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A Comprehensive Look at Data Privacy

LexBlog IP

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here. It’s December and time for.drumroll.

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Modern monarchy and the media: Duchess of Sussex wins historic privacy case against the British tabloids

IP Whiteboard

The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background. The Duke of Sussex, a.k.a.

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

1] However, this growth also brought an onslaught of new Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character.

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Publicity Rights Concerning Sports Athletes

IP and Legal Filings

This Act explains the significance of support when it comes to the enrollment of trademarks for the matter of Publicity or Privacy, and The Copyrights Act 1957 [iv] defines word “performer” as an actor, singer, musician, dancer, acrobat and juggler etc. which follow and have codified legislation on publicity rights in general for sports.

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Privacy Tip #324 – What Happens to My Health Information When a Hospital Goes Out of Business?

LexBlog IP

Unfortunately for patients of Eastern Ozarks Regional Medical System (Eastern Ozarks), it appears from a complaint filed against it by the Arkansas Attorney General (AG) that it did not properly dispose of medical records when it closed its doors in 2004.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The venerable IP notice-and-takedown scheme is being replaced by the SAD Scheme , where rightsowners quietly obtain ex parte TROs that target online marketplace accounts. Despite these obvious issues, the privacy community has been conspicuously quiet about age authentication. IP & Innovation L.

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