Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The days leading up to a new academic year at a university are typically filled with a mix of excitement and anticipation for both faculty and students alike. My Globe and Mail op-ed notes that this year, it brought trepidation and even fear for many in the Jewish community. At my own university, faculty attended training sessions on coping with potential classroom intruders, including tips for de-escalation strategies and detailed security procedures.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

In recent years, rightsholders of major sports events have repeatedly complained that piracy of live sports is rising through the roof. They’ve called on lawmakers to tighten legislation and urged law enforcement to take the problem much more seriously. Last month, U.S. authorities took action by seizing several domain names of sports streaming site Streameast, which has millions of monthly users.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Vitra's DSW chair One of the cornerstones of international copyright law – specifically: the Berne Convention (BC) – is the principle of national treatment under Article 5: authors who are nationals of a Berne Union member state are eligible for protection under the law of other member states at the same conditions as nationals of those countries. Like all rules, there are exceptions though: one of them concerns works of applied arts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I don’t fully understand exactly what’s happening with Telegram and Pavel Durov in France. However, I have observed how many people don’t know the history of governments prosecuting Internet executives for the content or actions of third parties using their services. I sent the following to a reporter: Europe has a long history of individually prosecuting Internet company executives for third-party content.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Originally posted 2012-10-31 19:16:13. Republished by Blog Post PromoterInstapundit.com – YES, THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A GROWING POLITICAL CONSENSUS in favor of shutting up the [sic] hoi polloi. I don’t even consider myself all that polloi, if you don’t mind my saying so. They’d just like us all to shut up. Could the new, somewhat […] The post Crunch time on speech — again appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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