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Is Your Brand Protection Strategy Defamation-Proof?

IP Watchdog

Post after post after post, across numerous websites and social media platforms, alleging that Mr. Willison was a sociopathic criminal. A business associate had mentioned that Mr. Willison might want to Google himself, as some odd search results were appearing. And there they were.

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Operation 404: USDOJ, PIPCU, ACE, MPA, IFPI, ESA, EPL & More Target Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

released this week reveal progress and continued support from a laundry list of international contributors. In some cases sites were deindexed from search engines and their accounts removed from social media by court order. The latest results relating to the sixth wave (Operation 404.6)

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Richard Prince Effectively Settles, Dodging Post-Warhol Fair Use Ruling

IP Watchdog

On Thursday, final judgments were issued in a pair of copyright infringement cases that arose from a now infamous 2014/2015 project New Portraits, where appropriations artist Richard Prince displayed Instagram photos and user comments as a purported commentary on social media and art.

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Creator Frustration Over TikTok Reflects System Weaknesses—Both Racial and Copyright

IP Watchdog

Content on TikTok and other social media platforms is theoretically copyrightable. In practice, however, the IP rights of social media creators today are less clear. They are also discovering that not all creators are created equal, even when they are the source.

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Centering Artists’ Voices Within IP Discourse

IPilogue

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

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Thursday Thingies

The IPKat

The last miscellany post of 2022 contains some announcements for the blog's contributors as well as some IP news and four professional opportunities - which you should definitely look out for in January! We have reached the end of this long year and will now hopefully take a well-deserved break.

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Money, Media, Votes, and Passing H.R. 5874

IP Watchdog

Since no mortal can compete with Big Tech’s big bucks and their control of social media, and the media in general, the only lever remaining is delivering votes back home, or more importantly, delivering those votes to candidates who commit to supporting HR 5874.