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YouTube Orders ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days

TorrentFreak

Invidious: A Privacy Front-End For YouTube Invidious describes itself as an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. ” Clients may not infringe copyrights or exploit copyright-infringing materials, Google adds. ( “Things will continue normally until they can’t anymore.

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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

Much of that perception comes from issues that NFTs have had, One of the more common ones is plagiarism and copyright infringement. The company ceased operations after the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter. The company ceased operations after the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter.

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Once Again, LinkedIn Can’t Use CFAA To Stop Unwanted Scraping–hiQ v. LinkedIn

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all?

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Anti-Circumvention Takedowns Aren’t Covered by 512(f)–Yout v. RIAA

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But if they want to be double-sure, send a takedown notice on any grounds other than copyright infringement and voila! The complaint. . * 17 USC 512(f) Preempts State Law Claims Over Bogus Copyright Takedown Notices–Amaretto v. UMG. * Copyright Takedown Notice Isn’t Actionable Unless There’s an Actual Takedown–Amaretto v.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-05-02

Barry Sookman

Redbox [link] 2020-04-26 Freezing order made in the UK to enforce trade secret misappropriation judgment in the United StatesMotorola Solut… [link] 2020-04-27 Statutory damages for copyright infringement of a web site about page awarded2020 FC 379 (CanLII) | Biofert Manufa… [link] 2020-04-27 Link to York University v.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Second Circuit now takes “a restrictive view” of the extra elements that would make a contract claim qualitatively different from copyright, and therefore not subject to preemption. “[W]e Thomson Reuters sued for both copyright infringement and tortious interference with a contract (in inducing a third party to breach Westlaw’s terms).

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (February 6- February 12)

SpicyIP

Regardless, it sent a cease and desist to the defendants in 2022 who have a shop in Jaipur with a similar name and have registered the word mark in 2013. CIC clarifies that merely because a fellowship is funded by public exchequer, it will not mean that it is a public interest issue outweighing concerning privacy issues.

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