TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

India’s Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill was first introduced in 2019 with the aim of updating the Cinematograph Act, 1952, to better protect filmmakers. In April 2023, India’s Union Cabinet gave the bill a green light and during July it was passed by both Houses of Parliament. The primary goal of these amendments is to reduce rampant online movie piracy, but also contains measures related to the certification of films.

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Social Media Government Copyright Copying 118

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

This is a review of Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor by Glyn Moody. Glyn Moody says about the book: “Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up.

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Copying Copyright Music Plagiarism 85

Likelihood of Confusion

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Here’s a very good article by Arnold & Porter’s Randy Miller, strictly for trademark lawyers and those who encamp around them, on the Advertising Compliance website run by my old friend. The post Survey says… appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Advertising Advertising Trademark False Advertising 64

SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

IP lawyers would agree that local commission plays an extremely important role in IP litigation by assisting the court in securing evidence against the allegation of infringement. Highlighting potential vulnerabilities in executing a local commission and discussing the solutions to overcome them, we are pleased to bring to you a co-authored post by Rohit Pradhan and Brahmakrit Rao Gadela.

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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?

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