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Bungie Wins Powerful Disclosure Order to Identify Anonymous Cheat Makers

TorrentFreak

However, with Ring-1 still in business, more work lay ahead. Defendants also use privacy protection services to hide their names and contact information from the public domain name WHOIS database.”

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

However, the prevalence of unauthorized use of renowned person names in advertisements has become a concern. Need for Protection of Personal Names through IPR Celebrities commonly demand a licensing fee for the utilization of their name, image, or other distinctive attributes in advertising or merchandising endeavours.

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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 However, the protection, enjoyment, and enhancement of Europe’s cultural heritage is far from being merely national business. At the EU level, the competence to legislate on cultural matters is mostly left to the Member States.

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2023 Quick Links: IP, Keyword Ads

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

His defense is that the work he used was free for all; after his victory, that work remains in the public domain for others to build upon. The notion that there is no publication or commercial “use” upon placing the image on the open Internet ignores the terms and purpose of Cal. This “analysis” sucks.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is great for Google but highly harmful to Genius, which, like many websites, bases its business model on users’ traffic and advertisements. In other words, what level of contractual control over public domain information is acceptable. However, this is not the focus of the Second Circuit’s approach.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Which makes the question of copyright preemption of online contracts a vitally important one for any person or business that is looking to do anything important with online data. Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim. TOU at 6-7.

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain. In the US, privacy laws are generally driven by state law, but there may be applicable federal law depending on the nature of the information collected.

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