Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2023

In my year end blog post looking back at significant developments for copyright and creators in 2022 and looking forward to topics that will be at the top of the agenda in 2023, I identified questions over the legality of a contrived and unproven concept, so-called “Controlled Digital Lending” (CDL), as one of the big … Continue reading "“Controlled Digital Lending”: Could Canadian Universities Find Themselves Out on a Limb?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 7, 2023

In March 2021, DISH Network filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against pirate IPTV provider ChitramTV, demanding $31 million in damages. The DISH lawsuit targeted the entire service, but attention quickly focused on Dinesh Vigneswaran of ChitramTV Canada, who allegedly sold subscriptions via Chitram.ca. DISH said that during a telephone call with one of its investigators, Vigneswaran confirmed his involvement with ChitramTV when he said he had 60 resellers and a warehouse in the United State

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Litigation Copyright Infringement Copyright Law 121

Likelihood of Confusion

JANUARY 7, 2023

Part one and part two of this three-part post were published earlier this week. When the PTO’s decision revoking the REDSKINS registrations was affirmed by the TTAB, I asked, as. The post Indian givers (part 3) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 7, 2023

by Dennis Crouch. I just gave a short (45 min) talk about the past year in patent law. See the slides here: Patent Year in Review. Key points: Director Review and Ex Parte Lobbying : Exercising the constitutional right to petition the government via shadow request for director review. Full Scope Enablement and Written Description : Increased focus by both the USPTO and the Federal Circuit.

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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

IAM Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2023

Saturday Opinion: The IAM team is once again passing around the crystal ball and predicting the shape of things to come

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IP 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 7, 2023

Censorship. * Wired : China Is Tightening Its Grip on Big Tech. * NY Times : ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future. * NY Times : How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step. * Wired : Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers. * Jodi Short et al, “ The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Looking for Techno-Libertarian Ideology in a Decade of Public Discourse about Big Tech Regulation.” A group of researchers documented how political rhet

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