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Would it be SMART to Tweak the DMCA?

Velocity of Content

In mass media, Walt Disney Company, proprietor of “The Happiest Place on Earth” ®, had recently (1995) acquired the ABC television network, and Marvel was still mostly a comic book company, and just emerging from bankruptcy and reorganization. Marvel’s first widely successful superhero film, Blade , was released in August.

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Secrets in the Pitlanes : Navigating IPR In Formula 1

IIPRD

IP can be found in the chassis of cars, uniforms, merchandise, various engineering and designing equipment, television broadcasting, and most importantly, carefully hidden trade secrets. As the need for the development of new engine designs is felt season after season, patenting one would not prove wise.

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Why the Online News Act is a Bad Solution to a Real Problem, Part Six: CBC Eligibility Harms News Competition and Its Public Interest Mandate

Michael Geist

Rather than limit the scope to Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations, which was the government’s approach for tax-related support, the bill qualifies any news business that employs at least two journalists in Canada, operates in Canada, and produces general interest news content.

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Telegram Piracy: Police Target 545 Channels & Eight Suspected Admins

TorrentFreak

A memorandum of understanding signed two years ago by ODG and government law enforcement agency Guardia di Finanza was designed to send another message on behalf of its members; journalism plays a key role in democracy and pirates shouldn’t be allowed to undermine either. ” Police Obtain Authority to Search and Shutdown.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

A version of this paper is scheduled to be published in the Intellectual Property Journal. The defendants had been retailing pre-loaded set-top boxes that gave viewers unauthorized access to television broadcast and cable programming in which the plaintiffs owned or controlled the copyright. Thanks to Ronald M.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

SpicyIP

Call for Papers: NALSAR’s Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law (IJIPL) Vol. Eenadu Television A Division … on 8 November, 2022 (Andhra Pradesh High Court). Controller of Patents and Designs ( pdf ), was decided by the Delhi High Court and deals with issues pertaining to prior art and inventive step. Image from here.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 2 of 4: Exploitation rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

That applied in particular if the product being exhibited was not ready for market but merely a prototype or design study. The manuscript relies on the early reports on copyright case law by the author with Christian Czychowski and Julian Waiblinger in the German law journal, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW).

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