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Spammers Exploit IMDb to Promote Fishy Movie Piracy Sites

TorrentFreak

The Internet Movie Database ( IMDb ) is one of the oldest online repositories to cement its place in Internet history. The service actually predates the world wide web and was initially launched as the Usenet group “rec.arts.movies” Three years later, it moved to the web in the form of the now widely known IMDb.com. Ever since, the site has served multiple generations of video fanatics.

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From Nonprofit to $29 Billion Valuation – The Promise and Danger of OpenAI

IP Watchdog

The research lab behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot, OpenAI, is in talks to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at around $29 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, reported the Wall Street Journal on January 5. This would make OpenAI, which started life as a nonprofit and generates virtually no revenue, one of the most valuable U.S. startups.

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@davidclowery: Silicon Valley’s Loophole Arbitrage on Display Yet Again with OpenAI

The Trichordist

David explains how "OpenAI" is just another example of Silicon Valley's loophole arbitrage.

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Copyright Violations Being Caused by Online Streaming

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction. When someone violates a creator’s exclusive rights to a piece of work, they are engaging in copyright infringement. All forms of dissemination (selling ,performing, broadcasting, etc.), modification, and other forms of copying of the work fall under this category. Music as well as the movie industry are two common industries that face copyright issues on a day to day basis.

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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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Susan Crawford: Why I Voted For XXX

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2007-03-31 23:09:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. Susan Crawford explains, at considerable length, why she voted with the minority at ICANN on the defeated proposal to open up. The post Susan Crawford: Why I Voted For XXX appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Infringement of copyright and fair usage of IP Laws

IIPRD

Copyright infringement & fair use. The term ‘Intellectual’ implies that it is specific to the mind or talent. Thus, Intellectual property refers to the creation of the human mind. It is non-physical (intangible) and it derives its value from ideas. It is a legal concept that confers the right to owners and creators of the work, for their intellectual creativity.

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes by Juvan Bonni

Patently-O

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Blake Brittain: U.S. Supreme Court Has Busy Year Ahead for Intellectual Property Law (Source: Reuters). George Tziras: Small Pharma Announces Completion of SPL026 Phase IIa Trial and Secures New Intellectual Property (Source: Yahoo Finance). Blake Brittain: Moderna Blasts Pfizer Counterclaims in COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Lawsuit (Source: Reuters).

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Patent Office Sustainability and the Role of Artificial Intelligence

WIPO Magazine

To improve processing times, a number of patent offices are turning to AI-powered solutions to help them tackle the rising volume and complexity of patent applications.

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What’s coming in mRNA IP wars; F-Star national security concerns; InterDigital deal updates; Samsung-Adeia renewal; Brazilian blow to patent terms; 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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Summary Judgement in Seattle: Inventorship and Noninfringement without an Expert Report

CoCal IP Law Institute

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023. As we start the third decade of SoCal IP Law Group, we have some court decisions on fairly fundamental issues of patent law and procedure. In Plastipak v Premium Waters, the Federal Circuit (J Stark) vacated and remanded on whether the plaintiff had sufficient rights to sue for infringement. [.

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IPO Diversity in Innovation Toolkit

Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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What’s coming in mRNA IP wars; F-Star national security concerns; InterDigital deal updates; Samsung-Adeia renewal; Brazilian blow to patent terms; 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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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-01-07

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-12-31 [link] 2023-01-01. Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat) (23 December 2022) who owns IP rig… [link] 2023-01-02. Copyright Office Sets Sights on Artificial Intelligence in 2023 [link] 2023-01-02. Epic Games, Developer of Fortnite, Will Pay Half a Billion Dollars for Privacy and Consumer Violations [link] 2023-01-03.

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Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music & Software of ‘Unfriendly’ Nations

TorrentFreak

In 1994, a new Belarusian constitution led to a democratic presidential election from which Alexander Lukashenko emerged as the country’s leader. Lukashenko remains in power today due to a series of landslide election ‘victories’, a similar result in a referendum to remove presidential term limits, and the support of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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