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State Attorneys General Warn Public About Piracy Scams and Malware

TorrentFreak

This may help to explain why many recent studies and reports have linked malware to pirate sites. The Digital Citizens Alliance ( DCA ), which has close ties to the content industries, has highlighted these types of piracy threats for years. Of those who never visited pirate sites, ‘only’ 18 percent reported similar issues.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Ruchi Sharma highlights a few findings of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister’s report “Why India Needs To Urgently Invest In Its Patent Ecosystem?” and emphasizes on the need to facilitate data access by IPO for the betterment of the national innovation system, something which the above report is silent on.

IP 100
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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

His predicted countermoves: web was predicated on amateur content; producers who lacked mechanism to reach an audience would provide that content for free—massive databases of free content that could be ad-supported b/c it didn’t cost much to obtain. Under consent decrees, they have to report to authors first.