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How Brands Can Fight Back Against Grey Market and Counterfeit Sellers on Amazon 

Traverse Legal Blog

While these can be negative situations by the platforms themselves, a more serious issue occurs when third parties steal your market share and affect your revenue. The Challenge of Grey Market Sellers Grey market sellers, also known as unauthorized resellers, obtain authentic products through unofficial channels.

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Putting the Uniformity Back in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: Sixth Circuit Rules Breach of Contract Claims Can Still Be Used to Protect Trade Secrets

JD Supra Law

Across industries and states, companies safeguard a wealth of critical information that provides a competitive edge. This closely guarded recipe has given the company a significant market advantage over competitors in the soda industry for decades.

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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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Telegram Shuts Down Z-Library & Anna’s Archive Channels Over Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

The communication platform helps to connect people from all over the globe, with optional end-to-end encryption providing improved security compared to some other players in the market. Telegram can also be an excellent medium to broadcast messages to a wider audience.

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Record Labels Target 20 ISPs in Pursuit of BitTorrent Pirates and Damages

TorrentFreak

In a recent report, RIAJ Chairman and Sony Music Entertainment CEO Shunsuke Muramatsu said that 2024 marked the 11th consecutive year of growth in the domestic market. In common with Western markets, streaming is the driving force. Somehow, Japan’s love affair with the CD is still producing steady sales too.

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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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Identifying the implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy

IPilogue

By 'Damola Adediji Policy researchers and government studies worldwide have continued to express deep concerns surrounding Big Tech firms and their extensive collection of personal digital data, which affects how markets operate and compete. Network effects result from how the number of users in a network (e.g.,