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

TorrentFreak

Social Media Sales Attract Attention According to information released by Spain’s National Police on Monday, a broadcaster’s representative filed a complaint after spotting a profile on social media platforms offering pirate IPTV subscriptions.

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Rogers v Grimaldi doesn't apply to alcohol, but Peaky Blinders still can't get injunction

43(B)log

If we got rid of the bizarre idea that Rogers was about artistic works and correctly labeled it as being about commercial speech, courts would do much better. It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.”

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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. Occasionally been used in the title to artistic works” is a red herring. This part is not persuasive.

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11th Circuit affirms Viacom's Rogers-based win for MTV Floribama Shore

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MGFB has a federal registration for FLORA-BAMA for “bar and restaurant services” and several entertainment services, including “social entertainment events,” live musical performances, and “competitions for fish throwing.” Flora-Bama logo The Flora-Bama has been featured in artistic works by third parties.

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Emerging Trends In Digital Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Given the fact that the copyright law was originally framed to protect literary and artistic works, it needs to be seen how much the law has evolved to grant protection to digitalized works. Firstly, take the example of social media. With the advent of social media, anyone can post anything on it.

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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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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 13- November 19)

SpicyIP

vs Acko General Insurance on 10 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) The dispute pertains to the use of the plaintiff’s artistic work “Humanity” by the defendant in one of its advertisement hoardings. The defendant argued that since the plaintiff’s work was exhibited in public its reproduction will fall under the ambit of fair use.