

Next up today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Meta has failed to get a lawsuit against them dismissed as a sculptor who sued the company over allegations that that counterfeiters have copied and reposted her photos in Facebook ads. The lawsuit was filed by JL Cook, a sculptor that specializes in snakes and other reptiles.

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43(B)log

MAY 16, 2024

Law school students are encouraged to submit papers relating to topics involving intellectual property law. Articles must be written or published between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2024. Articles must be submitted to the Boston Intellectual Property Law Association on or before September 30, 2024.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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The IPKat

MARCH 22, 2023

The book - titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. Twenty Years of The IPKat - will be published in May by Oxford University Press (OUP). The goods news of the day is that there is now a 30% discount code available to use for those interested in purchasing their own copy (or copies!)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2022

When movies are recorded directly from cinema screens, the resulting pirate copy is known as a ‘cam’, regardless of the device used – camcorder or otherwise. Our report published late November provides more detail and last week an FDA/FCPA newsletter dated December 20 ( pdf ) confirmed events as reported.

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IIPRD

JUNE 26, 2024

Since the content generated by them is based on their creative intellect, the content is protected by intellectual property rights. Although it is very easy to gain popularity and accessibility, influencers are getting more and more venerable to violations involving intellectual property rights.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is a book review of “ Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy ”, edited by Péter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, and Anett Pogácsás. Details ISBN: 978-90-04-68620-5 (Hardback) 978-90-04-68621-2 (E-Book) Publication Date: 2024 Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff Extent: xvi, 420 pp. A meow-velous cover!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

According to Article 16 EU DSM Directive 2019/790 (“DSM Directive”), a “publisher” may have a claim to a share of the author’s statutory remuneration claims – such as fair compensation for private copies – if the author has granted the “publisher” a right in his work. But who is this “publisher”?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

Ever since its launch in 2009, rightsholders have complained that file-hosting platform 1fichier.com fails to take intellectual property rights seriously. The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

It is a common practice to make copies of deteriorating or far away cultural heritage. As of 2022, it is not even a new idea to use digital methods to copy heritage, considering that the mass digitisation of cultural heritage, especially books, started more than two decades ago. Photo by awsloley via Pixabay.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While studies have found the opposite is true with the company’s algorithms more likely to amplify right wing voices, the suggestion that governments or political parties should base their support for legislation on the perceived political leanings of Internet platforms or publishers is incredibly dangerous. Yet it never has.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are dozens of recognizable brands in the illegal streaming market, all jostling for position in a chaotic market where trademarks are copied even more readily than movies or live TV streams. report published late Wednesday identifies Javier Eduardo López Cassan as the man arrested.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It is time to vote for your favourite intellectual property law books of 2023 in the annual IPKat Book of the Year Awards! The IPKat team continues to read and review as many brilliant IP books as possible, of which there are many, for the Kat community. Rules of Voting Only ONE vote per person.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Background Mr Safarov is the author of a book that was published in 2009. The following year, a youth NGO published an electronic version of that book on its website without the author’s permission. The copy was subsequently removed from the NGO’s website at Safarov’s request. Let’s see more in detail what happened.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This Kat continues her review of the “ Handbook of Intellectual Property Research ” (ed. published recently in open access (review of Parts I and II, here ). In Confucianism, imitation is viewed as a ‘noble art’ and is encouraged, which, the author says, may be reason behind a high number of copying and counterfeits in Asia.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Understanding Mask Work Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. government. Id, section 2407.2(C).

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Intepat

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As digital spaces grow in popularity, so do the stakes around intellectual property, particularly copyright. A prominent example involves the platform Roblox, which faced a lawsuit from the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) for hosting unlicensed songs, resulting in a $200 million settlement in 2021.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Citing data recently published by the European Intellectual Property Office, which found that piracy in the EU grew by 3.3 % in 2022, the CSD president said piracy remains a problem for sports groups like LaLiga and for governments around Europe. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Centre for Intellectual Property Research and Advocacy [CIPRA] of Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad is organizing its first blog writing competition in collaboration with us on the theme of Literature, Journalism and IP. The top two entries will be awarded with some cash prizes and also with a chance to be published on the blog!

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2023

An EU assessment published early 2021 identified many areas in need of attention ( pdf ). According to an EU statement dated January 2022, Moldova’s State Agency for Intellectual Property ( AGEPI ) responded with a new draft transposing nine EU directives in full and four EU directives in part.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union ( DG TAXUD ) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) recently released the first joint annual report on EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers,” U.S. As such, the site impacted the revenues of authors and publishers of millions of books. Attorney Breon Peace comments.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2022

Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated publishing industry individuals in order to have authors, including a Pulitzer prize winner, send him prepublication manuscripts for his own benefit. He was detained in connection with a years-long scheme to obtain novels and other literary works in electronic form before their commercial release.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

John Carroll University In February 2023, we first published a post describing the Complaint by Gina Weisblat ("Weisblat") against her former employer, John Carroll University ("JCU"). Case Closeout University,Work for Hire,Settled Out of Court,Private School Joshua Potter March 24, 10:09 AM March 24, 10:09 AM Weisblat v.

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