Hugh Stephens Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

For those of my readers outside Canada who may not have noticed, Canada has just held a general election. If many outside Canada were not following this election, many Canadians were also not focused on it. Voter turnout on election day, September 20, was just over 58 percent, close to an all-time low. The fact … Continue reading "Canada’s Pointless Pandemic Election and its Implications for Copyright, Content Industries and Digital Platforms?

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry by the Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee [ Katposts here ], which investigated the impact of music streaming on artists remuneration, as well as other issues around the fairness and sustainability of the wider music industry. Subsequently, the Committee published a report which set out a number of recommendations to Government [ Katpost here ] that included equitable remuneration for streaming, contract

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Over the years we have seen dozens of anti-piracy campaigns. Initially, many of these tried to appeal to people’s morals. You wouldn’t steal a car , right? This type of messaging doesn’t work for everyone, so more direct tactics are explored as well. These often focus on the risks that are involved. These risks obviously include legal trouble and settlement letters.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Kat friend Doug Calhoun reports on the complicated follow-up to the New Zealand case of infringement of gold kiwifruit. In a previous post , this blogger described how a plant variety right for a gold kiwifruit variety in New Zealand had been infringed by a rogue grower. In that decision, the grower was licensed to grow the variety in New Zealand, but it had exported budwood of the gold kiwifruit variety into China and thereby helped to establish substantial orchards there.

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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?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

This is another entry in the genre of publicity rights cases against commercial databases vending information about people. Courts are struggling with how to analyze these cases, especially in the context of paywalled yearbook databases. This ruling turns into a pretty bad loss for Ancestry because it can’t rely on Section 230 or shake the publicity rights claim on a motion to dismiss.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? If so, can rightholders request the providers of such a service to impose a levy even if their customers (natural persons) have already paid one when purchasing the devices (eg, computers, smartphones, tablets) subsequently used to undertake acts of reproduction covered by that provi

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IAM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

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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Barry Sookman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2021-09-18 [link] 2021-09-19. Copyright, AI and IOT: my submission to the consultation [link] 2021-09-20. Announcement: G7 data protection and privacy authorities meet to discuss challenges of regulating in an increasingl… [link] 2021-09-22. Communique: "Data Free Flow with Trust" – Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada [link] 2021-09-22.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Imagine a world where producers and owners of TV shows, movies and the not only upload full-length copyrighted video content onto the Web in the full knowledge that it will. The post Ads for pirates appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Marvel is battling copyright termination notices over some of its most famous and valuable characters. Here’s what it at all means. As you’ve probably heard by now, Disney-owned Marvel Characters, Inc. fired off a slew of copyright lawsuits this past Friday seeking to invalidate termination notices served over such blockbuster comic characters as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Black Widow and several other Avengers mainstays.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

You may remember 2014 as the year when we all discovered a plague of noncompete agreements threatening our economy. No? Let me help you. In June that year, the New York Times published an expose of sorts relating the story of a 19-year-old summer camp counselor who couldn’t get hired by a certain camp because the year before she signed a contract with another camp that blocked her from working for any nearby competitor.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Logo of Meher Distilleries (Image from here ). A few months back, a Single Judge bench of the Bombay High Court delivered what has now been revealed to be a very problematic decision on deceptive similarity in alcoholic beverage trademarks. Brought to light upon being set aside by the Division Bench, this decision rendered findings that threatened to set dangerous precedents on what constitutes a trademark, and how deceptive similarity is evaluated.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

AS?VA v. RAMPUR ASAWA: Bombay HC Sets the Record Straight on Deceptive Similarity. Logo of Meher Distilleries (Image from here ). In this post , Adyasha analyses a recent trademark infringement dispute before the Bombay High Court over the ‘RAMPUR AS?VA’ mark for alcoholic beverages. While the Single Judge bench ruled in favour of the defendant, the Division Bench overruled that order.

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