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SEC Charges Justin Sun, TRON & BitTorrent Companies With Fraud

TorrentFreak

After reporting on all things BitTorrent-related for the 13 years leading up to May 2018, TorrentFreak spotted something out of the ordinary. Fraud and Market Manipulation The SEC alleges that Sun was also the architect of a scheme that sought to artificially inflate the volume of TRX on the secondary market. BitTorrent Inc.,

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Too Rusty For Krusty–Nickelodeon v. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? It confirms both ownership of valid copyrights and copying by the defendants of original constituent elements of the works.

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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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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Nepal

IP and Legal Filings

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. It encompasses all intersecting IT industries and might affect anything from social media use to surveillance, e-commerce, and technological innovation. An NFT and the corresponding permission to use, copy, or display the asset can be bought and sold in digital markets.

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Protection Of Advertisement Campaign- An Analysis

IP and Legal Filings

The company aims at highlighting the qualities of the products through advertisements which thereafter becomes an advertisement campaign which build the market identity of the product. Advertisements are for public display and therefore, claiming the ownership is a debatable question in the domain of intellectual property.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 05- February 11)

SpicyIP

Case Summaries Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing v. The Respondent operates his business through two incorporated entities and claims ownership of the trademark via the permitted use by the two incorporated entities. But how does this finding interact with the position of relevant laws in India?

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents. Before November 19, 2018, the previous takedown notices to Amazon didn’t violate 512(f) because the successor licensee didn’t have the requisite bad intent.