TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2024

If 2009 sounds like it happened half a lifetime ago, many 30 year-olds would likely agree. At the time the UK government was taking advice from the entertainment industries on how to tackle surging piracy via the BitTorrent protocol. Presented as an entirely proportionate and reasonable response for dealing with habitual downloaders, disconnecting entire households from the internet loomed ominously on the horizon.

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Music Blogging Fair Use Government 122

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

by guest blogger Franklin Graves This week, I joined 100 other creators and creator economy professionals in attending the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference. The event, which I recapped in more detail for another publication, presented an interesting set of questions and opportunity for future development of the conversation around an economy that Goldman Sachs predicts to reach $480 billion by 2027.

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Blogging Reporting Privacy Branding 102

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) held in a precedential decision Friday that Platinum Optics Technology, Inc. (PTOT) had failed to establish an injury in fact sufficient to confer standing to appeal from a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision that found PTOT hadn’t proven claims of Viavi Solutions, Inc.’s patent unpatentable.

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Designs Design Technology Patent 65

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

Image via flickr Introduction This two-part blog post is aiming to explain what Rights Retention is and how it works in practice. In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works. These are technicalities that must be explained beforehand for readers to easily understand the second part, in which I’ll explain how rights retention strategy was designed and implemented to limit th

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Journalism Publishing Contracts Copyright 61

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 18, 2024

Originally posted 2014-01-03 09:49:02. Republished by Blog Post PromoterHere’s what you missed if you’re not yet floating in my social cloud: @VenerAbility: “The twin forces which could destroy Twitter are immature game-playing and PC taken to extremes.”[link] @MegLG When trade marks go bad: Hells Angels lose bid to have logo items returned [link] @cyberlaw More SCO […] The post The week in tweets appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Blogging 52

Patently-O

AUGUST 18, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The recent Federal Circuit decision in Platinum Optics v. Viavi Solutions focuses attention once again on the case-and-controversy requirement derived from Article III of the U.S. Constitution, which extends federal judicial power to “Cases” and “Controversies.” The seemingly simple phrase has been the subject of extensive judicial jockeying in the development of the doctrine we know as “standing.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that f

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Patent 49