TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Website blocking is the entertainment industry’s preferred anti-piracy strategy in dozens of countries. Targeting domain names of pirate sites can be an effective way to deter casual pirates. When a site can no longer be easily located, some users may give up, especially since Google now deindexes blocked domains as well. Popular pirate sites have been familiar with these measures for years now.
Patently-O
DECEMBER 17, 2023
by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has granted a large number of mandamus petitions in order to move cases out of Judge Alan Albright’s W.D.Tex. courtroom based upon the inconvenience felt by large multinational defendants. On December 14, 2023, the appellate court once again took the extraordinary step, this time on behalf of Samsung, of granting a petition for a writ of mandamus, ordering the infringement lawsuit to be transferred to the Northern District of California.
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TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Early December the English Premier League announced a new broadcasting rights deal worth a staggering £6.7 billion (US$8.5 billion). Running for four seasons from the 2025-26 campaign, the deal will see broadcasters Sky and TNT take the live games and the BBC continue with its popular highlights package. Amazon, which has been licensing Premier League games since 2019, hoping to drive customers towards its Prime service, wasn’t awarded a single match.
IP and Legal Filings
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Historical lookback The amendment to the existing copyright law act of 1957 was carried out owing to the sensitization of issue of copyright management and revenue sharing structure that is fair and reasonable to all owners and writers of filmed and recorded works. [i] One of the prime judgements that put the plan in action for the amendment was the Javed Akhtar v.
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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?
The IPKat
DECEMBER 17, 2023
While the year is coming to an end, the IP community has been busy planning lots of exciting events and opportunities for the New Year. Here are some of the things to look forward to in 2024: Framing IP Rights in Legal, Economic, and Cultural Settings Swansea University's Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law have announced the conference entitled “Framing IP Rights in Legal, Economic, and Cultural Settings,” which will take place on 12 - 13 June 2024.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Photo evan p. cordes on Flickr CC BY 2.0 DEED I Wonder … What if our “belief” in something turns into our “faith” in it? For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain.
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IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 17, 2023
On June 1, 2023, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened, providing a new venue for patent litigation across all 17 ratifying European Union member states. The court represents a significant shift in patent litigation in the EU, which is poised to impact the global patent strategy of U.S. and multinational companies. Through the European Patent Office (EPO), inventors have long been able to obtain patent protection across most of the EU through a single application.
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Cover page of “Turning Back the Pages of Time: An American History Library Book List” by Kathy Keller. Image from here [ This post is authored by Prachi Mathur and is part II of the three-part post on terms of copyright and translations. Prachi, who wrote this while interning with SpicyIP, is a Third-Year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore.
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 17, 2023
The Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Act 2020 (Cth) (Amending Act) came into force on 18 February 2020 and was designed to prevent illegal phoenixing activity. The Amending Act introduced reforms such as creditor-defeating disposition provisions to combat phoenixing activity. Additional provisions amending the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) were aimed to encourage accountability by [.
SpicyIP
DECEMBER 17, 2023
[ This post is authored by Prachi Mathur and is the third post of the three-part post on the history of terms of copyright and translations in India. Prachi, who wrote this while interning with SpicyIP, is a Third-Year B.A., LL.B (Hons) student at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. ] Image by Freepik In part I and II of the post, I analysed the historical development and debates on the term of copyright in India.
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LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 17, 2023
The High Court recently delivered its decision in Real Estate Tool Box v Campaigntrack 1 relating to copyright authorisation. The High Court held that the appellants, who had engaged a third party software developer to create a real estate marketing system for their use, were not liable for copyright infringement, as they had not authorised the developer’s infringement of Campaigntrack’s copyright when creating the system.
Likelihood of Confusion
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log writes about a recent decision in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York — “Nothing sues like an Electrolux”: If you sue a. The post Abhoring a vacuum appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 17, 2023
In commercial contracts, a change of control clause is one that allows one of the parties to an agreement to terminate or modify its terms if a third party acquires a controlling stake in the other. A change of control clause grants a party certain rights, such a right to accelerate an obligation to pay [.
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