Sat.Dec 11, 2021

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Major Manga Publishers Try to Identify Operators of Massive Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

As we have reported on many occasions in recent years, the lowly DMCA subpoena can be a powerful tool to discover the identities of those running pirate sites. Cheap to file in court and rarely given much scrutiny, DMCA subpoenas are regularly served on third-party service providers such as Cloudflare and domain registries, requiring them to hand over customer data.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. I’ve blogged three yearbook cases so far this year ( Callahan v. Ancestry , Knapke v. Classmates , and Sessa v. Ancestry ), and today I’ll blog two more. In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases.

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Warhol Foundation petitions U.S. Supreme Court

Clancco

Warhol’s estate says there is a “cloud of legal uncertainty over an entire genre of visual art.” A little drastic perhaps but if there’s a fair use case the U.S. Supreme Court would grant a hearing, it’s probably this one.

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The Revenge of the Internet Archive: Google and the Metashills Lead the Long March Through State Houses to Weaken Copyright for the Metaverse

The Trichordist

The Google Shills are at it again--now they want to geek around the Constitution with a state compulsory license.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?

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Immoral / scandalous test lives at PTO

Likelihood of Confusion

John Welch reports on a denial of a Spanish-language mark upheld on that basis, which continues to puzzle me, though it does not bother me in the least. Welch, ever. The post Immoral / scandalous test lives at PTO appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSIONâ„¢.

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Warhol Foundation Cert Petition

The Art Law Blog

Story here. Background here.

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