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Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty

TorrentFreak

When copyright holders discuss online piracy, they often highlight the associated losses. However, not all pirated downloads equal a loss. While there is certainly a group of pirates who simply refuse to pay for content, there are also people who simply can’t afford it. Piracy and Poverty. This is particularly true for software, which can be rather pricey.

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Debugging the software talent gap in aerospace and defense

McKinsey Operations

As aerospace and defense players accelerate their mission to transition from hardware to software, we see four talent imperatives.

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Teva Tells SCOTUS CAFC Decision Could Upend Hatch-Waxman

IP Watchdog

On July 11, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in which the CAFC found that Teva could be held liable for inducement based on sections of a “skinny label” that provided information about unpatented uses. Teva claims that the decision by the CAFC would upend the legal rules governing the modern prescription-drug marketplace.

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New Lawsuit Shows How Copyright Termination Can Ruin Estate Plans

Copyright Lately

Composer Jay Livingston’s granddaughter is suing her mother for exercising copyright termination rights in “Que Sera, Sera” and other popular songs. A new complaint over song royalties is a good reminder that the best-laid plans of mice and musicians can go awry if their lawyers don’t properly understand copyright termination.

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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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Inducing Infringement with the Skinny Label

Patently-O

Hypo : Copycat would like to copy Competitor’s product. The patent covering the product expired as have patents covering some methods-of-use, but Competitor still has one method-of-use patent in force. The question–when you sell its product, how careful does Copycat need to be to avoid inducing infringement? This hypothetical situation gets trickier when we are talking about FDA regulated drugs because the FDA dictates labeling content for generic (ANDA) filers.

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Information Wants to be Free; MS Pirate Does, Too

Likelihood of Confusion

The Internet Cases blog reports that there’s nothing “unconstitutionally overbroad or vague” about the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, and that if you sell someone else’s software on a website. The post Information Wants to be Free; MS Pirate Does, Too appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-07-16

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-07-09 [link] 2022-07-10. Copyright’s International Conventions: The Importance of Membership-Part 1 (The United States and the Berne Convent… [link] 2022-07-11. Supreme Court to release the making available copyright decision Friday morning [link] 2022-07-11. Publishers are out for blood against Internet Archive [link] 2022-07-11.

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Avanci hikes 4G rate; Ericsson nixes Apple in Colombia; China targets SEP owners; Samsung wins with Vidal Fintiv change; World’s biggest TM portfolios; 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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Bungie Sues Twitch-Streaming Destiny Cheater ‘MiffysWorld’ For Being Awful

TorrentFreak

The RIAA was well within its legal rights when it sued thousands of file-sharers in the early 2000s. But it looked bad. Like really bad. The sight of corporate lawyers crushing everyone from students to moms and dads was a PR disaster. In today’s social media-powered world, it would’ve been devasting. Interestingly, a brand new lawsuit filed by Bungie against what initially seemed like an ordinary guy may actually end up having the opposite effect in its gaming community.