TorrentFreak

MAY 21, 2023

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium and Brazil; just two letters of the alphabet and that’s already five countries that have implemented ISP blocking against The Pirate Bay. The growing list, which continues with Denmark and persists through Finland, France and Germany, doesn’t stop until it reaches the United Arab Emirates and finally, the UK.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 21, 2023

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is only a fortnight away; it will go live on June 1, 2023. No doubt, the UPC will become a game changer requiring diligent planning and preparation. In order to faciliate such preparation, we have been providing a series of articles that will deal with the most important aspects of the UPC. Whereas Part 1 focused on the designated UPC judges, Part 2 on the timelines and Part 3 on the remedies that are available at the UPC, this Part 4 will address the financial asp

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The Illusion of More

MAY 21, 2023

In this Court, the sole question presented is whether the first fair use factor, “the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit edu­cational purposes,” §107(1), weighs in favor of AWF’s recent commercial licensing to Condé Nast. Although the consideration in Andy Warhol Foundation […] The post New Guidance on “Transformative” Use in AWF v.

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The Trichordist

MAY 21, 2023

[this post originally appeared in MusicTech.Solutions as “Unrealized Losses and the Black Box Investment Policy” by Chris Castle. We asked him to update it a bit to… Read more "When Will the MLC Disclose How they Invest the Black Box Money?

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Licensing 90

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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WIPO Magazine

MAY 21, 2023

"We need a material revolution, and we need it now,” says Suzanne Lee, CEO and Founder of Biofabricate, a “sustainable biomaterial innovation” boutique that is educating companies on how to use micro-organisms to create a “new material world.

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Designs Design 52

Barry Sookman

MAY 21, 2023

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-05-13 [link] 2023-05-14 What Gives You Hope Keeps You Fighting [link] 2023-05-14 Contracting for tech under the AI provisions of CPPA, AIDA and Law 25 [link] 2023-05-14 Here to Stay: Ontario Court of Appeal upholds referral to arbitration and clarifies stay analysis | McCarthy Tétrau… [link] 2023-05-14 AI makes non-invasive mind-reading possible by turning thoughts into text | Artificial intelligence (AI) [link] 2023-05-14 PCAST Working Group on Gene

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SpicyIP

MAY 21, 2023

Image from here We are having a lot of trademark disputes these days (keep a check on our weekly reviews.); with every other day seeming to bring new issues to look at. In the last two weeks, I noticed three cases that intrigued me and made me wonder about their conceptual coherence. In this post, I present those cases and broach some questions for discussion.

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