Sat.Jul 02, 2022

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Good Faith Doctrine and NFTs – How a Bored Ape NFT Dilemma May Present Unique Copyright and Contract Issues

IP Watchdog

Can something called a “Bored Ape” be embodied in a non-fungible token (NFT) and be associated with smart contracts? How could this present unique and challenging issues regarding copyright law? Over the course of the last two months, the general public has tracked what started out as a phishing scam involving actor Seth Green’s NFT from the Board Ape Yacht Club.

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UK Govt. Prepares to Dissolve Anti-Piracy Group & Seize Its Assets

TorrentFreak

Most higher-tier anti-piracy groups are interested in taking down illegal sites, services and other commercial-scale pirates. Many of their targets are given multiple warnings before anything terrible happens because ending their piracy is the main goal. If that can be achieved without a legal battle, it’s better for everyone and it’s cheaper for everyone too.

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Italian Supreme Court considers search engines hosting providers and finds them potentially eligible for the application of the hosting safe harbour

The IPKat

In 2000, the EU legislature adopted the landmark Ecommerce Directive , which provides – at certain conditions – for limitations of liability of certain information society service providers (ISSPs) as potentially arising out of illegal activities committed by users of their services. The Ecommerce Directive safe harbours are available to mere conduit (Article 12), caching (Article 13), and hosting (Article 14) providers.

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Urban Smear

Likelihood of Confusion

We’ve blogged on graffiti before. Wordsmith to the stars Jane Genova reports on a little commercial free speech applied a bit too freely — as in, on other people’s walls: The post Urban Smear appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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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Covid-19 has exposed the limits of compulsory licensing

IAM Magazine

The pandemic has brought the difficulties of bypassing life sciences IP into plain view