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Movie Companies Sue Lawyer in Dispute Over Piracy Settlement Cash

TorrentFreak

For companies whose movies are downloaded and shared illegally, solutions have been developed that allow them to monitor suspected pirates and track them back to their ISPs, before obtaining their identities and making a settlement offer to end the risk of a full-blown lawsuit.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (September 27 – October 3)

SpicyIP

Webinar on ‘Traditional Knowledge as Intellectual Property: Opportunities and Challenges at the International Level’ [October 13]. The Walt Disney Company filed numerous lawsuits in courts in New York and California seeking to invalidate copyright notices issued by painters and illustrators associated with Marvel characters.

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U.S. Supreme Court Fixes Ninth Circuit’s Test for Mistakes in Copyright Registrations—Unicolors v. H&M (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In the interests of full disclosure, readers should note that I wrote and submitted an amicus brief , on behalf of myself and four other intellectual property professors, in support of the copyright owner (Unicolors), in this case. Copyright Office before an infringement lawsuit could be filed. (For