TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

For online media consumers, things have improved significantly over the years. More content is made available globally than ever before. In today’s on-demand society this is particularly important for new content. A geographical delay of a few days can be sufficient to drive some people to pirate sites. “Friends” Pirates. Availability is not only important for new releases though as iconic movies and TV shows always stay in high demand.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy. Those interested in web scraping legal issues had high hopes that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Van Buren v. United States last summer would provide clear guidelines on which types of online data access were permissible and which were not. And while most would agree that the Supreme Court avoided a worst-case scenario with its decision, it didn’t give us what many were hoping for.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Last summer, I lamented how the Department of Justice – Antitrust Division (DOJ), without Senate confirmed leadership, was hastily pushing through policies that augmented the already-enormous power of Big Tech and benefitted China’s interests. Similarly, I uncovered how the App Association, a Big Tech-funded advocacy organization masquerading as a group of small app developers, was able to trick the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into inviting it to speak at its July 2021 Commission meeting alon

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The IPKat Team was extremely saddened to hear about the concerning developments last week and wishes to stand in solidarity with all those who are suffering at this time. The news from The IPKat was as follows: Copyright The US Copyright Office (the Review Board) held that a work entirely created by a machine cannot be protected by copyright. PermaKat Eleonora Rosati provided a useful background and comments on this recent decision here.

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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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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Rob Fia: Therma Bright Receives Patent for a Device for Applying a Topical Treatment from USPTO (Source: Yahoo Finance). David Phelan: Apple AirPods To Gain Amazing Feature Update, Patent Hints (Source: Forbes). Finbarr Bermingham: EU Launches WTO Case Against China Over Huawei, Xiaomi Tech Infringements (Source: South China Morning Post).

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The IPKat is here for your Sunday round-up of events across the IP world. EVENTS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Queen Mary | University of London – “ IELR 5.1 pre-publication event: EULAs: Friends or Foes? ” 3 March 2022 – 18:00 – 19:00 CET (Online) The Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary is hosting an online seminar on the challenges between the access and distribution of copyright-protected content over the Internet.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

RetroKat After two sell-out years and two pandemic years, Retromark: the conference is back in the form of an afternoon of in-person trade mark law and practice hosted by Darren Meale of Simmons & Simmons and the IPKat on Tuesday 24 May (an earlier date was previously advertising, but we’ve pushed back owing to pandemic concerns). This year, Sir Robin Jacob leads a stellar cast of speakers who will explore some of the most important and interesting of trade mark topics.

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Barry Sookman

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-02-19 [link] 2022-02-20. Couldn’t Scrape By: BC Court Rejects Certification of Class Action against Facebook [link] 2022-02-21. 2021/2022 Cyber/Data Outlook: Strategic Uses of Data Anonymization and Data Minimization in Data Analytics | McCart… [link] 2022-02-21. How expansive is the GDPR's territorial reach?

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The week that is about to end has witnessed extremely concerning developments. The IPKat Team wishes to express its solidarity to all those who are suffering right now. Two Kats embracing the spirit of fraternity and friendship during difficult times. The coverage of blog news over the past few days is as follows: Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog posted an article discussing the threshold of originality and wonders if seasonal creations would eventually meet the threshold to ensure copyright

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Evan Brown reports (links added): The parties in the matter of Shell v. Devries, a case from the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, are no strangers to. The post More fair use follies — copyright infringement by court filing? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Guest Post by Samuel F. Ernst [1]. As expected , a panel of the Federal Circuit held last week that the PTO violated the First Amendment when it refused to register without his permission a mark criticizing former President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the Court did little more than that. The PTO had denied registration under a provision in the Lanham Act requiring it to do so when a mark “[c]onsists of or comprises a name. identifying a particular living individual” without the individual’s “wr

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Senate Democrats over the weekend pledged to move quickly on President Joe Biden's selection to join the Supreme Court and some Republicans left the door open to supporting Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, but neither side could resist sniping at each other over what has become a highly politicized process for filling open seats on the high court.

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