Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

“It really surprises me that Google has decided that they would rather prevent Canadians from accessing news than actually paying journalists for the work they do. I think that’s a terrible mistake and I know that Canadians expect journalists to be well paid for the work they do.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waded into Bill C-18 and Google removing links to Canadian news articles in search results as part of a test for a small percentage of users yesterday with the quote cited above.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) released its decision this past week in Kristina Kashtanova's case about the comic book, Zarya of the Dawn. Kashtanova will keep the copyright registration, but it will be limited to the text and the whole work as a compilation. In one sense this is a success, as the Office was previously threatening to revoke the copyright altogether.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

During international holidays, news in a tight niche like ours can completely dry up, so when an exciting headline suddenly appears after 14 hours at a desk, things aren’t so bad after all. Sadly, ‘exciting’ headlines that began appearing around 2017 didn’t help. Dramatic news articles in UK tabloids often plagiarized articles published by TorrentFreak.

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Likelihood of Confusion

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Andrew Cory tipped me off to this article in the Law of the Game blog involving a judicial “seizure” of gaming-world “assets.” Talking to Andrew and tackling the article, I have the impression something very interesting is going on here. But the piece is so dense and loaded with jargon that I can’t really make heads or tails out of it.

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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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IAM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Saturday Opinion: Harfang IP argues against conclusions drawn in a recent study on SEP ask rates

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

My observations about the Supreme Court’s 2.5 hour long (and very tedious) oral arguments in the Taamneh v. Twitter case: The justices struggled to define the statute’s actus reus (did Twitter take a culpable action?) and mens rea (did Twitter have a culpable mental state?) requirements, especially as applied to an automated self-service tool like Twitter.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Changes in Trademark Law and Evidentiary Rules Introduction: Jake Linford Before courts admitted surveys routinely, they were concerned about hearsay. Sometimes rejecting surveys seems like judicial notice—“cola” as generic; the court doesn’t want to hear contrary survey evidence. Some objections go to the weight of the evidence. Instead of surveys, can we look at things like Google results or large text databases reflective of use in a particular community?

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