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Enforcing Copyright Outside the Courtroom – The New Notice Regimes

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

With the ever-increasing presence of social media, including websites like YouTube where content can generate income, copyright infringement is escalating at alarming rates. Enforcing Copyright The traditional pre-litigation enforcement tool is a demand letter.

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The IPKat welcomes new GuestKats

The IPKat

Here's a bit more about them: Gabriele Girardello Gabriele is an Italian-qualified lawyer and holds an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Turin - WIPO. He’s been practising law since 2006 and working since 2011 in the IP Department at Pavia e Ansaldo. You can learn more about Jan here.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

For trademark owners, litigation was their main option. also, Misuse of social media involves using trademarks without authorization to mislead or damage companies. ” Counterfeiters use online marketplaces, social media platforms, and websites to sell counterfeit goods bearing trademarks without authorization.

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Battle of the Brushes: Are Makeup Artists Left in Copyright’s (Eye)shadow?

IPilogue

Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, enrolled in Professor David Vaver’s 2021-2022 Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program. The use of interactive face filters on social media platforms complements this integration of face detecting technology into our daily lives.

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Book review and discount code: Commercialising Celebrity Persona

The IPKat

This is a review of Commercialising Celebrity Persona, Intellectual Property Law and Practice by Emma Perot, Lecturer in Law at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. In particular, she notes that there is more likely to be litigation and settlement in the US than in the UK.

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CASE Act Provisions Are Now Law

Velocity of Content

As I wrote earlier, “ it’s probably not a surprise for readers to learn that copyright litigation can be very expensive – one estimate from the American Intellectual Property Law Association suggests that the average cost of a case in recent years, including appeals, runs over $278,000.” I grant those are possibilities.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others.