TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Various courts around the world have come to the conclusion that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website. As a result, Internet providers in dozens of countries are required to block access to the site. This works well, but blocking measures are also quite easy to circumvent. Some people may resort to VPN services, for example, or replace the default DNS resolver provided by their ISP with independent alternatives.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Scroll through social media and you’re certain to find countless posts of images generated by artificial intelligence, or “AI.” Tools such as DALL-E 2, Starry AI, Jasper, and the like have exploded in popularity, allowing users to do everything from creating stylized versions of the user’s own photographs, to inputting silly, incongruous prompts like “red headed cow with John Lennon sunglasses,” and receiving almost instantaneous results with no further effort by the user.

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The Trichordist

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The MLC executive salaries are nauseatingly rich. Can they just pay out the black box?

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Licensing 143

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Nimitz Technologies — an alleged stalking horse for so-called patent troll IP-Edge — plans on going to the U.S. Supreme Court to fight a Delaware federal judge's headline-grabbing "inquisition" into its business practices, asking an appeals court to freeze that investigation until it files with the justices.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

It’s refreshing to see a “normal” Section 230 opinion from the Ninth Circuit. They have gotten rarer, and the Gonzalez opinion may make them extinct. Scott Rigsby is the first double-leg amputee to complete an Iron Man Triathlon. He registered “scottrigsbyfoundation.org” with GoDaddy.com in 2007. He didn’t pay the renewal fee in 2018 (allegedly due to a glitch in GoDaddy’s billing), so GoDaddy released the domain name.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Singer Rick Astley is leaning on decades-old precedent in his suit accusing rapper Yung Gravy of "flagrantly" copying his voice from "Never Gonna Give You Up," but legal experts told Law360 that the ruling he's citing may not apply in this case.

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Copying 96

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use. Does the status of that work or copy limited subsequent uses of it or transactions about it?

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The silly Accomplia sabre-rattling is over. Per the EFF, Sanofi-Aventis backed down: “Under terms of Tuesday’s settlement, AcompliaReport.com keeps its domain name, as long as there is a disclaimer stating. The post Mission Accomplia appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IAM Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Saturday Opinion: IAM deputy editor Angela Morris confronts the claim that 2022 US patent grants may indicate American industry is slipping in the global innovation race

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Patent 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Akshat Agrawal, Copyright's distortive effects Copyright directs investment to excludable assets. But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Music sampling: the tapestry/raw materials of early hip-hop practice make those kinds of works works assets that can’t attract investment. Reproduction right expanded to cover fragments.

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IAM Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Saturday Opinion: IAM deputy editor Angela Morris confronts the claim that 2022 US patent grants may indicate American industry is slipping in the global innovation race

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Patent 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Justin Koo, Exporting Fair Use to Developing Copyright Systems Difficult to grow when the law doesn’t have flexibility—across the Commonwealth Carribean. Either involuntarily imposed on us or adopted from UK w/o adaptation to local needs/lack of resources in former colonies. A relatively new willingness to litigate, but lack of awareness/understanding of copyright law in Carribean is a barrier.

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Creative Law Center

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Trump's lawsuit against Bob Woodward will be closely watched by journalists, documentary filmmakers, and podcasters alike. The post Who Owns the Copyright to Interview Recordings? appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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