TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2024

Following a rightsholder complaint about copyright infringement taking place on Telegram, a judge in Spain issued a controversial order for ISPs to block Telegram in its entirety , across the whole country. As soon as the order was made public, nationwide and then international uproar led to the judge reconsidering whether the order really was a “necessary” and “proportional” response.

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The Trichordist

MAY 12, 2024

Can the Office of the Inspector General get hundreds of millions in black box money released to the rightful songwriters and publishers?

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

Last month , the Corte Suprema di Cassazione (the Italian Supreme Court) considered a matter concerning conflicts between trade marks and geographical indications for wines. The case, which concerned the Salaparuta PDO from Sicily, exposed some interpretative issues and has prompted a referral of two preliminary questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

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Likelihood of Confusion

MAY 12, 2024

(Email exchange off the INTA email list reprinted here with Mike Atkins’s permission;) From: Atkins, Michael G. Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 4:21 PM To: ‘tmtopics@lists.inta.org’ Subject: (INTA list) – H.R. 683’s Clarified Standard of Proving Dilution I got a status update yesterday from the House Judiciary Committee on the INTA-backed Trademark Dilution Revision Act […] The post What exactly is with the new trademark dilution bill?

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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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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

The UPCKat trying to keep confidential information confidential in the UPC As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat brings readers a roundup of how the UPC is treating confidentiality and third party access to court documents. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKats Agathe Michel-de Cazotte and Hiske Roos and members from the team at Carpmaels, this post will examine the topsy turvy world of confidentiality in the UPC.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2024

During a telephone call with Kim Dotcom, following the unprecedented raids that dismantled his Megaupload file-hosting empire in 2012, the tech entrepreneur insisted that this was no ordinary case. It wasn’t just a massively scaled-up version of piracy raids we’d reported on dozens of times before either. This prosecution had high-level politics not just at its core, but running so pervasively throughout that every twisted fiber had become inseparable from the corrupt corridors of po

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