Creative Law Center

MAY 7, 2023

Using Book Disclaimers to Protect Your Work and YourselfReal life inspires stories. It can't be helped. Writers observe, interpret, expound, and often twist based on what they see, hear, and how they feel about it. When a story has intimacy with reality, readers will see themselves in it. Sometimes what they see is not pretty, or […] The post Book Disclaimers: Tips for the Indie Author appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

Hosting companies, CDN platforms and consumer ISPs face an increasing risk of being held liable for the activities of their customers. At least in theory, copyright law in both the United States and Europe should provide adequate protections for intermediaries but if a chink appears in the armor, nothing can stop rightsholders filing a lawsuit. When they do, things can get very expensive, very quickly.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 7, 2023

Between the precedential Fintiv decision in March of 2020 and Director Vidal’s Guidance Memo regarding the application of Fintiv in June of 2022, the discretionary denial rates of inter partes review (IPR) institution decisions under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) plummeted from 40-50% to 11-16%. Coupled with the order issued by the Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas in July of 2022 declaring that all new patent cases filed in the Waco Division will be randomly assigned among the 12 judges in the

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The IPKat

MAY 7, 2023

Here’s the latest events and opportunities from the IPKat. G-IPTech Centre Inauguration Queen’s University Belfast will be launching its Global Intellectual Property and Technology (G-IPTech) Centre on June 5. The event will feature panels on globalisation, sustainability, creative economy, and fundamental rights. And Lord Justice Arnold will deliver the keynote speech, inaugurating the Centre and setting the stage for the panel discussions to follow.

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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

Barry Sookman

MAY 7, 2023

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-04-29 [link] 2023-04-30 [link] 2023-04-30 Advancing Cooperative AI Governance at the 2023 G7 Summit [link] 2023-04-30 Federal Agencies Release Joint Statement on AI [link] 2023-05-01 Generative AI: what could the future hold for IP and training data in the UK? [link] 2023-05-01 Google liable for $500,000 in damages for not delisting defamatory information: A.B. v Google [link] 2023-05-01 Harris Bricken Blog: Domestic and Foreign Legal News for Busine

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2023

With millions of fans all over the world, Spanish football league ‘ La Liga ’ is one of the most popular in the game. In common with similar sports organizations, La Liga has a dedicated anti-piracy team that actively tracks and reports unauthorized live streams. This sounds like a straightforward task but, in reality, it often turns into a perpetual stream of takedown notices.

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