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ICANN Simplifies Requests For Hidden Domain Name Registration Data

TorrentFreak

That included those whose names appeared in public WHOIS databases as registrants or owners of domains. “Due to personal data protection laws, many ICANN-accredited registrars are now required to redact personal data from public records, which was previously available in ‘WHOIS’ databases,” ICANN explained.

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Ringgold and the FAIR Principles: How Ringgold Data and Metadata are Reusable

Velocity of Content

The FAIR principles are designed to address the necessary steps to make research data and the metadata attached to it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). The FAIR Principles are vital to enabling the use of data, not just for people, but more importantly for machines.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

No amendment offered in public session. If a 3 -step test is included, it could be designed to expand the flexibility, not shrink it. Measures A prohibition on circumvention of TPMs could extend protection to materials in the public domain or prevent the exercise of exceptions. 5- National Treatment Paragraph 5.2

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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Unfashionably Late: Seventh Circuit Rejects Misappropriation Claim Premised On Prototype Created Eleven Years Prior

LexBlog IP

REXA argued that Chester and MEA’s actuator incorporated and disclosed confidential designs contained within the prototype Koso developed in 2002. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Chester and MEA. REXA appealed. ” Id.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

For instance, AR could be designed to allow a visitor to access additional information about a particular piece of work, while VR could enable individuals who are unable to physically visit a museum to peruse its collections from the comfort of their own homes, at their own pace.

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

Patently-O

And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.” And, in addition the court noted that trade secrets protect a “most fundamental human right, that of privacy.”