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ICANN Simplifies Requests For Hidden Domain Name Registration Data

TorrentFreak

That included those whose names appeared in public WHOIS databases as registrants or owners of domains. “Due to personal data protection laws, many ICANN-accredited registrars are now required to redact personal data from public records, which was previously available in ‘WHOIS’ databases,” ICANN explained.

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The FAIR Principles are vital to enabling the use of data, not just for people, but more importantly for machines.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

We write to inform those wary of the potential for a new sweeping WIPO Internet treaty to take note. No amendment offered in public session. If a 3 -step test is included, it could be designed to expand the flexibility, not shrink it. 5- National Treatment Paragraph 5.2 Brazil proposed restoration of TPM exception. [1]

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

AR involves overlaying the user’s view of (actual) reality with digital information and/or data – think Instagram filters; VR allows the user to experience and interact with a simulation projected on a head-mounted display as if it were their reality. The legal concerns aside, the use of AR and VR in museums arguably benefits the public.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies.

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

Patently-O

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” And, in addition the court noted that trade secrets protect a “most fundamental human right, that of privacy.”

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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs

LexBlog IP

Under both the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (adopted by every state but New York) and the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act , the owner of a trade secret must make reasonable efforts to maintain the secrecy of the information the owner wishes to protect. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.