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Legalizing All Movie Piracy Bad For Russia, Media Giants Inform Parliament

TorrentFreak

Over the last 18 months, various ideas and proposals have leaned toward limiting or even nullifying Western entertainment companies’ intellectual property rights in response to their withdrawal from the Russian market.

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StreamSafely: Anti-Piracy Campaign or Multi-Million Dollar Marketing Machine?

TorrentFreak

Put much more bluntly, entertainment companies want to make sure that the people ‘stealing’ their content are kept safe and don’t have their private information unnecessarily exposed. As the current member list shows, cable marketing has considerable scope. or CTAM for short. ” Under the heading The Cable Industry v.

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Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws?

SpicyIP

Image from here Hachette Book Group v Internet Archive: Archiving Access to Information or Strengthening Copyright Laws? By Tanishka Goswami Providing advantages of accessibility, affordability, and shareability among others, the swiftly expanding market for e-books stands at $17.20 billion today, only to grow manifold.

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Apple Watch Stays on US Market, But Pulse-Ox Disabled Pending Appeal

Patently-O

The image below comes from Apple Briefing from last week that attempted to keep information about the redesign confidential. So, bottom line here is that the Apple Watch stays on the market, but only if it disables the Pulse-Oximetry functionality.

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The War Over the Future of WHOIS

Plagiarism Today

The system, which made domain registrant contact information available to the public, was inherently incompatible with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This prompted registrars to redact valuable information, regardless of who was applying for it. Nearly all useful information is either redacted or obfuscated.

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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

Plagiarism Today

Now they are stuck with a book that they paid far more than market value for and no clear path to recouping that cost. Instead, the market has become about buying the “unique” or “scarce” NFT, often made from a widely available work. Adding in the Information. That is difficult to say.

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Will eBook Ruling Impact Fair Use Analysis for Generative AI?

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The court found that this was transformative (creating the searchable database) and did not adversely impact the market for books. In fact, the court noted that this likely helps the market by making it easier for people to find relevant books. And the image may impact the market for images. Each case will be fact dependent.

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