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Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago

TorrentFreak

The invention of the MP3 format in 1993 didn’t make any mainstream news headlines. In hindsight, however, it was a pivotal moment that would revolutionize music consumption, and more. Invented by the German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg and colleagues at the Fraunhofer Society, the coding format made it possible to reduce the size of music files without any significant loss of audible sound quality.

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The creativity of theft

Likelihood of Confusion

Sarah Burstein, by way of Julie Zerbo, or is it the other way around? An appropriate question: This design squatting (I don't know what else to call it) is astounding in its utter shamelessness. [link] — Sarah Burstein (@design_law) June 27, 2019 Funny thing: In certain contexts (or, perhaps, all contexts?), the more legal regimes […] The post The creativity of theft appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Section 230 Applies to YouTube and Google Search Results–Montano v. Washington Department of Health

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court summarizes some of the plaintiff’s concerns: all [] [D]efendants acted with malice against [] [P]laintiff who is a member of a protected class “LGBTQ” as a self-identified gay individual, causing [] [P]laintiff to suffer monetary damages including loss of employment, and a wrongful suspension of his dental practicing privileges in Washington State and is serving to deprive him of future employment as a license practice practitioner [sic] in the State of Florida.

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Blockbuster Summer: 10 Big Issues Justices Still Must Decide

IP Law 360

As the calendar flips over to June, the U.S. Supreme Court still has heaps of cases to decide on issues ranging from trademark registration rules to judicial deference and presidential immunity. Here, Law360 looks at 10 of the most important topics the court has yet to decide.

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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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Construction of exclusion clauses under Sale of Goods laws: Earthco v Pine Valley

Barry Sookman

The Supreme Court of Canada released an important decision in Earthco Soil Mixtures Inc. v. Pine Valley Enterprises Inc., 2024 SCC 20 on the construction of exclusion clauses in contracts. Specifically, the appeal concerned a contracting party’s ability to contract out of the statutorily implied condition of sale by description under the Sale of Goods Act , R.S.O. 1990, c.

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Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing

Michael Geist

The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision ( Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada ) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing even in cases involving those digital locks.

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