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Google Deindexes ‘Pirate’ IP Addresses When Used to Circumvent Blocking

TorrentFreak

New Domains Switched For IP Addresses For years pirate sites have deployed new domains to defeat ISP blocking. A more recent trend in some regions has seen pirate sites dump domains entirely and rely on IP addresses instead. ” Using IP addresses instead of domain names has another potential upside too. .”

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 14

Dragons' Den

Once your copyright has expired, anyone can use or copy your work. It’s great that Tori and Carrie already thought about overseas protection because IP rights are territorial. This means that if you only have UK protection, others may be allowed to use your IP abroad without infringing your rights.

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3 Count: Unlive PD

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Winston Cho at The Hollywood Reporter reports that A&E Television Networks has filed a lawsuit against Reels over the latter channel’s new hit series On Patrol: Live. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claim that Levitating is a copy of two of their songs, 1979s Wiggle and Giggle All Night and 1980s Don Diablo.

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IP matters.to Love Island

Intellectual Property Office Blog

This year, “the most commercialised show on British television” allegedly netted more than £12 million in revenues before the first episode aired on 28 June. This is a great example of Molly Mae understanding her IP rights and using them for commercial gain. The premise of the show is, as the name suggests, to find love.

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3 Count: Hey Mickey!

Plagiarism Today

The case is expected to be heard on June 6, but before then the court has tapped an expert from the Center for Innovation, IP and Competition at National law University to weigh in on the extent fair use makes such playing infringing or non-infringing. 3: Netflix Defeats Comic Artist’s ‘Umbrella Academy’ Lawsuit For Now.

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Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”

TorrentFreak

During the summer the UK government announced a new inquiry to investigate what needs to be done to “maintain and enhance” the UK’s position as a global destination for film and television production. For the major Hollywood studios of the MPA, IP protection and piracy remain key issues.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2023

SpicyIP

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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