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Magnitude of Canada’s Piracy Problem “Nearly Impossible to Overstate”

TorrentFreak

According to at least one assessment, Canada is currently the third-best country in the world overall. When it comes to piracy issues, major U.S. rightsholders place Canada among the worst. In a report to the United States government, the powerful International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) pulls no punches. On behalf of the MPA, RIAA, Entertainment Software Association (ESA), Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Independent Film and Television Alliance, the IIPA lists dozens

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Where Were You When “Happy Birthday to You” Was Found to Be in the Public Domain?

Likelihood of Confusion

Newly discovered evidence [according to a court filing] “proves conclusively that Happy Birthday has been in the public domain since no later than 1922.” At stake is the more than. The post Where Were You When “Happy Birthday to You” Was Found to Be in the Public Domain? appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Humira patent saga rundown; university ownership of student inventions; a filing shift from Delaware; new US trade secrets law; Novartis German injunction; 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 2023-02-04

Barry Sookman

The Great Canadian Rip-Off | Prairie Dog [link] 2023-01-29 Yuga Says It Does Not Have ‘Copyright Registrations’ For Bored Apes [link] 2023-01-29 U.S. senators call for trade crackdown on Canada over digital tax [link] 2023-01-29 [link] 2023-01-29 Privacy and AI Governance Report – Executive Summary [link] 2023-01-29 Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2023-01-28 [link] 2023-01-29 Copyright in A.I. and A.I. on Copyright: The Law and What A.I.

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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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Humira patent saga rundown; university ownership of student inventions; a filing shift from Delaware; new US trade secrets law; Novartis German injunction; 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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[Guest post] Under the influence: Influencer marketing – when private individuals become professionals and (potentially) responsible for IP infringements

The IPKat

The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish another guest contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen , Hanne Kirk and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (all Gorrissen Federspiel) tackling influencer marketing from an IP perspective. Here’s what they write: Under the influence: Influencer marketing – when private individuals become professionals and (potentially) responsible for IP infringements by Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, Hanne Kirk and Thit Nymand Nisbeth When deciding what restaurant to

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 31- February 5)

SpicyIP

In the first week of the new month, here are our summaries of the 3 blogposts, 7 court orders and other national and international IP developments. Important IP cases that we’re missing out on? Especially from other High Courts? Please let us know so we can include them! Highlight of the week Delhi High Court makes a U turn on Secondary Meaning and Acquired Distinctiveness In a spicy turn of events, a division bench of Delhi High Court overruled the earlier order and held that SCHEZWAN CHUTNEY

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