TorrentFreak

JUNE 28, 2023

When The Pirate Bay launched nearly 20 years ago, its main goal was to become a bastion of free and uncensored information. The site categorically rejects takedown requests from copyright holders and allows anyone to upload almost anything. Since its early days, The Pirate Bay has always been free to use and open to the public at large. Those who wanted to share files only had to register an account, which was easy enough.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Cookbook author Joanne Lee Molinaro highlighted a copycat cookbook that has raised new questions about imitation in publishing. The post The Case of the Knock-Off Cookbook appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2023

On 2 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) received its first patent challenge of its existence. Here is a quick recap about the UPC, and a bit of info on these proceedings! What is the UPC? The UPC is a new patents court which came into force on 1 June 2023, made up of judges who are nationals of EU Member states that are participating in the UPC.

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Creative Law Center

JUNE 30, 2023

If you use AI technology to create work, you can claim copyright protection for your contribution to that work. Here's how to file your application for copyright registration. The post AI-generated Content and Copyright Registration appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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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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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

When an “irresistible force” meets an “immovable object”, the result is a classic paradox. That is, unless one of the two—or both—give way. If we assume the irresistible force is the Government of Canada in the form of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, and two giant internet platforms (Meta and Google) are the immovable … Continue reading "When the Irresistible Force of the Canadian Government Meets the Immovable Object of Meta and Google: What Happens Next for the Online News Act?

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2023

The worst case scenario for Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, the Canadian news sector, and the Canadian public has come to pass: Google has announced that it will block news links in Canada in response to the mandated payment for links approach established in Bill C-18. The decision, which the company says will be implemented before the law takes effect, will cover search, Google News, and Google Discover.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 29, 2023

A recent Newsguard report shines a light on the growth of AI spam news sites. Here's why Google has dropped the ball. The post The Predictable Rise of Generative AI Spam appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

“ Perhaps I’ll be remembered in history as the banana imbecile ”, summed up provocative and uber-creative artist Maurizio Cattelan in a recent interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. I personally love everything by Cattelan and among other things I did enjoy the recent exhibition in Florence about his and other contemporary artists’ work.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2023

On the same day the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023 was introduced by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), the two senators, along with their colleagues, Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), introduced the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act today. The bill’s aim is to reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and would build upon Coons’ STRONGER Patents Act, introduced in 2019.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Whether the decision against Internet Archive in the U.S. will have a chilling effect on controlled digital lending practices in Canada remains to be seen. Earlier this year, a U.S. district court ruled that San Francisco–based non-profit Internet Archive (IA) infringed the copyright of four international publishing houses when it loaned unlicensed digital copies of … Continue reading "Implications of the U.S.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2023

The damage caused by the government’s Bill C-18 continues to grow as Meta has started to cancel its existing agreements with Canadian publishers. The move should not come as a surprise since any deals that involve facilitating access to news content would bring the company into the legislative framework and mandate payments for links. Indeed, Meta said earlier this week that its 18 existing deals “ did not have much of a future.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2023

Pirate sites come and go, often without being noticed by the public at large. That was certainly not the case when RARBG said its goodbyes yesterday. The popular torrent site had millions of daily users spread across several domain names. This included the flagship.to domain which currently displays a farewell message. After a brief intermezzo, many users simply began their search for alternatives, perhaps unaware that the effects of RARBG’s shutdown go beyond the site itself, leading to a

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2023

There are countless tools to detect AI writing, however, all of them have a critical weakness. None give us the certainty to act. The post The Major Obstacle to Detecting AI Writing appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The IPKat

JUNE 19, 2023

This is a review of Intellectual Property Excesses: Exploring the Boundaries of IP Protection , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City University London) and Aislinn O’Connell (Royal Holloway University of London). As the title suggests, this edited collection assembles examples of disputes that highlight IP at its most extreme, taking it to, what the editors refer to as “sometimes absurd outcomes which an unjustified overprotection of intellectual property may lead to.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 29, 2023

On Wednesday, June 28, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) hosted a virtual event exploring guidance for registration of works containing generative artificial intelligence (AI) content. The hour-long event included a recap of the USCO’s previously released policy guidance and the Zarya of the Dawn partial registration refusal, staff walking through numerous examples of how AI technologies are being used, and a Q&A session consisting of pre-planned and live audience discussion.

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43(B)log

JUNE 20, 2023

Takahashi-Mendoza v. Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools, 2023 WL 3856722, No. 22-cv-05086-JST (N.D. Cal. May 19, 2023) Plaintiff sued defendant, which does business as Organic Valley, under the CLRA and UCL, challenging labels on milk that say: 1. “Organic Valley’s commitment to the highest organic standards and animal care practices helps make all our food delicious and nutritious”; 2.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 9, 2023

The government released its long-promised draft policy direction on Bill C-11 to the CRTC yesterday. The policy direction is open for public comment until July 25, 2023, after which the government will release a final version that gives the CRTC guidance on its expectations for how the bill will be interpreted. While Canadian Heritage was at pains to emphasize that the draft direction includes instructions that the “CRTC is directed not to impose regulatory requirements on online undertakings in

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 18, 2023

Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or make it harder to find. The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate, but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag legal websites as copyright-infringing. It is particularly ironic when these mistakenly targeted sites are supposed to help the public find their way to the right streaming service.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 14, 2023

An Italian photographer is facing allegations after winning several awards using another photographer's work. Here's how to prevent it. The post How a Photographer Won Awards with Plagiarized Images appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The IPKat

JUNE 5, 2023

On 11 May last, the Italian Supreme Court issued and interesting decision ( decision no. 12881 ) on the protection of the Tic Tac box as a shape trade mark, reaffirming the distinction between the “necessary form” and the “substantial form” of a product. The decision of the Supreme Court upholds the lower courts’ earlier decisions. Background Ferrero S.p.A.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2023

Last week was a big one for the potential future of the U.S. patent system. The deadline for comments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on “Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board [PTAB]” was Tuesday, June 20.

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Patently-O

JUNE 13, 2023

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced a call for nominations for membership in its esteemed Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC). These committees were established under the Patent and Trademark Office Efficiency Act in 1999 with the task of advising the Secretary of Commerce and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property on patent and trademark operations, including agency management, goals, performance, b

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 16, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the INFORM Act will take effect on June 27. Businesses with an online presence should understand what the new law means and how to prepare to avoid penalties. See Gibney’s prior update for more details on the Act requirements.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2023

The wheels of justice in the Megaupload case may have moved at a glacial pace over the last 11 years but there’s no doubt they continue to move. After entering into a plea deal with New Zealand authorities, last week former Megaupload coders Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk were sentenced at the High Court in Auckland to a total of five years in prison , to be served in New Zealand.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 7, 2023

A professor uploaded a fake answer key to a study aid website. In doing so, he caught 40 cheaters and sparked a debate. The post Did a Professor Entrap His Students? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Alliance

JUNE 1, 2023

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court finally issued its long-awaited decision in the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, reining in the transformative use test under the first fair use […] The post May 2023 Roundup of Copyright News appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2023

Recovering money from users of technology requires movement on the part of inventors of technology. For example, receiving compensation from those who use patented designs without permission often requires patent owners (e.g., inventors) to send cease and desist letters, file complaints in federal district court, and at times endure patent litigation to its completion.

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Patently-O

JUNE 5, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Washington Post has published a long article titled, “ Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead ,” by Rachel Weiner. Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest active federal judge in the country, has been embroiled in controversy as she resists her colleagues attempts to urge/force her to retire. The article ends with a noteworthy quote from Newman that rings true to her characteristic resilience and dedication: “ I want to spend my last

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 19, 2023

Notwithstanding the robust protection it provides in many other contexts, Section 230 may not protect online platforms developing generative AI systems from legal liability arising from false information produced by their products. Neither the courts nor Congress have yet provided reliable legal guidance on generative AI in the United States, but a Georgia state court defamation case and newly introduced legislation in the Senate present opportunities to change that.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2023

Generative AI models such as ChatGPT have captured the imagination of millions of people, offering a glimpse of what an AI-assisted future might look like. The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. Several rightsholders are worried that their work is being used to train AI without any form of compensation, for example. How these and other copyright questions will be dealt with is not entirely clear.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 8, 2023

Dua Lipa case permanently dismissed, ASCAP targets 13 businesses over unlicensed music and Senate committee tackles AI. The post 3 Count: ASCAP Wave appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Copyright Alliance

JUNE 20, 2023

This week we’d like to introduce you to mixed media artist Demetri Broxton. Demetri is of Creole and Filipino heritage whose work is often inspired by “his connection to the […] The post Creator Spotlight with Mixed Media Artist Demetri Broxton appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 6, 2023

The House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet today held a hearing titled “IP and Strategic Competition with China: Part II – Prioritizing U.S. Innovation Over Assisting Foreign Adversaries,” which focused on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) agreement on a waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 vaccine technologies under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) last June.

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Patently-O

JUNE 26, 2023

by Dennis Crouch Though there have been some improvements, initial office actions regularly require a fair amount clean-up and fine-tuning. This process often includes rectifying typographical errors and clarifying loose claim language. It’s also common for the examiner to misconstrue aspects of the invention. However, by the time the final rejection stage is reached, these issues are usually addressed, and the lines of difference are more clearly drawn.

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 1, 2023

Although the most straightforward cases of fair use thus involve a secondary work that comments on the original in some fashion, in Cariou v. Prince, we rejected the proposition that a secondary work must comment on the original in order to qualify as fair use. – 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Warhol v. […] The post Relitigating Cariou: Why Fine Art Will Still Be Fine After Warhol v.

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