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Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”

TorrentFreak

For example, the availability of no-fault injunctions under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act has allowed Paramount to mitigate the threats presented by pirate sites. Once again, the term ‘gold standard’ is used. ” The problem is highlighted by the MPA, and separately by members Warner and Paramount.

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Should Any Device Which Can Be Used to Infringe IP Be Made Illegal?

TorrentFreak

It has the ability to record movies in cinemas, store copies for retrieval, and then distribute them on the internet. ” The directive also prohibits “all forms of advertising, direct marketing, sponsorship, sales promotion and public relations promoting such products and services.”

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Brazil Piracy Concerns at USTR Follow MPA Anti-Piracy Deal Controversy

TorrentFreak

At the time, ANCINE was clear that the deal meant it would gain access to automated systems that would allow it to “monitor irregularities” related to online advertising in connection with piracy-related products. There was never any real mystery about what it hoped to achieve.

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Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins

TorrentFreak

A memorandum of understanding signed two years ago by ODG and government law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza was designed to send another message on behalf of its members; journalism plays a key role in democracy and pirates shouldn’t be allowed to undermine either. The authorities listened and dozens of channels were blocked.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

The High Court also noted that merely because the impugned mark’s advertisement occurred in Delhi, the courts of Delhi will not become eligible to adjudicate on the dispute. The Defendant was served with a copy of summons and it did appear in one of the hearings, but later stopped, thus causing the matter to proceed ex-parte.

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Straight outta …?

The IPKat

A geographical name is non-distinctive and descriptive if two conditions are established: (1) The name must be known to the relevant public as the designation of a place. (2) Hard copy and online articles mentioning the city of Compton did not show how well aware the relevant public was of the geographical name.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

Copyright Lately

As the story goes, they provided him with a copy of a few scenes from “Ghostbusters” in which the theme would appear. You can judge for yourself by downloading a copy of “Jap Herron” here. The case is New Line Cinema v. Cinema Secrets (2000). to write the’s film’s signature song.

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