Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) is the new copyright small-claims court that was introduced in the CASE Act, which as passed in December 2020. The court itself has been open since June of this year and, as of this writing, some 151 cases have been filed with it.
Hugh Stephens Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
As Bill C-18 continues its deliberate journey down the Canadian Parliamentary legislative track on its way toward enactment, the Bill’s prime targets (Alphabet, in the form of Google Search and Meta in the form of Facebook) continue to deploy the full force of their lobbying efforts to derail the legislation.
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Michael Geist
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
The Senate Bill C-11 hearings have provided a model for the much-needed, engaged, non-partisan inquiry that was largely missing from the House committee’s theatrics in which the government cut off debate on over 150 amendments.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe. In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites. In some cases, these blocking efforts are part of voluntary agreements. Cloudflare ‘Pirate’ Blocking Orders.
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IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
This morning, the full U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary convened an executive business meeting during which the committee advanced S. 673, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA).
SpicyIP
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Image from here. Battle lines are being drawn in the fight over the lucrative mRNA vaccine technology used in certain Covid 19 vaccines. Moderna recently sued Pfizer alleging patent infringement of three out of eight patents that cover its Covid 19 vaccine (Spikevax).
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Hugh Stephens Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The lamented passing of artist and activist Lucinda Turner in Vancouver in early July reminded many of the struggle she engaged in to protect Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous artforms from counterfeiting and copyright infringement.
Michael Geist
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The first three posts in this series on Bill C-11 have focused on the risks of regulating user content , the risks to Canadian creators , and the risks of increased consumer costs and less competition.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
In 2017, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince decided to terminate the account of the controversial neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer. “I I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet,” he wrote at the time.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Patents that are expected to protect a company’s most valuable innovations must stake a claim to that innovation and be equipped to defend it.
Managing IP
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
It’s a buyer’s market and deals were down in Q2 2022, but sellers with strong patents can still entice purchasers. Default Analysis United States Patents IP Strategy
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. .
Hugh Stephens Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Last month, I discussed the ephemeral art of US sand sculptor Jim Denevan, noting that the simplest way for Denevan to protect his monumental sand designs (if he wished to), was by photographing them.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
In Integrated Technology Solutions v. iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, 2022 WL 4356494, (D. 20, 2022), plaintiff ITS asserted at least U.S. Patent No. 10,046,231 claim 15 against iRacing. That claim reads. By: Holland & Knight LLP
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Last year, the UK music industry claimed a major victory in its fight against online piracy. Following a two-year process initiated by the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the High Court ordered major ISPs to block access to several YouTube rippers.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The waning days of summer signal the approaching midterm election season.
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Dear Authors (“the undersigned”): It’s not your fault. You mean well. But you are simply wrong to have signed that letter—the one written and orchestrated by Fight for the Future (FFTF), which misrepresents the case Hachette et al., v Internet Archive as an attack on libraries.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
1A few weeks ago, we took a look at the first 100 cases filed with the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), the recently launched copyright small claims court in the United States. There, we noticed several patterns.
Hugh Stephens Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Omegle case, a potentially ground-breaking suit in the US in which an internet platform, Omegle, was denied the use of the Section 230 liability immunity defence by a judge in Oregon.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Many resources are available to help applicants with ST.26 implementation and WIPO Sequence software navigation: USPTO Resources WIPO Resources Subscribe to “WIPO Sequence Updates” email notifications here to stay up to date on WIPO Sequence releases and issues: WIPO Sequence Updates. By: Harness I
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Legal streaming services offering access to top tier football in Europe have a few unique selling points over piracy platforms. Perhaps most importantly, people who subscribe to legal services help to keep the game alive.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A new intellectual property (IP) organization launched today will be headed by former vice president of U.S. policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), Frank Cullen, and features a Board of Directors comprised of bipartisan frontrunners in the IP realm.
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Welp (as the kids say), it looks like Katherine Trendacosta of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found an old PowerPoint deck from 2012 and used it to write a new post ominously titled Hollywood’s Insistence on New Draconian Copyright Rules Is Not About Protecting Artists.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Yesterday, at YouTube’s Made on YouTube live event, YouTube announced some major changes, including a push to monetize shorts and a revamping of the Partner Program. . However, perhaps the most significant change is happening on the copyright side of things.
Olartemoure Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
09/22/22 – Innovation. Science, Technology, and Innovation projects in the Bioeconomy sector can now access differentiated lines of credit through BANCOLDEX.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
In yet another example of the law trying to keep up with technology, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision in Hermès International, et al. Mason Rothschild that examines traditional trademark concepts in connection with non-fungible tokens, or “NFTs.”.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
One can only imagine the crew’s screams of pain when they discovered that a clerical error had robbed ‘Night of the Living Dead’ of its copyright protections. George A. Romero’s masterpiece opened in 1968 to audiences largely unprepared for its genius.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
In its third precedential patent opinion this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) earlier today upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding that Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. failed to show that certain claims of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.’s
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Apropos my recent response to the EFF’s standard policy of shrugging at online piracy, I want to highlight one paragraph from the post to which I replied.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
In Russia, Andrei Zaykin has been put under house arrest over allegations that he donated 1,000 ruble ($16) to an opposition leader’s anti-corruption foundation. That foundation was marked as “extremist” by Russian authorities last year and, if found guilty, he faces up to eight years in prison.
Olartemoure Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
09/08/22 – Corporate. The Center of Arbitration of the Bogota Chamber of Commerce launched a new arbitration service for corporate and business disputes.
JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
In a ruling that should surprise absolutely nobody, the Federal Circuit rapidly scrapped an appeal of a PTAB decision that affirmed a 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejection of a business method claim.
TorrentFreak
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
When the Google-sponsored Open Handset Alliance launched its Android operating system, few could’ve predicted its future role in the piracy ecosystem.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Novartis Pharmaceuticals announced today that it will appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC’s) June decision invalidating its patent for a dosing regimen for its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya to the U.S. Supreme Court, after the CAFC denied its request to rehear the case.
The Illusion of More
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
I have written extensively about state sovereign immunity (a.k.a.,11th 11th Amendment immunity) as it relates to copyright owners’ inability to hold states and state actors liable for recklessly and knowingly infringing protected works.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: The Texas Chainsaw Copyright Infringement? Bastrop County Business Sued by Film Copyright owner.
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