Hugh Stephens Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The announcement itself was a bit of an anticlimax. It was something that had been in the pipeline for months but until the publication of the Order-in-Council dated November 17 (released on November 23), it was still hanging as a piece of unfinished business.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 1, 2022
In a recent Google SEO Office Hours video, Dan Nguyen, from Google’s search quality team, answered a pair of questions that directly addressed content that scraped and/or spun from other material. The first question, at 9:19 in the video, asks, “How should content creators respond to sites that use AI to plagiarize the content, modify it, and then outrank them in search results?”.
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Erik K Pelton
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The USPTO trademark application process has many steps and possibilities, one such step is a “Request to Divide” an application and split it into two separate filings. Listen for more details about when and why an applicant would file a Request to Divide. For more about the entire trademark registration process, see [link]. The post What Is a Request to Divide a Trademark Application appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.
The IPKat
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Kat friend Jakub Wyczik provides an enlightening discussion of how AI and the law, especially copyright, intersect, with particular attention to the technical operation of AI. Images generated using text-to-image technology, including DALL-E 2 , Midjourney , and Stable Diffussion , have become a main topic in AI. Not only do many express wonder about how these systems work, but there is even doubt whether such users even have rights to such outputs.
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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?
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Space is no longer the sole domain of governments and aerospace and defense companies. Businesses that pursue emerging opportunities now may gain a first-mover advantage.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: US Navy Fined for Acts of Software Piracy. First off today, Nicholas Slayton at Task & Purpose reports that the United States Navy has been ordered to pay $154,400 in damages to a software firm after a court found the Navy had violated the copyright in one of their applications.
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The IPKat
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Unforgettable Kat. What can be the territorial scope of an injunction requiring a search engine to delist certain search results? This is a fundamental question when it comes to ensuring the effective protection of rights, including but not limited to IP rights, on the internet. It is also a question without an easy answer, given the conflicting rights and interests that come into consideration and require to be fairly balanced.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Worldwide IP filings increased by 3.6% in 2021, according to a report published November 21 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The increase came during a turbulent time for the world economy, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a global economic downturn. The biggest increase in patent filings was in Asia, where 67.6% of worldwide patent applications were filed.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: T elegram Shares Users Data in Copyright Violation Lawsuit. First off today, Manish Singh at TechCrunch reports that the messaging platform Telegram has disclosed names, phone numbers and IP addresses of administrators that are accused of operating copyright-infringing channels on the service.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
When the U.S. Government shut down Megaupload in 2012, similar platforms were presented with a practical example of what could happen to their businesses too. A few dozen armed police officers and helicopters swooping in for Kim Dotcom was certainly eye-catching, but the world learned something else too; hosting files can make people ridiculously rich and with Megaupload gone, there was a big gap in the market.
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The IPKat
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Art. 10.2 of the PRC Trade Mark Law (TML, 2019 Amendment ) concerns a ground for refusal against foreign geographical names: No geographical names of administrative divisions at or above the county level or foreign geographical names known to the public may be used as trade marks, except where geographical names have other meanings or constitute part of a collective trade mark or certification trade mark.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
On November 23, sportswriter Michael Bynum and his publishing label Epic Sports filed a motion for leave to file a second amended complaint and a proposed second amended complaint in the Southern District of Texas. The filings seek to revive copyright infringement claims filed by Bynum against employees at Texas A&M University for their roles in unauthorized distributions of Bynum’s biography of E.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
In Australia, long-time conservative commentator Peter Gleeson has left News Corp following a series of plagiarism allegations. . As we reported earlier this month , Gleeson’s downfall began in late October when he published a piece entitled Power and Palaszczuk in the Courier-Mail The piece was an unflattering 12-page “special investigation” into the government of Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, and her government.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Day in and day out, dozens of new movies and TV shows leak online. It’s become so normal that most pirates take it for granted. While millions of people consume this content, only a few people know who supplies it. This secrecy is much needed, as members of release groups risk criminal prosecution and multi-year prison sentences. EVO Goes Quiet.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
On November 29, 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited proposals for a revised Regulation and revised Directive on designs. The two proposals will now be transmitted to the European Parliament and the Council for adoption. This post summarises the main innovations of the two proposals. New definitions for “design” and “product” (Art. 2 Draft Directive, Art. 3 Draft Regulation) Draft Directive and Draft Regulation suggest a new definition for “design” and “product”, respectively
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Eleven Madison Park cofounder Will Guidara explains why a hospitality economy is on the horizon and shares the “unreasonable” strategies that he has used to lead restaurants to the top of their game.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: An Artist Has Vowed to Take Legal Action Against Cardi B for Appropriating His Art For Her Halloween Costume. First off today, Jo Lawson-Tancred at Artnet reports that an Italian artist has threatened legal action against musician Cardi B over an Instagram post of her in a Halloween costume.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Many private torrent sites track user traffic to ensure that when content is downloaded, an agreed amount is uploaded back to the rest of the community. Users can independently maintain their own transfer records, which help them keep track of overall bandwidth used and compliance with site rules, whenever traffic volume is an important factor. But whether they’re held locally, on a torrent site, or by an intermediary service, the usefulness of logs is reversed when they fall into the wron
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
This is another lawsuit against IAPs for subscribers’ BitTorrent activity. As I wrote previously : lawsuits against IAPs are problematic for many reasons, including the failure of 512(a), the danger of assuming that notices of claimed infringements (NOCIs) actually reflect infringing behavior, and the mismatch between the wrongdoing of alleged copyright infringement and the remedy of terminating Internet access.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Last September, a bipartisan pair of Senators introduced the Pride in Patent Ownership Act, which, if passed, would add greatly-needed transparency to our patent system. The legislation would require patent owners to disclose their identity to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) when a patent issues and whenever it changes hands so that members of the public have easy access to information about who the true owners of patents are.
McKinsey Operations
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The surge in digital consumer interactions is making possible a new era of gathering, analyzing, and responding to individual customer data strategically and with precision.
TorrentFreak
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed the indictment and complaint against two alleged operators of Z-Library. Following an FBI investigation, the authorities identified Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova as prime suspects. The pair were arrested in Argentina and now await potential extradition to the United States. There’s little doubt that Z-Library helped to distribute millions of copyrighted books.
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
Board of Appeal decisions considering description amendments are now so frequent that PatKat can only just keep up. Hot on the heels of T 2194/19 ( IPKat ), comes yet another decision addressing the legal basis for the description amendment requirement ( T 3097/19 ). The Board of Appeal in this latest decision explicitly disagreed with T 1989/18 , and found legal basis for adaptation of the description in line with the claims in Article 84 EPC and Article 69 EPC.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
On November 23, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. Copyright Office published a joint notice of inquiry in the Federal Register announcing that the two agencies would be collaborating on a study regarding intellectual property legal issues related to digital assets known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The announcement follows the dramatic rise in mainstream attention on NFTs due to their wildly fluctuating value, which has in turn created a great amount of confusion surrou
IP Close Up
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Opinions run hot and facts loose when it comes to describing providers of litigation capital, especially if the funds are used in support of plaintiffs Continue reading.
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Development of Genshin Impact began in 2017 and when it launched in 2020 utilizing a free-to-play model, a development budget of $100 million was on the line. Few could’ve predicted the astronomical success to come. With 16 million monthly players during its launch in September 2020, there was little doubt that developer miHoYo had hit the jackpot.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Former Netherlands chief of defense Tom Middendorp, the “climate general,” discusses efforts to decarbonize defense forces and the security risks that could be heightened by climate change.
IP Watchdog
DECEMBER 1, 2022
In a webinar hosted today by the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), the organization’s founders, Andrei Iancu and David Kappos, both former Directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), spoke with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, about the increased skepticism surrounding a plan to extend the waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to COVID-19 diagnostic
Copyright Alliance
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
This week we’d like to introduce you to author and Photographer Evan Butterfield. What was the inspiration behind becoming a creator? What do you enjoy most about the creative process? […]. The post Creator Spotlight with Author & Photographer Evan Butterfield appeared first on Copyright Alliance.
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 2, 2022
With nearly 12 million books, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repositories of pirated books on the Internet. The site had millions of regular readers who found a wealth of free knowledge and entertainment at their fingertips. This success was vigorously interrupted last month when the U.S. Government seized the site’s main domain names.
McKinsey Operations
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Net zero is an ideal state where the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released into the earth’s atmosphere is balanced by the amount of GHGs removed. Decarbonization efforts are needed to reach net zero.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
LGBTQ+ content creators “claim that despite YouTube’s purported viewpoint neutrality, defendants have discriminated against them based on their sexual or gender orientation, identity, and/or viewpoints by censoring, demonetizing, or otherwise interfering with certain videos that plaintiffs uploaded to YouTube.” In 2021, the court dismissed the lawsuit with limited leave to amend.
Intellectual Property Office Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Wheeling their way into the future, are Hornit - an innovative and creative British business that produces a wide range of cycling products. We spoke to their CEO Tom de Pelet about how Hornit has grown and how intellectual property rights have strengthened his business. Find out how to protect your IP using our guidance pages. Hornit's bike rack, CLUG, holding bikes upright.
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 1, 2022
To the global audience, Ulož.to may not be a household name, but in the Czech Republic, it is massive. The file-sharing and hosting service is listed among the most-visited websites in the country, while its mobile apps are frequently used as well. Like many other file storage platforms, Ulož can be used to share a wide variety of files but according to copyright holders, many people abuse the platform to share pirated music, movies, and TV shows.
McKinsey Operations
DECEMBER 2, 2022
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