Plagiarism Today
JUNE 2, 2022
Earlier this week, Mike Hiestand at the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) shared the story of an unnamed school newspaper that is facing a legal threat from a “copyright troll” over the use of an image on their site. . According to the post, the paper was working on an article about the COVID-19 pandemic and sought a stock image that it could use to accompany the writing.
Hugh Stephens Blog
JUNE 2, 2022
O Hypocrisy, know ye no bounds? That was the thought that flashed into my head when the University of Toronto (U of T) announced that it was suing Easy Group, a Toronto based tutorial service catering mainly to international students, for copyright infringement. According to a bulletin issued by the university, the institution–in concert with … Continue reading "O Hypocrisy!
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Erik K Pelton
MAY 30, 2022
30The following is a transcript of my video Red Flags for Any Trademark Application. Trends on social media move so quickly, but this one has lingered, and it’s about red flags. Because it’s related to social media, I only learned about it because of my children and my family, but a lot of posts about red flags use the red flag icon or emoji, and then warning signs about a particular topic.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 3, 2022
Next month will mark the 10-year anniversary of a new law introduced by Russia to ensure the safety of its citizens online. The “Extremist Websites Blocking Law” created a national blacklist to prevent socially harmful websites from being accessed by the public. No longer would extremist, terrorist, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), or the promotion of illegal drugs be allowed to spread online.
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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?
Plagiarism Today
MAY 31, 2022
Last week, the New York Times (NYT) found itself at the center of a plagiarism and citation controversy. . The paper released a multipart series on the country of Haiti , it looked at the debts that both France and the United States placed on the country since its independence and the role those debts have played in the country’s economic state. Though the material and the presentation of data is, by in large, seen as good, historians and other academics that participated in the article felt tha
Michael Geist
MAY 31, 2022
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage continues its hearing into Bill C-11 today with hours of scheduled testimony and witnesses that include Netflix, Youtube, and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. The witness list is becoming notable both for who is not included (a bill called the Internet Streaming Act without TikTok or Amazon or Apple or Roku?!) and who is back for another appearance (Scott will surely face pressure to soften his earlier comment that the user content is included in the bill ).
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TorrentFreak
MAY 30, 2022
Time flies, some people say. There is certainly some truth to that but for others, it appears that time stands still. Sydney-based movie distributer Odin’s Eye Entertainment appears to fall in the latter category. Or at least, its anti-piracy partner “ shoot-down.com ” does. Intelligent Anti-Piracy. The anti-piracy outfit is a relatively small player that first appeared on the scene two years ago.
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 2, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: California Court Upholds Right to Rent Physical Media. First off today, Brian J. Levy at Kristina Wang at Wilson Sonsini reports that the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has granted summary judgment in a case involving the rental of physical media.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 3, 2022
Worries about failure, criticism, and career impact hold back many people from embracing innovation. Here’s how to create a culture that accounts for the human side of innovation.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 1, 2022
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the emergency application to restore the injunction against HB 20, Texas’ social media censorship law. The vote was 5-4, with Barrett, Breyer, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Sotomayor voting to reinstate the injunction, and Alito, Gorsuch, Kagan, and Thomas voting to drop the injunction. Justice Alito wrote a dissent joined by Gorsuch and Thomas but not Kagan.
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TorrentFreak
MAY 31, 2022
Operating a mixtape site is not without risk. By definition, mixes include multiple sound recordings that are often protected by copyright. Popular hip-hop mixtape site and app Spinrilla , which has millions of users, is well aware of these risks. In 2017, the company was sued by several record labels, backed by the RIAA, which accused the company of massive copyright infringement.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 31, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Pinterest Prevails in Photography Copyright Dispute. First off today, Carson McCullough at Courthouse News Service reports that a federal judge has granted summary judgment in favor of Pinterest in their battle with a photographer. The case involved photographer and author Harold Davis, who sued Pinterest, alleging that the company featured images he created without permission.
McKinsey Operations
MAY 31, 2022
Employers have invested unprecedented resources in employee mental health and well-being. With burnout at all-time highs, leaders wonder if they can make a difference. Our research suggests they can.
Legal Zoom
MAY 31, 2022
Thinking about changing your name? This guide to legally changing your name will help get you started.
TorrentFreak
MAY 31, 2022
In common with other countries attempting to reduce their movie and TV show piracy problem, India has provisions in copyright law that allow rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites. Disney has utilized this mechanism to compel ISPs to block subscriber access to pirate sites and has also obtained so-called ‘dynamic’ injunctions that allow new circumvention domains to be blocked too.
Plagiarism Today
JUNE 1, 2022
Earlier this week, search engine optimization (SEO) expert Muhammad Awais took to Twitter to ask Google’s John Mueller a seemingly simple question: Is there any specific percentage of plagiarism that is acceptable in content? Mueller’s response was, to put it mildly, curt and direct. Acceptable by whom? Why not aim for none? — johnmu.xml (personal) (@JohnMu) May 30, 2022.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 3, 2022
What do CEOs do? Why do they do it that way? And what matters most?
IP Watchdog
MAY 31, 2022
Augmented Reality (“AR”), along with Virtual Reality (“VR”), is rapidly growing in prominence and will be transformative to the way we live, work, learn and play. Both AR and VR will undoubtedly bring a whole set of novel IP issues for individuals, companies, IP practitioners and the courts. Like any new technological area, such as cyber law for the nascent internet technology in the early 1990s, many legal issues need to be addressed and many more are yet to be discovered as this area evolves.
TorrentFreak
MAY 31, 2022
The Digital Economy Act 2017 was the government’s attempt at creating a better, safer internet for citizens in the UK. It included an amendment to the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act that raised the maximum sentence for online infringement to 10 years in prison, with a basic threshold of simply exposing a copyright owner “ to a risk of loss “ This meant that anyone downloading and sharing a single song or a single movie using BitTorrent became criminals in the eyes of the law
Patently-O
JUNE 1, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. Tiger Lily Ventures Ltd v. Barclays Capital Inc. ( Fed. Cir. 2022 ). LEHMAN BROTHERS has a bad name for triggering the US economic collapse in the mid 2000s. But, as they say ‘any publicity is good publicity.’. Barclays purchases a number of Lehman Brothers businesses and accompanying goodwill back in 2008 as part of the bankruptcy proceedings.
McKinsey Operations
MAY 31, 2022
Hungary’s path to net zero depends on the its ability to take action in seven economic sectors.
IP Watchdog
MAY 31, 2022
Last week, the United States Solicitor General recommended granting review in American Axle & Manufacturing v. Neapco Holdings, a case many in the patent community hope will provide clarity on U.S. patent eligibility law. IPWatchdog asked stakeholders to weigh in on whether the SG took the right approach and what this latest development means for the fate of U.S. patent eligibility.
TorrentFreak
MAY 30, 2022
Over the past decade, mobile applications have become the standard platform for most people to consume content online. Whether it’s for shopping, news, or entertainment, there is a mobile app available for any type of content. This shift in consumption patterns is not limited to legal content; piracy has gone mobile as well. In some cases, pirate movies and streaming apps can be found in official app stores.
Christopher Roser
MAY 31, 2022
To become lean, you need to improve your factory. Continuous improvement (kaizen) consists of many smaller and/or larger improvements. However, often the first challenge is where to start this improvement. Let me dig deeper into the possibilities and challenges of picking improvement projects, with a particular focus on systems that have multiple independent production lines, Read more.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 2, 2022
Countries and companies globally are taking action to pursue net-zero emissions, but their plans could easily be derailed by myriad factors. Here are some considerations for helping to keep them on track.
IP Close Up
JUNE 1, 2022
Despite the high economic relevance of innovation and explosive invention growth reflected in the number of patents issued annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Continue reading.
TorrentFreak
MAY 29, 2022
For the past several years, authorities in Italy have regularly announced operations that aimed to disrupt the supply and use of pirate IPTV services. After a series of similar actions, in 2021 it was claimed that ‘ Operation Black Out ‘ had shut down a network responsible for around 80% of the illegal supply in the country. This January, another operation led to the claimed dismantling of a network servicing 500,000 customers.
IPilogue
MAY 31, 2022
Anita Gogia is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pessimism is to innovative culture as heat is to ice. It slowly destroys but can be remedied by its polar opposite. On April 28, Halimah DeLaine Prado, the general counsel at Google, wrote about her optimism for innovative culture in an online post. She outlined reforms and recommendations that preserve the culture of innovation, advance the development of new technology, and reward entrepreneurs who are building
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 3, 2022
People have long worried about being replaced by machines, but Tsedal Neeley says the true threat to job security in the digital age is other humans—namely those who know how to use digital tools.
Erik K Pelton
MAY 31, 2022
A great logo can communicate a lot about a brand. Logos can become registered trademarks too. In this episode, Erik shares several examples of great logos and why businesses ought to consider protecting logo designs. The post The Value of a Great Logo appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. A great logo can communicate a lot about a brand.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 1, 2022
A year after Megaupload was shut down, Kim Dotcom launched a brand new file-hosting service called Mega. In the years that followed the New Zealand-based entrepreneur cut his ties with the company but Mega continued to expand. The platform, which has a strong privacy focus, is now the go-to file storage platform for millions of people. Most of these users store perfectly legitimate files on Mega but like many other services of its kind, it’s being abused by pirates as well. 1,187,646 Taked
Copyright Alliance
MAY 31, 2022
I remember having a conversation with a classmate of mine during my freshman year of college. I was trying to make small talk and being the socially awkward nerd that […]. The post Copyrights and Fictional Tropes: How Did They Become a Part of Our Stories? appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 2, 2022
Predicting the future is impossible, but traditional business models try anyway. Roger Martin says management leaders need to revisit the whiteboard.
IPilogue
MAY 30, 2022
Claire La Mantia is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article was written as a requirement for Prof. Pina D’Agostino’s Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program course. In late November 2021, Lululemon launched a lawsuit for design patent infringement against Peloton in relation to perceived similarities in the design elements of various pieces of activewear, including sports bras and leggings.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 1, 2022
As the metaverse continues to become a more established marketplace, and consumers become more familiar with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), NFT marketplaces, decentralized domains, bitcoin, crypto wallets and the blockchain, it is no surprise that intellectual property (IP) owners are starting to see an increase in unauthorized uses of their trademarks and copyrights.
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