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Cloud TV Service Boss Sentenced to 3 Years Prison Plus $505,000 Damages

TorrentFreak

Given the ongoing shift in the TV market away from terrestrial and satellite delivery in favor of IP-based services, cloud recording services are no longer the big deal they once were. When TVkaista launched in Finland way back in 2007, storing video in the cloud certainly wasn’t taken for granted as it is now.

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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

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes

TorrentFreak

Since Sony’s Betamax-format recorders were able to record TV shows, studios including Universal and Disney sought to hold Sony liable for users’ alleged copyright infringements. In 2007, their growing collection of analog commercials, TV clips and other TV memorabilia, ventured into the all-digital online world.

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Customs Intervention for IP in the Indian Sub-Continent

Kashishipr

Intellectual Propriety (IP) rights holders are under the perpetual threat of counterfeit goods in the market that is growing exponentially with advancing technology and a surge in cross-border trade among countries. Hard copies of the documents uploaded in the online application are sent along with the UTRN to the Customs Office.

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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

The IPKat

As IP aficionados, many readers of this blog will have strong views about the proper scope of copyright law. Can and should those beliefs be protected under the Equality Act 2010, protecting copyright believers against discrimination in employment law and in the exercise by public authorities in their functions?

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Don't you dare use the name of the book for that movie!

The IPKat

T]here is a compelling reason why the name or title of a book cannot be a trademark, which stems from copyright law. Unlike a copyright that has a limited term, a trademark can endure for as long as the trademark is used. identifies a specific literary work. Let us take Jane Austen's book, "Mansfield Park".

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Web Scraping and Intellectual Property Rights

IIPRD

in a short span of time to take greater advantage of a situation by developing market strategies and taking business decisions. Data scraping majorly involves the copying of data from a source; therefore the Copyright laws come into the picture. 2] The Copyright Act, 1957.—Section References]. [1]