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Why Linus Tech Tips’ Pirate Box Video Got 2.3m Views & Official PSAs Get Ignored

TorrentFreak

Online piracy has always been linked to computer viruses and similar badware but for years that connection was rarely exploited by groups hoping to deter piracy. KaZaA and LimeWire users needed no reminder, of course. Several years ago, TorrentFreak was reliably informed that anti-piracy groups were preparing to push the piracy/malware nexus into the mainstream.

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New SEP Regulatory Framework and AI Copyright Legislation Advance in the European Union

IP Watchdog

On April 27, a pair of legal measures were advanced within the European Union that promise to greatly impact the state of technological commercialization within Europe for both standardized and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. While political leaders in the EU maintain that either proposal addresses consumer safety and competition concerns, multiple commentators have pointed out issues that could slow the rate of technological commercialization to the detriment of Europeans across the

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Establishing Guidelines for Patent Damages: The Garretson v. Clark Case of 1884

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch Calculating damages for patent infringement can be a complex task, particularly when the invention is an improvement to an existing machine or product. The Supreme Court’s 1884 decision in Garretson v. Clark , 111 U.S. 120, helped establish a rule requiring apportionment in cases involving improvement patents. The plaintiff, Garretson held two patents covering improved mop heads and sued the defendants for infringement.

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The state of the Africa creative economy: Thoughts on the Creative Vibrancy Index for Africa

The IPKat

Last week (27 April), the Creative Economy Practice at CcHUB launched the Creative Vibrancy Index for Africa (CVIA or the Index) which comprehensively ranks African cities based on their support for arts, culture and creative industries. The CVIA ranks 12 African cities: Accra, Cairo, Dakar, Dar-Es-Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, Luanda, Marrakech, Nairobi, and Tunis on their respective creative vibrancy defined as “ the capacity of a place to enable cultural and creative expressi

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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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Another AI Post? You bet.

LexBlog IP

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning companies to “Keep your AI claims in check.” An FTC Business Blog post states that consumers have been primed through generations of stories about inanimate objects coming to life to believe what marketers say about their products relative to artificial intelligence (AI), and that marketers should know that false or unsubstantiated claims about a product’s abilities and benefits will not be tolerated.

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Narrowing the scope of protection of figurative marks?

The IPKat

Normal 0 false 21 false false false DE X-NONE HE Both the EUIPO and General Court have had a tendency to grant a broad scope of protection for purely figurative marks. Below are several examples: Earlier mark Contested mark Decision Low degree of visual and average degree of conceptual similarity ( T-364/13 ) Average degree of visual similarity and high degree of conceptual similarity ( T-21/15 ) Average degree of visual and low to average degree of conceptual similarity ( R863/2020-2 ) Conceptu

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-04-29

Barry Sookman

Federal Court sides with Facebook in privacy case tied to Cambridge Analytica affair | CBC News [link] 2023-04-23 Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-04-22 [link] 2023-04-23 [link] 2023-04-23 Navigating Copyright Risks in Generative AI [link] 2023-04-24 USPTO is holding public listening sessions on AI inventorship for patents [link] 2023-04-24 [link] 2023-04-24 ICO Response to UK Government White Paper on AI Regulation [link] 2023-04-24 OSFI publishes Third-Party Risk Management Guidel

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Unilateral copyright law

Likelihood of Confusion

Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine. The North Country Gazette, a publication whose. The post Unilateral copyright law appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (April 24- April 29)

SpicyIP

[ This weekly review is co-authored with SpicyIP intern Devanshu Agrawal. Devanshu is a second-year student pursuing B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. ] Here are the quick summaries of the 4 posts, 12 case summaries, and other IP developments that took place last week. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on?