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How to ACTUALLY Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism Today

If you’re a student, budding journalist or just someone taking up writing, you definitely do not want to become known as a plagiarist. In schools, plagiarism carries with it severe penalties, including potential expulsion. Outside the classroom, being marked as a plagiarist, especially in a public way, is a permanent stain on one’s career. Though some careers move past it, the cloud is always there.

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World IP Day: IP and Youth-Innovating for a Better Future (Kidovate as an Example)?

Hugh Stephens Blog

This year the theme of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, April 26, is “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”. As the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) puts it; “Across the globe, young people are stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course towards … Continue reading "World IP Day: IP and Youth-Innovating for a Better Future (Kidovate as an Example)?

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Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes. Believe it or not, even trademark lawyers can make branding–or maybe even trademark mistakes–from time to time. I am here to tell you about a personal experience, something that happened about 20 years ago, and I don’t think think I have ever discussed it openly as I’m about to today.

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EU Reaches Agreement on Digital Services Act, Including New Takedown Rules

TorrentFreak

In recent years the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. This includes the Copyright Directive which passed in 2019 as well as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which was officially unveiled at the end of 2020. The new legislation was met with fierce criticism. Some believe that it will lead to more ‘dumb’ upload filters.

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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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How to Defeat an AI-Powered DMCA Scam

Plagiarism Today

On April 13, Ben Dickson at The Next Web received an email from a lawyer with the name Nicole Palmer with the subject “DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice”. The letter was courteous and said that Dickson had used an image without permission. They were happy to have the image used, but simply wanted attribution back to the source. Dickson, however, began to investigate and found that he had obtained the photo from a free stock photo site, one that doesn’t require attribution.

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IP Reveries: Class 1 – IPR: A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology?

SpicyIP

IP Reveries: Class I – “IPR” – A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology? Swaraj Barooah & Lokesh Vyas. The introduction to this new series is laid out in a previous blogpost here. If you haven’t already, please read that to help make sense of this new series! Fair warning, this introductory post is longer than usual but we hope it makes for some easy Sunday reading!

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Google Voluntarily Removes More Pirate Sites From its Search Results

TorrentFreak

For more than a decade, various copyright industry groups have called on Google and other search engines to help contain the piracy problem. Google was initially hesitant to take action, but the company has gradually tweaked its algorithms over the years to accommodate the complaints. The first step was to demote results for domain names for which it receives many DMCA takedown notices.

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3 Count: Bottom Start

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Drake Dropped From Copyright Suit Over Chris Brown Collab “No Guidance,” Judge Makes “Started From the Bottom” Joke. First off today, Brad Callas at Complex reports that the rapper Drake has been dismissed from the No Guidance lawsuit, leaving Chris Brown as the only artist who worked on the track as a defendant.

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IP Reveries – An Introduction

SpicyIP

Intellectual Property Rights – a fascinating ‘subject’ that inadvertently touches upon so many aspects of our day to day life, whether we’re conscious of it or not. A few decades ago, even most lawyers wouldn’t have been able to clearly explain what a patent is. Fast forward to today, and while there’s still plenty of misunderstanding – patents, copyrights, trademarks, inventions, innovations, 4th industrial revolution, etc have all become buzzwords!

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Section 230 Helps Facebook Defeat Lawsuit Over Scam Ads–Calise v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The plaintiffs allege that Facebook runs third-party ads for scammy third-party merchant websites. One plaintiff claims a merchant didn’t send the ordered goods as described. Another plaintiff claimed that a merchant never sent any goods at all. The plaintiffs sued Facebook for (1) negligence; (2) breach of contract; (3) breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing; (4) violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law, Cal.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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RIAA & Homeland Security’s IPR Center Team Up to Fight Online Piracy

TorrentFreak

Following a disastrous few years at the turn of the century where the major labels failed to accept the direction their own industry was heading, streaming services such as Spotify are now giving the majority of music consumers what they have demanded all along. Massive libraries of accessible music at prices suitable for all pocket depths are helping the industry back to its glory days, with last year proving the most successful on record.

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The Plagiarism Controversy at the Venice Biennale

Plagiarism Today

The Venice Biennale, also known as the Art Biennale, is a biennial art exhibition that focuses on contemporary art and is famous for having countries all over the world present national pavilions. The event is incredibly popular, drawing more than 500,000 visitors , and is often seen as a way for countries to gain international attention for their local artists.

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Amici Back Cisco’s Bid for SCOTUS Review of Enhanced Damages Standard

IP Watchdog

Comcast and the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) filed amicus briefs last week backing a Supreme Court petition brought by Cisco Systems, Inc. last month. The petition asks the Court to consider whether: 1) enhanced damages may be awarded absent a finding of egregious infringement behavior; and 2) whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) may award enhanced damages without first allowing the district court to exercise its discretion to decide that issue.

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Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Its Failure to Explain an Account Termination–King v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is another one of the many unsuccessful lawsuits over online account terminations. The court previously rejected most of this lawsuit on a mix of Section 230 grounds and the prima facie elements, but permitted the plaintiff to try again on the claim that Facebook breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing by not providing an explanation for the account termination.

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IPTV, Usenet and Comic Book Pirates Agree To Pay Up and Shut Down

TorrentFreak

Whether movies and TV shows, music or other types of piracy, most major anti-piracy enforcement groups have a dedicated niche to protect. Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN covers them all. In a report last summer, BREIN revealed that in addition to taking down more than 460 pirate sites and services, it had 180 Pirate Bay proxies blocked at ISPs, played a part in 338 more shutting down, tackled 23 pirate IPTV sellers, 33 illegal streaming sites and reached settlement agreements with 42 “identi

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3 Count: 10,000 Hours

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work.

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CAFC Continues Its Censure of Albright on Transfer Analyses

IP Watchdog

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday directed Judge Alan Albright’s Waco Division of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to transfer a case brought by CPC Patent Technologies PTY Ltd against Apple to the Northern District of California. The CAFC said the district court erred in weighing the convenience of the witnesses factor as only slightly favoring transfer, noting that the court has historically rejected the view that this factor should be

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Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Litigation

Patently-O

15 years ago, several studies announced the “death of the doctrine of equivalents” post Festo. The chart below shows that courts have continued to write opinions about the DOE, and there have been several major cases where the doctrine was an important element of the patentee’s win.

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Managing IP EMEA Awards 2022: shortlists revealed

Managing IP

Managing IP will host an in-person ceremony in London on June 15 to announce the winners of the EMEA Awards

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3 Count: Not Raising Up

Plagiarism Today

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: ‘You Raise Me Up’ Copyright Fight Rejected by Supreme Court. First off today, Kyle Jahner at Bloomberg reports that the Supreme Court has declined to review a case that pits the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up. The lawsuit was filed by Johannsongs-Publishing Ltd, which claimed that the Groban song was a copyright infringement of a 1977 Icelandic song Söknuður.

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In Memoriam: Senator Orrin Hatch

IP Watchdog

Funeral services will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday, May 6, for Senator Orrin Hatch, who died on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at the age of 88. Hatch was Utah’s longest-serving senator, first sworn in by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller as a member of the 95th Congress in 1977, and co-author of one of the most significant IP bills ever passed, the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act.

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[Guest Post] WIPO’s African Group hits the ground running with a Work Program on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

The IPKat

WIPO is gearing up for the 42nd session of its Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and the Africa Group at WIPO has submitted a proposal for a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es). Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya have provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program proposed by the Africa Group.

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IP and Youth – innovating for a better future

Intellectual Property Office Blog

E very year, on the 26 April, World IP Day is celebrated across the globe. Hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization, it has a new focus each year. The theme for 2022 is ‘Innovation and Youth’. Innovation without limits. The world is an exciting place for young innovators. Our constantly evolving, increasingly eye-opening environment offers a diversity of opportunity for all ages to create and have their content seen on a worldwide scale. .

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Registration of Motion Mark as Trademark in India

Kashishipr

With the increase in globalization and cross-border trade, intriguing types of trademarks are trending and have become a crucial tool to signify a company’s identity. Business companies across the globe understand the utmost importance of the internet and different social media platforms and are therefore enhancing their logo with unique visual effects and animation.

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This Week in Washington IP: Honoring World Intellectual Property Day, Ensuring FDA User Fees Advance Innovation, and IP’s Role in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Health Committee will host a hearing on Tuesday to address ways that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s user fee program can better advance innovation in medical products. In the House of Representatives, the Financial Services Committee will explore data privacy and consumer protection concerns that are related to the increasing available of digital wallets on mobile devices.

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Bungie Receives DMCA Strike Against Itself?

IPilogue

Photo by Josh Miller ( Unsplash ). Andrew Masson is an IPilogue writer and 1L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. YouTube content creators must be hyper-aware of copyright. In one of the strangest instances of a copyright takedown, Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2, was issued copyright takedowns on their own YouTube page for content they created and held copyright in.

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Examining the Specification

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch. Earlier this month, I posted a short essay about recent enablement cases at the PTAB. Section 112(a) includes three disclosure requirements: written description; enablement; and best mode. I would further divide written description into two categories: new matter and Ariad -style. Thus we get: New Matter Written Description : Any amendments made to the claims during prosecution must be supported by the originally filed specification.

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Podcast: Copyright & Culture with Terrica Carrington

The Illusion of More

The theme of World IP Day this year is IP and Youth: Innovating for the Future. And one young IP expert trying to shape a better future for the next generation of creators is Terrica Carrington, VP of Legal Policy and Copyright Counsel at Copyright Alliance. With a passion for social justice, Terrica focuses a […]. The post Podcast: Copyright & Culture with Terrica Carrington appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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Set Better Standards for Quality to Save the U.S. Patent System

IP Watchdog

A recent New York Times Editorial Board opinion urged comprehensive reform of America’s patent system by focusing on a few examples of what the Board views as “bad” drug-related patents. Unfortunately, the opinion does not define what makes a patent good or bad. Nor do the sources relied on by the Board provide open access to the underlying data on which such judgments are made.

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Protecting IP Ownership Rights During Brainstorming or Collaboration Sessions

JD Supra Law

When two parties come together to discuss a new idea or potential collaboration, the parties are usually operating under the protection of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). If the parties decide to work together, they will most likely enter into a services agreement outlining their respective rights and obligations, including intellectual property (IP) ownership and commercialization rights.

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How Seagate is working to advance diversity and inclusion in patenting

IAM Magazine

Nikki Price Shaffer and Bob Pechman share insights on how the computer storage company is using data to understand and address the patent inclusion gap.

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Can AI-generated works be protected by copyright? No, according to US Copyright Office.

CopyrightsWorld

In recent years, artificial intelligence has improved its ability to create “art” – algorithms are now capable of making convincing “images” of people and locations that do not exist. The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States. Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI.

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Patent Practitioners Tell Justices to Forget American Axle—Fix Eligibility Law with Interactive Wearables’ Petition

IP Watchdog

A group of patent practitioners told the Supreme Court on Thursday that a case involving a patent for a type of content player would be a better vehicle for unraveling the patent eligibility problem than American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings, which has been awaiting a brief of the U.S. Solicitor General for about one year now. The case is Interactive Wearables, LLC v.

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The Pandemic May Not Automatically Frustrate Employment Contracts

Nelligan Law

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Frustration of Contract? Contract frustration occurs when a contractual obligation can no longer be performed, with no fault to either party. This occurs when a situation arises, causing the contract’s performance to become “a thing radically different from that which was undertaken by the contract”. In a recent case, discussed below, the Court ruled that the pandemic cannot cause frustration of contract.

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Bing Removed 143 Million ‘Pirate’ Site URLs Last Year

TorrentFreak

Bing has a relatively small market share but that doesn’t mean that it’s being ignored by copyright holders. Microsoft’s search engine processes millions of takedown requests per week on average and these numbers add up quickly. 142,855,667 URLs. Bing’s latest transparency report was published last week, allowing us to take a closer look at the latest trends.