Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A $1 billion judgment against Cox was recently vacated. However, it's not a full victory for the ISP nor a full defeat for the music industry. The post Why Cox’s $1 Billion Victory May Not Matter appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Screen Australia Drama Report At a time when streaming services (also referred to as subscription video on demand, or SVOD) are growing internationally at a frenzied pace, various countries are pondering how to deal with this phenomenon, particularly when it comes to local production.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Basia Łabaj, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5 years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to implement the provisions of the 2019 Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive into national law.
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Digital policy has been the source of seemingly never-ending frustration for years in Canada. The government chose to prioritize two flawed bills on online streaming and online news, both of which sparked considerable opposition, lengthy delays, and ultimately delivered few actual benefits ( Bill C-11 faces at least another year of hearings at the CRTC, Bill C-18 is a disaster that has left many media companies worse off).
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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
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
A pair of news stories have drawn new focus on terms of service overreach by companies and the new dangers AI brings to problem. The post AI and the New Age of the TOS Rights Grab appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
By Leoboudv-Own Work, CC BY-SA 3.0 [link] The issue of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples will remain a front-burner issue in Canada in 2024 so I think it appropriate to post a good news story on this topic early in the year.
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Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The proverbial ink is barely dry on the disastrous Bill C-18, yet the Canadian media lobby has already moved onto the next targets for government funding, grants, and tax reform. The effort, which is seemingly designed to ensure that government funding or regulation cover the entire cost of news, focuses on extending grants , expanding provincial tax credits , and overhauling the tax treatment of ad spending.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Catholic Priest Father Jim Sichko has had his recent book pulled following allegations of plagiarism. Here's the warning signs he missed. The post The Strange Case of Father Jim Sichko appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Inventors and patent practitioners filing patent applications before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may have an obligation to disclose if artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the innovation process. Everyone involved in the filing and prosecution of a U.S. patent application has a duty to disclose to the USPTO all information which is materially relevant in assessing the patentability of the invention.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
When Bram Cohen released the first version of BitTorrent in 2002, it sparked a file-sharing revolution. At the time bandwidth was a scarce resource, making it impossible to simultaneously share large files with millions of people over the Internet. BitTorrent not only thrived in that environment, the protocol remains effective even to this day. BitTorrent transfers rely on peer-to-peer file-sharing without a central storage location.
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Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Erik provides updates on one of our most frequently asked questions about the trademark process in this video. The post Update on USPTO Trademark Delays appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik provides updates on one of our most frequently asked questions about the trademark process in this video.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Supreme Court hears statute of limitations case, Nickelback wins appeal over Rockstar and Build-A-Bear sued over new toy. The post 3 Count: Rockstar Teddy Bear appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
As I’ve previously written, for many years after the DMCA passed, everyone assumed that 17 USC 512(a) completely shielded Internet access providers from liability for subscribers’ copyright infringements. Then, about a dozen years ago, the rightsowners coerced Internet access providers to adopt the “ Copyright Alert System ,” which treated rightsowners as trusted flaggers (whether or not they deserved that status) and required Internet access providers to deploy a “
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
For many people, Google is the go-to starting point when they need to find something on the web. With just a few keystrokes, the search engine can find virtually anything. This is generally good, but copyright holders are not happy with all content that can be discovered. Pirates sites, for example, should remain hidden when possible. In recent years Google has tweaked its algorithms to address this issue.
Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of my video All About the New USPTO Trademark Search System. At the end of November, 2023, the USPTO launched a brand new search platform for their trademark database. This meant the retirement after more than 20 years of the prior search system, TESS, which had many limitations. The new system is called Trademark Search.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Cox gets $1 billion judgment overturned, Cam'ron to pay $50k to photographer and Reddit strikes deal with AI company. The post 3 Count: One Billion Overturned appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The European Parliament has adopted an amended European Commission proposal to regulate plants engineered using techniques such as CRISPR/Cas and ban any patenting of plants, plant parts, material, genetic information, or methods resulting from these techniques.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The action in Canada this week is being described as the second phase of an operation that began last year. Events were triggered when rightsholders led by Bell Media filed a criminal complaint against pirate IPTV service, Arubox TV. Following an investigation by the Quebec Provincial Police, in 2023 the Office of Criminal Assets Recovery and Money Laundering carried out five searches; a condo in Laval and premises in Saint-Eustache and Brownsburg-Chatham were among the targets.
Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of my video 4 Tips for a TTAB Hearing. Know the rules in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). The rules for evidence, the rules for the case, and the rules for the hearing. They’re very similar to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but they have their own nuances and and it’s important to know what they are.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Music publishers respond to Anthropic, BIRDIE Act aims to protect golf courses and George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel over Cameos. The post 3 Count: FORE! appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A bipartisan group of 28 members of congress, including Senate IP Subcommittee Chair Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member Thom Tillis (R-NC) and House IP Subcommittee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA), sent a letter yesterday to President Biden urging the administration to reconsider its December proposal to allow agencies to consider pricing in deciding whether and when to “march in” on patent rights.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A few hours ago a TorrentFreak reader linked us to a list of almost 200 domains with several things in common. The vast majority have naming conventions that almost certainly point to some type of piracy activity. No shortage of the word ‘streams’ for example, along with other familiar pirate terms such as HD, cine, film, movie, plus the likes of buff, cric and crack.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
We previously discussed the United States Supreme Court’s June 2023 Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products, LLC decision, which altered the way the “Rogers test,” a doctrine designed to protect First Amendment interests in the trademark context, should be applied. A recent decision out of the Ninth Circuit, Punchbowl, Inc. vs. AJ Press LLC (“Punchbowl II”), applies the Rogers test for the first time following Jack Daniel’s.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
This is a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against a media website, so you have good reason to wonder about the legitimacy and sincerity of the case. The named plaintiff created a WSBTV account by opting to log in using Facebook. That choice led the plaintiff to this screen: If plaintiff had clicked on the “Terms” link at the bottom right, it would have led to CMG’s “Visitor Agreement” that included an arbitration clause.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
On February 20, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order list that denied petitions for writ of certiorari filed in at least five intellectual property cases. While none of these cases induced large numbers of amici to ask the Court to grant cert, they do represent several current issues in IP law that remain unaddressed. From the use of joinder to evade time-bar limits in patent validity proceedings to the service of process required for a grant of preliminary injunction, the Court’s cert denials
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie companies said they were not planning to go after these people in court but wanted to use their comments as evidence in an ongoing piracy lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Reddit wasn’t willing to go along with the request, at least not in full.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
On December 27, 2023, The New York Times Company ("The Times") sued several OpenAI entities and their stakeholder Microsoft ("OpenAI") in the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement, vicarious copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement, violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unfair competition, and trademark dilution (complaint).
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. While that’s interesting, I’m focused on Squishmallow’s abuse of the SAD Scheme. I previously blogged about one such case, where Squishmallow sued 90 e-commerce merchants in a sealed complaint and got a TRO. Typical SAD Scheme stuff.
SpicyIP
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Can Section 3(d) be applied to a non pharmaceutical invention? if yes, what can be ‘efficacy’ for such a subject matter? The MHC in Novozymes v. Asst. Controller of Patents and Designs made some interesting observations on these issues. Discussing the court’s decision, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Amit Tailor. Amit is a Postgraduate in Pharmaceutical Sciences from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Thanks to a global pooling of knowledge and intelligence, answers to our most difficult questions are just a few clicks away on the internet today. Since in many cases those answers aren’t necessarily right, or even right at all, that might explain why some seek advice from outer space. For a fee, astrologer Vaneet Sharma and his company Astro Vastu Solutions (AVS) reportedly supply all kinds of advice.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Fruity Pebbles Colors Ruled Not Distinctive - Post Foods lost its appeal for a color mark for its Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal in a ruling that illustrates why distinctiveness is a critical hurdle to clear when seeking a trademark registration on a color.
Managing IP
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The winners of the awards will be revealed at a gala dinner in New York City on April 25
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Intel and Microsoft announce a custom chip deal worth up to $15 billion; the Justice Department announces its first Chief AI Officer; and an appeals court overturns a $1 billion ruling for copyright infringement against Cox Communications.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. These archiving efforts, which started decades ago, will become more valuable over time. The same could apply to IA’s other projects, including the digitization of old books and records. Six years ago, the Archive began archiving the sounds of 78-rpm gramophone records, a format obsolete today.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
AI technologies bring several new business opportunities, but they also bring a host of new legal questions, including in intellectual property law. A very important question at the intersection of AI and IP is: how do we define inventorship in situations where artificial intelligence plays a role in the creation of an invention?
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