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The following is an edited transcript of my video, Creative Trademarks Are Alive and Well on Main Streets in America. . One summer tradition that my family and I really enjoy is a great road trip to explore someplace new, especially smaller towns up and down the East Coast, where I’ve lived for my whole life. I’ve seen many of the small towns and college towns, but I’m always looking to explore new ones.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO ) regularly conducts studies to see how piracy evolves over time. These studies help the public to understand local piracy trends and can be used as input for future policy decisions. This week, EUIPO published the latest version of the annual online copyright infringement report. The study looks at the period between 2017 and 2020 which includes the start of the Covid pandemic, where piracy reportedly spiked.
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On Monday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation and Policy Center (GPIC), in collaboration with Copyright Alliance, hosted a panel and roundtable discussion entitled A Conversation on Diversity and Inclusion in Copyright. The main topics discussed were the importance of fostering diversity among creators and creative works as well as a desire to see […].
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Lamont Abramczyk is a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. It is common practice for jockeys to equip horses with blinders. The effect is to narrow a steed’s field of vision to prevent it from panicking or becoming distracted by peripheral objects.
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