TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2021

By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”. The site is used by researchers from all over the world, to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. For some, the site is essential to do their work. The major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society are not happy with the rogue research library.

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Publishing Higher Education Copyright Business 145

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The appellation of origin of the day is Mocha. Mocha is a city in Yemen, known as a market (not a grower) of coffee beans from the 15th through the 18th centuries. A great deal of the coffee was imported from Harar in Ethiopia. A mocha latte is a chocolate-flavored coffee beverage. This article suggests that beans from Mocha tasted chocolatey and not that the city began the practice of adding chocolate to coffee.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Laws that forbid the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted content are common around the world but the rise of streaming has sometimes exposed gaps in legislation. Piracy-equipped Kodi devices, illegal streaming apps, and similar tools have led legal specialists to attempt to apply laws that didn’t envision the technology. In Malaysia, for example, it took a decision by the High Court last May to determine that the sale and distribution of streaming devices configured for piracy

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Due Diligence Copyright Technology Copyright Law 137

Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 18, 2021

David Bernstein weighs in on an issue, not irrelevant to this blog (where the First Amendment is a topic), I blogged about on Dean’s World a few weeks ago (I. The post One nation, under gods appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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?

Technology

IAM Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Saturday Opinion: Surprising results of a survey published in IAM last month show that there’s plenty of room to improve the way top-level management is apprised of patent and brand threats.

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Branding Brands Branding IP 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

This case involves two apps that Apple rejected from its app store. The Coronavirus Reporter app “sought to collect ‘bioinformatics data’ from users about COVID-19 symptoms that it would then share with ‘other users and [unidentified] epidemiology researchers.'” Sounds sketchy as hell. Apple rejected it based on its policy that any COVID-19 apps had to come from the government or medical institutions.

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Reporting Law Contracts Advertising 101