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California Appellate Court Rejects Poorly Executed “Sign-In Wrap”–Sellers v. JustAnswer (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

By guest blogger Kieran McCarthy. Contracts are a state-law issue. And online contracts, even though they exist in the friction-less, boundary-less world of the internet, are also generally governed by state-law principles. Which is why it is perhaps odd that the law of online contracts is such an echo chamber of federal court opinions interpreting other federal court opinions.

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A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by GraphicMama-team via Pixabay. In 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) set out to conduct empirical research on the impact of copyright exceptions. We felt that there was a shortage of papers demonstrating the benefits of exceptions for users of protected works. We soon realized that information about the changes to copyright law over time – which would be especially useful for empirical studies – was lacking.

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Rightsholders See Iraq as a ‘Corrupt’ Hotbed for Online Piracy, Ask the U.S. to Step In

TorrentFreak

Piracy is a global phenomenon but some countries have better enforcement options than others when it comes to dealing with the problem. In Iraq, tackling copyright infringement appears to have very little priority. This isn’t a new phenomenon. When U.S. troops were still stationed in Iraq, rightsholders found out that American soldiers were picking up the local habit.

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Press Release: 2022 Super Lawyers® Georgia Rising Stars® List

LexBlog IP

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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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ACE Seize Pirate IPTV Domains, Press Cloudflare to Hand Over Identitities

TorrentFreak

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and their partners in the Alliance of Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) are on a mission to slash the online availability of pirated movies and TV shows. The activities of the groups are rarely made public until services are actually taken down, following legal action in US courts, for example. However, OSINT sources can be utilized to find out which sites are already on the anti-piracy groups’ radar, including some that may have already fallen but yet

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Virtual seizure of virtual counterfeits

Likelihood of Confusion

Implicating, of course, real money. Hat tip to Stacia Lay. Originally posted 2008-02-05 12:06:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. The post Virtual seizure of virtual counterfeits appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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BB patent buyer’s NPE links; Dutch courts' patent boom; SEP licensors key Western assets; EU closer to SPC harmonisation; Caltech’s $1 billion loss; plus much more

IAM Magazine

Get ready for the new working week with a summary of all the stories posted on the IAM platform over the past seven days.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-02-12

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-02-05 [link] 2022-02-06. Kardashian and Other Celebrities Sued Over Crypto Promotion [link] 2022-02-07. Subrogation Actions Following Ransomware Claims: What Policyholders Should Expect in the Ever-Changing Cyber Insura… [link] 2022-02-07. Exclusive: India recognises AI as co-author of copyrighted artwork [link] 2022-02-09.

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Examining Tillis’ Proposal for a One-Stop IP Shop

IP Watchdog

North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis has raised the possibility of a combined patent, trademark and copyright office so as to improve the federal government’s approach to all aspects of intellectual property. On January 26, the Senator sent a letter to the Chairman and Counsel for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) to undertake a study into whether there should be a unified, independent Intellectual Property Office.