LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2023

According to Meta’s report, “to target businesses, malicious groups often first go after the personal accounts of people who manage or are connected to business pages and advertising accounts. ” The Meta report provides useful tools to guard against these attacks and responses in the event a device is affected. .”

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2024

As the owner of Denuvo, perhaps the most hated anti-piracy tech currently on the market, it probably didn’t come as a surprise. “Irdeto.com and it’s related assets (such as text, website design, and images) is our copyrighted corporate website. With no blanket of redactions, no wall-to-wall privacy service, Irdeto.fr

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In our latest Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the Senate-passed bill that includes nearly $2 billion in national cybersecurity funding, recent sanctions by the SEC on investment advisors and broker-dealers, a new initiative that aims to improve defense planning and information sharing between the public and private sectors, and more.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This action follows the FTC’s September publication of “ Bringing Dark Patterns to Light ,” a report demonstrating companies’ increased use of design practices known as “dark patterns” to influence consumers buying behavior (the “Staff Report”). The FTC’s latest enforcement action confirms that message. What are dark patterns?

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The IPKat

AUGUST 19, 2021

These recommendations are part of a Report of the Standing Committee, which recommended revising Indian’s IPR legislation to ‘extract benefits from AI’. The Report accordingly recommends amending Indian patent law, to make AI-generated works and AI solutions patentable. Kluwer Trademark Blog reported here on this ruling.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

False urgency is a marketing tactic that creates a false sense of scarcity to pressure consumers into making a purchase, often resulting in dark patterns, limited stock, and unexpected delivery. The DoCA had illustrated 10 practices as dark patterns. They are: 1.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 19, 2021

A class of plaintiffs sued the credit bureau TransUnion, alleging that they were improperly placed on a “watch list” that TransUnion offered to supplement credit reports. If “Joe Smith” was on the OFAC list, TransUnion flagged the credit reports of all Joe Smiths. The class consisted of approximately 8,000 members.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Many arrests have been reported too, not to mention anti-piracy action in the ‘ metaverse ‘, which may (or may not) yet exist. A reported 1.5 For owners of devices set for the market or even sitting at home, Anatel has just issued a reminder that illegal set-top boxes are punishable with a fine.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

When the report was published early December 2022, just one of the most popular apps was listed in the ‘Piracy Apps’ section. “Stakeholders from the audiovisual sector reported IPTV Smarters for inclusion in the Watch List as an IPTV turnkey solution from India,” the Commission wrote ( pdf ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

It hurts the kids by depriving them of valuable social outlets and educational resources; it hurts adults by requiring age (and likely identity) verification to sort the kids from adults; and the age/identity verification hurts both kids and adults by exposing them to greater privacy and security risks. What the Bill Says. Child = under 18.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. This slightly opens the door for other platforms to claim that their ToS protect different interests, such as users’ privacy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Why would any healthcare worker think it’s appropriate to send a diagnosis to anyone other than the patient or a person designated by the patient? Whatever the diagnosis was, ZD reported her consequences from the Facebook posting included: her fiancé broke up with her. I can think of a few potential privacy claims.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The bill is ostensibly designed to support Canadian creators, yet many fear it will do the opposite. The Price Waterhouse Coopers report involved a survey of 1,000 U.S. The Price Waterhouse Coopers report involved a survey of 1,000 U.S.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

NHTSA in one of its concluding reports held that its mostly the human choice or error that forms the crude margin of accidents on highways, amounting to as high as 94%. [1]. When Mahindra launched the XUV700 with autonomous driving features in India last year, there was a huge uproar in the Indian car market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve seen a flood of terrible Internet laws in the past few years, including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). Regulated expressive conduct The AADC frames itself a “privacy” law, but that’s always been a gross lie. [Sorry it’s take me this long to get this blog post off my desk.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. Also consider international markets.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words. The VPN review business is flourishing as well.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It claims to focus on “counterfeits” that could harm consumer “health and safety,” but those are both lies designed to make the bill seem narrower and more balanced than it actually is. However, this bill is itself a giant counterfeit. ” I mean, pretty much every physical product meets this definition, right?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Today’s example is AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Before we get overwhelmed by the bill’s details, I’ll highlight three crucial concerns: First, the bill pretextually claims to protect children, but it will change the Internet for EVERYONE. Age-Appropriate Design Code.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling. This doesn’t sound so great.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

Over time, several hundred domains reappeared online with similar branding, but none were as relevant or persistent as those previously removed from the market. “To close the website completely, avoiding the situation of it closing and then opening,” a local news outlet reported.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With around 90% of the search market, Google is regularly criticized by rightsholders for allowing infringing content to appear in its search results. It has removed billions of reported infringing links and since 2012 has been downranking pirate sites, something that hit torrent portals particularly hard. Whois Privacy Corp.,

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The case relates to CCDH reports showing Twitter’s struggles with hate speech and misinformation following Musk’s changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies. These reports allegedly caused advertisers to pause their Twitter advertising campaigns, starving Twitter of much-needed revenues. We need more of that.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Neutron – Technology & Marketing Law Blog [link] 2020-04-26 Changes Result in the Alberta Electronic Transactions Act Applying to Employment and Other Records [link] 2020-04-26 Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail (OUCH)-Wilson v.

Privacy 52

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Among many other things, such as security, social morality, unfair competition, data accuracy and privacy, the draft Regulation turns to two specific copyright aspects that are addressed in Article 7, namely providers’ liability for IP violations, and access to copyright-protected materials for data training.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Delhi High Court clarifies that for “lack of novelty” to be used as a defence against a Design infringement claim, the lack of novelty is to be seen as on the date of registration of design and not thereafter. Thus, there is no question of invasion of privacy or personal information of a third party being sought.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Many celebrities and high-profile figures have already signed up to the service, after proclaiming that they are “ditching Twitter” Meta, Instagram’s parent company, has promised that the platform is safer than the alternatives and takes user privacy incredibly seriously. But, just how safe is it for consumers and brands?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Trade secret law is credited with fostering innovation in the market and allowing entities to include a vast array of intellectual property rights under its umbrella. From an entity’s perspective, public participation enhances trust and helps them reach a larger and diverse market. This can occur at two levels of disclosure.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

In this post , Varsha Jhavar analyses the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report ’s (hereinafter the Report) recommendations for ‘revisiting of IPR legislations and implementing a strong IPR framework’ in order to ‘extract benefits from AI’. Other News from Around the World.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

HSI. * Furniture Retailer Enjoined from Sending eBay VeRO Notices–Design Furnishings v. Hawks. * New(ish) Report on 512 Takedown Notices. * Can 512(f) Support an Injunction? RIAA appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Universal. * YouTube Uploader Can’t Sue Sender of Mistaken Takedown Notice–Cabell v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Furthermore, by disregarding the compliance costs, the CPPA has denigrated/trivialized the important, complicated, and smart work of thousands of privacy professionals. We’ve had these transparency reports for over a year–is there any field data showing any benefit from the existing obligations? MCGA / #DefundCPPA.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

There have been reports on international developments, including on the US Copyright Office refusals to register AI-generated works [ here and here ] , alongside developments in the EU , China , Czechia and France. Does UK copyright law protection extend to computer-generated works which are not original?

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LexBlog IP

JULY 20, 2022

Every year since 2009, the United State Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has published a report that details actions the DOJ has taken to implement Title IV of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (“PRO IP Act”).

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A report on “IP Backed Financing – Overview of Trends” by Relecura shows that companies like General Motors, Avago, Alcatel Lucent, Kodak, Freescale, and Seagate have raised significant financing as collateral. The risks include unauthorised use and infringement, technological obsolescence, and the marketable nature of IP as collateral.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, regulated entities do not include review websites and “Comments incidental to content posted by an established and widely recognized media outlet, the primary purpose of which is to report news and current events.” Yost appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Kuklinski v.

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