Plagiarism Today
MARCH 31, 2022
Earlier this month, the Russian government began taking steps to broadly legalize the piracy of all content from countries that were sanctioning it. This movie initially began with patents and business software, but has been reportedly expanded to include all types of copyright-protected content. ( Note: There are conflicting reports on whether this has already been signed into law or is just being considered.
Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
Recently the US Copyright Office (USCO) reaffirmed its longstanding position that human authorship is a pre-condition for recognition of copyright, despite being pushed hard by a particular protagonist within the tech community to accept artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of a machine (NB his machine) or software as a creator with rights.
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Erik K Pelton
MARCH 27, 2022
Tonight in the men’s Elite Eight ® of the NCAA ® March Madness ® basketball tournament, many will be rooting for the underdog, the St. Peter’s Peacocks, against one of the powerhouses of basketball, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. This isn’t just David vs Goliath on the court, but in trademark protection. The University of North Carolina system owns more than 100 trademark registrations and applications, and UNC at Chapel Hill owns more than 20 registrations.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 31, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than a month. It isn’t going to plan. In parallel with the terrible images being shared around the world, Russia is using its infamous site-blocking systems to deny access to websites that dare to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative of Putin’s ‘Special Operation’ Telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor is working harder than ever to maintain its blockades against everything from Google News, Twitter, Facebook, and
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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?
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 28, 2022
Shelby Scoffield , a high school English teacher from Mountain House, California, is like many others in that she struggles to enforce academic integrity standards in her classroom. According to her, these problems became worse during the pandemic due to the rise of distance learning. However, even after taking time away to teach basics of academic integrity, she still faced an “onslaught” of papers with serious plagiarism issues.
Michael Geist
MARCH 30, 2022
Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act that serves as the government’s follow-up to Bill C-10, was the subject of debate in the House of Commons yesterday as the legislation slowly makes it way through the legislative process. There are still committee hearings to come, but it is readily apparent that many of the concerns that hamstrung Bill C-10 have returned: virtually limitless jurisdictional , overbroad scope , and harmful discoverability provisions.
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TorrentFreak
MARCH 26, 2022
The Oscars are the most prestigious film awards and millions of movie fans are looking forward to seeing who the new winners will be. For filmmakers, it’s an incredible honor to be named among the world’s greatest. Even being nominated is an accolade many people can only dream of. This year, the Spanish drama film “Parallel Mothers” (Madres Paralelas) is among the lucky few.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 30, 2022
Asghar Farhadi is a critically acclaimed Iranian director who, among his various awards, can boast about two Academy Award-winning films under his name. He is, without a doubt, one of the biggest names in filmmaking in both Iran and the international filmmaking scene broadly. However, as per The Hollywood Reporter, he now finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes plagiarism battle.
Patently-O
MARCH 27, 2022
New pending petition for certiorari in Interactive Wearables, LLC v. Polar Electro Oy , 21-1281 (Supreme Court 2022) on patent eligibility grounds. Question presented: The patents-in-suit are directed to an electronics hardware device comprising a content player/remote-control combination having numerous concretely-recited components that undisputedly qualifies as a “machine” or “manufacture” under the statutory language of 35 U.S.C. § 101.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 26, 2022
Two recent decisions dealing with high-end watches illustrate the fine line between permissible and infringing modifications when the final product bears a trademark of the original maker. As the trend of “upcycling” or “creative reuse” continues to grow, entrepreneurs should be aware of the potential pitfalls in modifying the products of others. Generally, the first sale or “exhaustion” doctrine protects a reseller of authentic goods from infringement liability—but only when the goods have not
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TorrentFreak
MARCH 30, 2022
A few years ago piracy-related lawsuits were pretty straightforward. Copyright holders would either sue alleged file-sharers or the operators of pirate sites. More recently, we have seen a new breed of lawsuits filed on behalf of the makers of movies such as “Angel Has Fallen”, “Dallas Buyer’s Club”, “Hellboy” and “Rambo V: Last Blood” These lawsuits target VPN providers, which are generally seen as third-party intermediaries.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 30, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Epic Games Hit with Another Lawsuit Over Fortnite Dance Moves. First off today, Austen Goslin at Polygon reports that choreographer Kyle Hanagami has filed a lawsuit against Epic Games alleging that the video game company copied his choreography for an emote in the game Fortnite.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 30, 2022
This is a case initially filed by Richard Liebowitz that’s still clogging the courts, which explains why it is so transparently unmeritorious. I previously described the case: The photo at issue depicted a man in a bar named Dan Rochkind. The NY Post licensed the photo for its story, “ Why I won’t date hot women anymore.” As you can infer from the title, the vapid story bristled with sexism and possible misogyny.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 27, 2022
On March 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Precedential Opinion Panel’s (POP’s) decision allowing patent owner DynaEnergetics Europe GmH to amend its claims, and also affirmed the PTAB’s decision that the original claims of the patent were unpatentable. Hunting Titan, Inc. petitioned for inter partes review of claims 1–15 of the U.S.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 27, 2022
Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report. This colossal database contains information on more than five billion DMCA takedown requests, including who sent them, when, and which platforms were targeted.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 31, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: TekSavvy’s Second Appeal on Landmark Website-Blocking Order Dismissed. First off today, Nida Zzafar at MobileSyrup reports that the Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal by local internet service provider TekSavvy that attempted to overturn a site blocking order it has been instructed to follow.
IPilogue
MARCH 29, 2022
Sally Yoon is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference , organized by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), included a session on “Clean Technol
IP Watchdog
MARCH 31, 2022
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has agreed to perform a study requested earlier this month by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) to explore “whether Congress should create a unified, stand-alone, and independent Intellectual Property Office.” NAPA President and CEO Teresa Gerton said its full-time research staff and Academy Fellows are well-positioned to do the work requested and that NAPA would begin discussions with the U.S.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 1, 2022
The Oscars are the most anticipated movie awards show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world. This year’s awards ceremony received plenty of attention as well, with most of the media focusing on the Will Smith incident. Luckily, the winners didn’t get unnoticed by the public at large. There are two films that clearly stand out.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 29, 2022
Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Court Denies Cox’s Challenge of $1 Billion Music Piracy Verdict. First off today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that a Virginia federal court has rejected Cox Communications’ bid to overturn a $1 billion judgment against them in their long-running dispute with the record labels.
IPilogue
MARCH 28, 2022
Emily Chow is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. I attended the 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference’s second session on diversity in intellectual property law.
SpicyIP
MARCH 28, 2022
We’re pleased to inform you that Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA), People’s Vaccine Alliance (India) and Campaign for Access to Medicines, Diagnostics and Devices (CAMD-India) would like to invite you to a webinar on “ Is the leaked TRIPS Waiver text a loss for India? ” to discuss the critical issues in the leaked text on 30th March, 2022. For further details, please see the announcement below: Webinar on ‘ Is the leaked TRIPS Waiver text a loss for India?
TorrentFreak
MARCH 31, 2022
Pirate site blocking is a common practice in dozens of countries around the world. In most cases, ISPs are ordered to take action after a relatively short court proceeding. In the Netherlands, it took more than a decade for the first order to be approved. It took detours through the Supreme Court and the EU Court of Justice before the final order was issued in 2020, targeting The Pirate Bay.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 31, 2022
Some new assertion entities popped up this week, including a high-stakes campaign filed by LS Cloud Storage Technologies LLC (a Waco vintage, if from 2016) on a couple of data-sharing patents (one very old, one somewhat new, U.S. 6,549,988 and U.S. 10,154,092). There was also a new ride-sharing NPE campaign from Fare Technologies LLC (another older LLC with apparent ties to monetizers) against Uber and Lyft on just one patent, RE46727.
McKinsey Operations
MARCH 30, 2022
Worries about geopolitical conflicts, among other risks to growth, now exceed executives’ concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall economic optimism continues to decline.
SpicyIP
MARCH 27, 2022
Image from here. The seemingly never-ending saga of copyright licensing societies in India has taken a fresh turn after the Delhi High Court (through Justice Yogesh Khanna) in its judgement of March 9, 2022, accepted Phonographic Performance Limited’s (PPL) Writ Petitions directing the Government of India to reconsider PPL’s application for registration as a copyright society, and accordingly, to set aside the registration of Recorded Music Performance Limited (RMPL) as a copyright society for s
IPilogue
MARCH 31, 2022
Tianchu Gao is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Session III from the 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference focused on IP in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 29, 2022
In 2018, Canada’s Federal Court approved the country’s first pirate site-blocking order. Following a complaint from major media companies Rogers, Bell and TVA, the Court ordered several major ISPs to block access to the domains and IP-addresses of pirate IPTV service GoldTV. Site Blocking Appeals. There was little opposition from Internet providers, except for TekSavvy, which quickly announced an appeal.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 29, 2022
This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” The plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game. She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. She also claims that she was harassed by in-game moderators who are “volunteers” but compensated with extra in-game privileges and currency.
Kashishipr
MARCH 30, 2022
It is imperative to have Registered Trademarks in place to have one’s business stand out in the market and create a significant brand value. However, developing a unique and eye-catching mark is not an easy task. In India, trademarks are registered, protected, and enforced under the Trademarks Act of 1999 (referred to as the ‘Act’ further in this article).
IPilogue
MARCH 30, 2022
Jasmine Yu is an IPilogue Writer and a 1L JD Candidate at the University of Toronto. This article is part of a series covering the 5th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The sixth session of the 5 th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, hosted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (“CIPO”) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (“CIGI”), centered around I
TorrentFreak
MARCH 29, 2022
When Vladimir Putin’s tanks and an estimated 200,000 troops began to roll across the border on February 24, 2022, his military expected swift subjugation of Ukraine. Four weeks later amid massive loss of human life and widespread destruction, things are not going to plan for Russia, militarily or economically. An unprecedented sanctions package aimed at deterring Putin has plunged Russia’s economy into crisis and in common with Russia’s bombs hitting innocent civilians in Ukrai
Likelihood of Confusion
MARCH 31, 2022
I have tried not to overload the blog with media coverage about our Supreme Court case involving THE SLANTS, but this is pretty ginchy: Originally posted 2017-02-21 13:10:28. Republished by. The post “Rock ‘n Roll, Redskins & Free Speech” appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
SpicyIP
MARCH 28, 2022
We’re pleased to bring to you this guest post by our former fellow Aparajita Lath. Aparajita is a lawyer based in Bangalore. She works in a law firm that advises technology companies. The views expressed in this post are personal. Her previous posts on the blog can be viewed here, here , here and here. News and Views: Copyright Hues and Authors’ Dues.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 29, 2022
What does the invasion of Ukraine have to do with COVID-19? Would you believe intellectual property is the link? Stay with me on this; it’s an interesting story. Recently, it was confirmed that the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine – apparently with some help from volunteer hackers – managed to breach the network of Russia’s most guarded nuclear power facility and make off with extremely valuable trade secrets.
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