Mon.May 17, 2021

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Why SNL’s “Muppets” Parody Had Even the Media Fooled

Copyright Lately

“Saturday Night Live’s” literal beat down of “The Muppet Show” so closely resembled the classic Jim Henson characters that some viewers thought the Muppets had really made an appearance on the show. Did SNL go too far? Parody is tricky, both as an art form and as a matter of copyright law. Any effective parody requires the audience to immediately recognize the underlying work held up to ridicule.

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Crypto patent boss: bitcoin lawsuit filed to help industry ‘grow’

Managing IP

Max Sills, general manager at the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance and counsel for Square, sets out his ambitions for IP and cryptocurrencies

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Proposal for a regulation on the use of artificial intelligence: fundamental rights mark the red lines

Garrigues Blog

Proposal for a regulation on the use of artificial intelligence: fundamental rights mark the red lines. Rita Gomes, Associate, Intellectual Property Department. The European Commission has just published its proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (AI) which seeks to strike a balance between its intention to promote the use of artificial intelligence, while at the same time establishing certain limits and rules on its use in order to offset certain risks

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Spotlight on Commerce: MiYong Kim, Operating Committee Chair, Bureau of Industry and Security

U.S. Department of Commerce

Spotlight on Commerce: MiYong Kim, Operating Committee Chair, Bureau of Industry and Security. May 17, 2021. KCPullen@doc.gov. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 09:08. MiYong Kim, Operating Committee Chair, Bureau of Industry and Security. . Guest blog post by MiYong Kim, Operating Committee Chair, Bureau of Industry and Security. I am the Chair of the Operating Committee (OC) at the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

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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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Are Your Textbooks Legit?

BYU Copyright Blog

On March 8, 2021, Pearson Education, Inc.; Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning; Cengage Learning, Inc.; and McGraw Hill LLC (collectively the "Publishers") filed suit against Bookholders LLC, a textbook retailer ("Bookholders"). The Complaint alleges that, at least since 2017, Bookholders has been distributing counterfeit copies of legitimate textbooks produced by the Publishers.

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CPA Global hit with new class action claim

Managing IP

The IP services provider overcharged clients for renewals in a “deliberate and systematic” scheme, the lawsuit claims

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