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IP Report 2021

LexBlog IP

It outlines trends, data and legal rights pertaining to patents, trade marks, designs, plant breeder rights ( PBR ) and copyright. Design certifications remained generally stable (with a small decrease) in 2020. Design Right Applications, Registrations and Certifications. Key players. Restricted social interacting (incl.

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Government Gets the Law Wrong as it Finally Makes the Case Why it is Rejecting the Bill C-11 User Content Regulation Fix

Michael Geist

When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation. The effect of this amendment would be to reduce YouTube’s obligations to contribute to Canadian content. First, Gold is effectively confirming that user content is in the bill.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television). Barr makes explicit a factor we had long suspected with the skew of evidence on the Portal: the music industry is disproportionately overrepresented in empirical copyright literature.