Sat.Jun 18, 2022

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Anti-Piracy Jobs From £10/hr to ‘Let’s Talk ££’, There’s No Shortage in the UK

TorrentFreak

Alongside the explosion of online piracy services over the last couple of decades, new anti-piracy companies have emerged offering to dampen down the flames. Most have their own specialties and target markets, with some even claiming to be 99% or 100% effective in one area or another. The reality is that no sane person invests time and money into a company with a mission to ensure its own demise.

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The metaverse, NFTs and IP rights: to regulate or not to regulate?

WIPO Magazine

Over the last year, the metaverse and NFTs have fueled debates about their anticipated global impact and the question of whether there is an urgent need for new regulations to adapt to these new innovations.

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Content Moderators’ Lawsuit Over Traumatic Work Fails Again–Aguilo v. Cognizant

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves Cognizant, a business process outsourcer (BPO) that performed content moderation work for Facebook. (Cognizant has since exited the field). In 2021, a federal court dismissed a putative class action lawsuit against Cognizant for trauma experienced by the content moderators. See Garrett-Alfred v. Facebook. Some of the content moderators in that case filed a new lawsuit in state court, which Cognizant removed back to federal court, where the court dismisses it again.

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Artificial intelligence: deepfakes in the entertainment industry

WIPO Magazine

From traditional entertainment to gaming, deep fake technology has become increasingly convincing and accessible to the public. But what impact is this technology likely to have on the entertainment and media ecosystem?

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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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Huawei’s innovative IoT SEP deal; Corporates seek patent cash; Covid IP waiver done; Fish & Richardson tops US grants table; All the IPBC Global news; 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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Apheris: solving the data privacy dilemma

WIPO Magazine

How do you enable sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools while respecting the privacy and protecting Intellectual Property of data assets? Apheris, a Berlin-based startup believes federated learning provides the answer.

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Tech transfer at NASA: bringing NASA technology down to earth

WIPO Magazine

NASA’s well-established technology transfer program is reaching out to support startup companies and a greater range of entrepreneurs, enabling space-age inventions to transform products from bicycles to medical devices.

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First, do no harm must be the guiding principle of patent system reform

IAM Magazine

Recent comments by USPTO Director Kathi Vidal on rethinking everything are not unreasonable, but must be followed by the gathering of hard evidence that any changes will make things better.

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Villgro Africa: helping health startups take their ideas to market

WIPO Magazine

Find out how Villgro Africa, a Nairobi-based business incubator and early-stage investor focusing on health and life sciences, is working to transform Africa’s innovation landscape and helping startups take their ideas to market.

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Huawei’s innovative IoT SEP deal; Corporates seek patent cash; Covid IP waiver done; Fish & Richardson tops US grants table; All the IPBC Global news; 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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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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IP and youth: educating our future innovators

WIPO Magazine

Young people today are demanding an education that will give them with the knowledge and skills to make sustainability a reality. How are educators responding and what are the benefits of entrepreneurial education in a rapidly changing world?

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Bill C-11 Enters a Danger Zone: Government Shifts from Ignoring Witnesses on User Content Regulation to Dismissing Criticisms as “Misinformation”

Michael Geist

The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage heard from a total of 48 witnesses as individuals or representing organizations during its study of Bill C-11 (excluding the CRTC and government officials). Of those 48, at least 16 either raised concerns about the regulation of user content in the bill or disputed government claims about its effect. Liberal, NDP and Bloc MPs proposed and voted for amendments in Bill C-11 raised by a single witness or organization, but somehow the testimony of one-thir

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Eco Panplas: better recycling of lubricant containers

WIPO Magazine

Find out how the award-winning solution developed by Eco Panplas, a small Brazilian company is helping to make the recycling of machine lubricant containers cleaner, safer and more cost-effective.

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New generation memory chips promise to cut energy use

WIPO Magazine

Dr. Shunpei Yamazaki, a pioneer in the field of semiconductors and founder and President of Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. in Japan, explains how new generation memory chips promise to cut energy use.

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