Hugh Stephens Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

Image: Shutterstock via AI modification It was inevitable. After Meta pulled the plug on news content on its platform in Canada as its way of complying with the obligations of the Online News Act, Australia, the model that Canada sought to emulate, was surely next in line.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2024

The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish a guest contribution by Katfriend Hans Eriksson (Westerberg & Partners) that discusses the rights conferred by trade mark law in the context of horology. Here’s what Hans writes: Horological IP and the customization of watches by Hans Eriksson The world of high-end watchmaking is a good case study for the importance of intellectual property (IP) rights.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 24, 2024

Cancel culture proves that disparaging trademarks go away by themselves The post Brands, cancel culture & disparaging trademarks appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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The IPKat

MARCH 24, 2024

Spring has sprung bringing along the latest news of the week. Launch of the Journal of AI Law and Regulation (AIRe) The Journal of AI Law and Regulation is on. Free access to the first issue is available here , subscriptions are open here. On 11 April 2024, there will be also the official launch event in Brussels during a conference on the AI Act. For more information click here.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

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?

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2024

Pirate sites are frustrating rightsholders across all continent and many of them see website blocking as the solution. In Ecuador, blocking measures are not new. Five years ago, the country’s National Intellectual Property Service was the first to order local Internet providers to block several domains of sports streaming site “Rojadirecta”. These blockades were issued following a complaint from the local football league LigaPro.

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