IP Law 360

JUNE 23, 2023

The past week in London has seen the National Crime Agency look to recover more assets from the wife of an Azeri banker imprisoned for embezzlement, a Pinsent Masons’ trustee services unit bring legal action against Browne Jacobson LLP, and a product liability claim on behalf of 9,000 consumers against Nissan and Renault over illegal defeat devices. (..)

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 22, 2022

Just months later, Brazilian law enforcement agencies launched a large anti-piracy campaign codenamed ‘Operation 404,’ a nod to the well-known HTTP error code. This week, a new phase of Operation 404 was launched by the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the government’s National Film Agency ( ANCINE ).

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2023

Operation 404.5 – Phase 5 The launch of the 5th phase of Operation 404 is described by Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security (MJSP) as an “international mobilization” coordinated by the MJSP, through the National Secretariat for Public Security (Senasp), with support from police in eight states.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 28, 2022

Publicizing the closure of a big pirate service, the arrest of its operators, and the seizure of their assets, is a golden opportunity to discourage future crime by practical example. A parallel statement by Europol, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, put a little more meat on the bones.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A TASS news agency source reveals that the businessman was arrested under suspicion of compromising national security. Sachkov suspected of committing a crime stipulated under Article 275 of Russia’s Criminal Code (‘High treason’),” the source said.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While Brazil has been the focus of Operation 404 from the very beginning, the campaign has received considerable support from international rightsholders, government bodies and law enforcement agencies. Local law enforcement agencies provide additional detail on operations carried out in their regions, some of which are summarized below.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2022

Following a complaint filed by LaLiga in January 2022, Spain’s National Police launched an investigation into a piracy network supplying bars across the country in breach of copyright law. Alleged Intellectual Property Crimes. Coordinated Operation Across 13 Regions.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Currently boasting the fourth largest GDP per capita , Singapore is committed to becoming the world’s first “smart nation.” As they gather more data with every novel type of infraction they are confronted with, the Xaviers continue to self-refine their crime prediction accuracy. What are the Existing AI regulations?

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Bypassing Congress, the White house issued an Executive Order focusing on safe, secure and trustworthy AI and laying out a national policy on AI. The US just catapulted into being the world leader on regulating AI. The Executive Order covers several important issues but fails to address other significant issues. government.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 10, 2022

Agencies Team Up to Streamline Blocking. Both are administratively independent agencies, with the former operating under the supervision of Brazil’s Ministry of Culture and the latter operating under powers inherited from the Ministry of Communications. “Ancine cannot walk alone, and neither can Anatel.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 14, 2022

The past week has seen the University of Cambridge sue MasterCard, British make-up brands face off over intellectual property, and the National Crime Agency making a bid to seize assets from a lottery jackpot winner. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A copy letter obtained by Iilsole24ore identifies the send as the Nucleo Speciale Tutela Privacy e Frodi Tecnologiche , a Guardia di Finanza unit specializing in IT-related crime. It refers to an anti-IPTV police operation in May. The operation targeted around 500 pirate IPTV resources including websites and Telegram channels.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While the campaign itself tackles a specific type of crime, first and foremost it’s described as “a national campaign to protect the public from harm online.” On an ordinary level, deterrent effects are both valuable and worthy of protection, but this is no ordinary case.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In India, doping is not yet a crime. The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) became a registered society on November 24, 2005. NADA tests athletes competing at the international and national levels. xv] Regulatory agencies often ban technology when they start to give an unfair advantage. and Waddington, I. ‘“The

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2022

That belief is shared by law enforcement agencies across the continent, with Spain just one of the battlegrounds. All were detained under suspicion of IP-related crimes, including telecommunications fraud. EGEDA Files Complaint, Police Carry Out Raids. The group’s website and associated pirate services were closed down.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s alleged that Lin was admitted to the College of Law at National Chengchi University in 2018 and graduated two years later. Big Crimes Deserve Heavy Sentences. The company’s lawsuits overwhelmed the Intellectual Property Police Corps, other police agencies, and prosecutors’ offices, authorities say.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

We are monitoring the development of this and similar court actions across the nation and will continue to provide information about them to those who have indicated a desire to receive this information from us.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In South Africa, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) began the first set of public hearings on the Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) to address the President’s reservations on the Bill passed in 2020. This accusation comes two years after the EFCC launched its online application for reporting crime, called the "Eagle Eye".

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 4, 2024

We are monitoring the development of this and similar court actions across the nation and will continue to provide information about them to those who have indicated a desire to receive this information from us.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 27, 2022

In the second case, a national healthcare provider and its former CEO were acquitted on charges involving allegedly illegal “no-poach” agreements. In the first case, the DOJ’s first ever criminal wage-fixing prosecution ended with not guilty verdicts. On Thursday, April 14, 2022, in United States v.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

First published by national broadcaster KBS, the report claimed that after five years of tracking, major webtoon publisher Kakao Entertainment had “identified the operator of ‘M’, the world’s largest illegal comics and webtoon distribution site.” ” Big (Conflicting) Claims This claim piqued our interest.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 22, 2022

In the initial stages, the Ministry of Culture and Information was the national media regulator. 14/2006 abolished the Ministry and then established a new regulator for the industry i.e., National Media Council. Not be employed by any foreign agency. In 2006, the Cabinet Resolution No.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

On 22 June, Colombia’s financial oversight authority announced signing an MoU on money laundering and terrorist financing prevention with the US Financial Intelligence Agency (FinCen). 06/30/22 – Compliance. According to the oversight authority, the agreement has three purposes. . Original Source in Spanish.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 29, 2021

On July 28, 2021, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cybersecurity alert entitled “Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities” in collaboration with the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, and the FBI.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This guidance also highlighted potential reporting requirements with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as well as other expected risk mitigation measures, including coordination with federal law enforcement and, where required, disclosure to OFAC. Cuba, Iran, N. supply chains to foreign influence and protection of U.S.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“The good reputation of the UK’s treatment of copyright exceptions was threatened in 2022, when the Government proposed, as part of its national AI strategy, to introduce the new exception to copyright to include the training of AI models for ‘any purpose’,” the MPA writes.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, the Court ruled that, according to current EU law, Member States are not obliged to acknowledge that CMOs have a direct interest in pursuing enforcement measures in their own name, unless such a direct interest in defending the rights in question concerning those organizations is explicitly outlined in the relevant national legislation.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

, is to trace how the culture industries came to be perceived as copyright industries connected through the idea of authorship, with the aim of critically examining the role of authorship and its connection to copyright in the emergence of concentrated corporate control and the consequences for national cultural industries and diverse creators.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Two operations codenamed ‘Lígalo’ and ‘Tyche’ were assigned to the Technological Crime Group of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade (Grupo de Delincuencia Tecnológica de la Brigada Provincial de Policía Judicial). Police Arrest Six, Seize 24,400 Pirate Boxes.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2024

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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IP Whiteboard

AUGUST 30, 2020

In what we understand to be an industry-first, the Copyright Agency (an Australian not-for-profit collecting society that also licences copyright protected literary and artistic works) has licenced an Indigenous artwork for a tattoo. Ms Hagebols is the manager of Kakudu National Park’s Marrawuddi Gallery and a tattoo enthusiast.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 29, 2023

On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “ CTA ”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“ FinCEN ”).

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2022

Sangita is a 3rd year student at Gujarat National Law University and has written for us earlier here. Abdul Sathar v Nodal Officer, Anti-Piracy Cell, Kerala Crime Branch Office & Anr, 2007. Can the judicial opinion of law enforcement agencies be the basis for curbing the liberty of individuals? Cognizable and Non-Bailable.

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