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Pirate IPTV: Brit Arrested in Benidorm After Social Media Ads Raised Suspicion

TorrentFreak

According to data published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, UK residents made 15.6 It’s alleged that an application open on the laptop allowed the man to control the IPTV services he offered on social media and at the time of the police intervention, he was offering several dozen, including some in Spain.

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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. This observation, coupled with seeing multiple artists be exploited by Instagram users and large companies, motivated me to reach out to several creatives online and bring their voices to the IPilogue.

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Puzzlingly calling a venue name a "title," court nonetheless rejects claim against MTV show

43(B)log

The district court granted summary judgment on the resulting trademark claims, reasoning that plaintiffs’ likelihood of confusion showing was “not strong enough to meet the standard that applies to artistic works. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 2d 490 (2d Cir. This part is not persuasive.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 14

Dragons' Den

The length of copyright depends on the type of work. For artistic work copyright protection lasts 70 years after the author’s death. There isn’t a register of copyright works in the UK. Whether you mark the work or not doesn’t affect the level of protection you have. of the business which then drops to 12.5%

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. ” Notice how this legal standard skips a step in the publication process, because it was likely not the initial authors/publishers who submitted the yearbooks to PeopleConnect. Ancestry , Knapke v.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (June 28 – July 4)

SpicyIP

I argue that rewarding knowledge production and creative effort itself through maximising commercial advantage via exclusive rights are incentives that do not apply to government works whose primary motivation for creation is public dissemination. The Bombay High Court in Hindustan Unilever Ltd v.

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Removing songs from Spotify could breach label’s duty to exploit: Four Tet v Domino

The IPKat

Artist Four Tet took to social media to announce that its record label, Domino, had requested his music be removed from streaming platforms, amidst a legal dispute over royalties. In the latest hearing between the parties, Four Tet applied to amend the particulars of the dispute to include Domino’s recent behaviour.