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DMCA Notices Took Down 31,151 GitHub Projects Last Year

TorrentFreak

GitHub , home to hundreds of millions of code repositories, takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the world. Like other platforms that host user-generated content, this massive code library occasionally runs into copyright infringement issues. Pirate Troubles One of the ‘pirate’ issues GitHub faces is a constant stream of scammy pirate advertisements posted to the site.

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The benefits and pitfalls of drug manufacturing IP (T 2543/22)

The IPKat

The Board of Appeal decision in T 2543/22 relates to a manufacturing method for preparing a therapeutic peptide. The Board of Appeal found that whilst various methods were known, the skilled person would not have had a reasonable expectation of success in applying them to produce the specific claimed peptide. The case highlights some interesting aspects of pharma IP strategy, particularly as related to manufacturing IP and whether this is best protected with patents or trade secrets.

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A scroll in the desert

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2006-11-09 23:09:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Rebecca Tushnet gives us the blow-by-blow on the fight over the copyright in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Any juxtaposition of brilliant and talented graverobber Hershel Shanks and hereditary monarch David Nimmer is worth taking a look at. The post A scroll in the desert appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION.

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Rock on – Court of Appeal dismisses appeal against High Court’s refusal to strike out claims in Jimi Hendrix Experience litigation

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image by ReneSchulze1984 from Pixabay In Noel Redding Estate Ltd & Anor v Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 66, the Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against the High Courts refusal to grant summary judgment or strike out copyright and performers rights claims regarding the exploitation of the studio albums of eponymous rock band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (JHE).

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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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Pfizer v. Softgel: The Errors of Comity

SpicyIP

A still from the song “Yeh Dosti” from the Hindi film Sholay. Image from here On January 28, the Madras High Court passed an order related to an ongoing patent dispute in the United States. The dispute concerned Ciplas and Zenara (Hikma)s ANDA applications seeking approval to market their generic versions of Vyndamax (tafamidis), a drug used to treat transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), in the US.