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Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to Publication of Private Emails–Crowley v. Faison

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Faison runs the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM). She received several racist and offensive emails from an email address purporting to be Karra Crowley. Faison posted the emails to BLM’s Facebook page and identified Karra as the sender. Predictably, the blowback against Karra and her family/business was severe, including death threats.

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Reproducing a Photo of a Statue

Dear Rich IP Blog

Dear Rich: As I understand copyright, if I visit a park and take a photo of a statute, I own the copyright to the photo and I can use it in a book. But if I open a magazine and take a photo of an illustration, I still own the copyright to the photo, but using it in a book would be a copyright violation. Why is it different? Actually, they're not different.

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Nitro IPTV Faces $100m Piracy Damages But it Could’ve Been Worse

TorrentFreak

In April 2020, a coalition of entertainment companies led by Universal, Paramount, Columbia, Disney and Amazon filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of ‘pirate’ IPTV service Nitro TV. The case , which encompassed alleged operator Alejandro “Alex” Galindo, wife Anna Galindo, and YouTuber ‘ Touchtone ‘, is still ongoing but things haven’t gone well for the defendants thus far.

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IP profession sorely needs targeted recruitment programmes to overcome ‘motherhood penalty’

IAM Magazine

Working mothers have left the workforce in droves during the pandemic, which is sure to cause a detrimental impact on an IP profession that already has a huge gender imbalance.

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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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Goldman: The SOPA and the PIPA and the Santa Fe

Likelihood of Confusion

No, not really the Santa Fe, but the rhythm of it seemed right, and after last week’s Benny Goodman post, well, I’m feeling nostalgic for my 1930’s childhood. (Shh, go with. The post Goldman: The SOPA and the PIPA and the Santa Fe appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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