Plagiarism Today
MARCH 1, 2023
Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
It’s getting pretty rough out there for employers who want to control their employees’ behavior. Think back to March 2020, when the pandemic was just beginning and we took a look at this new phenomenon of widespread remote work. We imagined managers wistfully recalling the Renaissance, when artisans could be imprisoned, or even threatened with death, to make sure they didn’t breach confidence.
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Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The plagiarism allegations between fans of Supernatural and The Jonas Brothers are mostly a joke, except for those that took it serious. The post Why the Jonas Brothers Didn’t Plagiarize Supernatural appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 1, 2023
Google is at it again. It has confirmed it is temporarily blocking some Canadian users from accessing news content through its online search function. According to the company, this is part of “product testing” in response to the Canadian government’s move to enact legislation, known as the Online News Act (Bill C-18), that would require … Continue reading "Google’s Threat to Block Canadian News Search: Will Its Intimidation Tactics Work?
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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?
Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The following is an edited transcript of my video Pickleball: A Boom in Trademark Filings If you haven’t played pickleball yet, you’ve certainly heard about it. Although it was invented a couple of decades ago, ever since the pandemic in 2020 its popularity has boomed. Some studies indicate that it’s the fastest-growing sport in the United States.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 3, 2023
When people use search engines to find pirate sites or pirated content, the results they receive today represent a massively edited subset of what is actually out there. In response to DMCA notices sent by rightsholders, billions of URLs have already been removed from Google’s search results. Every week, millions of new URLs are processed by Google and when individual domains are considered especially infringing, Google takes that as a downranking signal.
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Hugh Stephens Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, many things in Ukraine and in its neighbouring countries– Belarus and Russia to the north and east, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the west and south—have changed.
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.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
When Amazon launched the first Kindle fifteen years ago, book piracy was already a common problem. When publishers clashed with The Pirate Bay over illegally shared copies, we envisioned that things could get much worse if Kindle-ready pirate sites began to pop up. Rempant Book Piracy Fast forward to today and book piracy is easier and more widespread than ever.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 2, 2023
The Copyright Claims Board has handed down its first decision. Here's what's in it and what it says about the future of the board. The post The Copyright Claims Board Decides its First Case appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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McKinsey Operations
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Artificial intelligence, when deployed at scale, can help telcos protect core revenues and drive margin growth. But capturing this opportunity will require a wholly different approach.
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The General Court has recently confirmed with decision T-253/22 the refusal of the application for trade mark registration of the verbal sign “ Sustainability through Quality ”. Background German company Groschopp AG Divers & More filed an application for EU trade mark registration of the verbal sign “ Sustainability through Quality ” in classes 7, 9, 16 and 42.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 3, 2023
The Pirate Bay has had its fair share of technical issues over the past years, sometimes resulting in hours or even days of downtime. When the notorious torrent site goes offline, the associated SuprBay forum usually remains online. This is helpful, as the forums have a dedicated page where outsiders can check the status of the main site. More recently, the tables have been turned.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Ed Sheeran moves to limit evidence at trial, Sony asks EU court to stop cheat maker and The Last of Us creates copyright drama The post 3 Count: The Last of Copyright appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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.
The IPKat
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
In a recent decision, the Third Board of Appeal (BoA) of the EUIPO found that a design for heated socks, pictured to the lower right, is not necessarily functional (case R 878/2022-3 ). The case featured various central issues in EU design law: from what a must-fit design is, through the definition of “ normal use ”, to the methodology for establishing functionality.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 1, 2023
In common with most broadly comparable countries, internet users in Denmark enjoy movies and TV shows, music, videogames, and ebooks. The problem for rightsholders is that a subset of the population prefers not to pay for the privilege. Local anti-piracy group Rights Alliance (Rettigheds Alliancen) mitigates all types of piracy but for the past few years, has maintained a keen focus on torrent sites.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Lawsuit filed over Anne of Green Gables musical, South Park sparks titanic licensing battle and pirate couple gets caught a second time. The post 3 Count: Green Gables appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Companies rely on copyright protections to shield their software, data sets, and other works that are licensed to their customers; however, a reframing of what constitutes a “transformative use,” and the extent a license can restrict such fair uses, may whittle away all avenues of protections. On October 22, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments for Andy Warhol Foundation v.
Patently-O
MARCH 1, 2023
The following is a really wonderful Guest Post from UC San Francisco Law School Professor Jeffrey Lefstin focusing on a recent ITC decision finding a claimed drill bit abstract because of its functional limitations. by Jeffrey Lefstin Not too long after the Supreme Court decided Mayo v. Prometheus , I wrote an article suggesting, based on some of the history that followed Funk Brothers , that patents on ordinary industrial processes and compositions could become ineligible in Mayo ’s wake.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 1, 2023
In an effort to make ends meet, many people in the UK are cutting back on luxuries. Fewer nights out or perhaps none at all. Downgrading Netflix or even dumping it altogether. Subscription television is even more expensive and often demands longer-term commitments people simply can’t afford. To some, cheap but illegal streaming services might prove tempting but it appears that Sky TV and police in the UK are working hard to limit supply.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Mexican Supreme Court Justice Yasmín Esquivel Mossa is facing multiple allegations of plagiarism in a politically charged battle. The post The Plagiarism Battle in Mexico’s Supreme Court appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 1, 2023
The United States Supreme Court is soon poised to decide the fate of the enablement requirement, and the patent community is collectively holding its breath, wondering if the Court will strike a deathblow to the biopharmaceutical industry—simultaneously making all patents harder to get and even easier to challenge than they already are. The Supreme Court does not have a strong track record of objectively getting patent issues correct, at least not from a pro-innovation standpoint, although the J
McKinsey Operations
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Pharmaceutical companies are using recent advances in digital technologies to improve care strategies and provide hope for rare disease patients across thousands of different rare diseases.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 2, 2023
The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in U.S. courts, with ongoing lawsuits against several ISPs. Internet provider RCN is one of the companies targeted. In 2021, the ISP was sued by several film companies , including the makers of The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen, and Hellboy. The movie companies alleged that RCN wasn’t doing enough to stop subscribers from pirating on its network.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 2, 2023
Seedbox provider convicted, four arrests in online piracy crackdown in the UK and African newspapers face fake copyright claims. The post 3 Count: Seedbox Conviction appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
I attended the hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Maalouf v. Microsoft on Monday February 6, 2023, and the CAFC issued its opinion in the case this past Thursday. This case has curious origins. Through his company Dareltech, Ramzi Khalil Maalouf, a Lebanese immigrant and U.S. citizen, sued Xiaomi, a Chinese multinational corporation, for patent infringement in New York.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Procedural History - Jazz Pharms., Inc., v. Avadel CNS Pharms., LLC, Case No. 2023-1186 (Fed. Cir. February 24, 2023) is an appeal by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Jazz) from a District of Delaware order granting a motion for an injunction brought by Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Avadel). The injunction directed Jazz to ask the FDA to delist U.S. Patent No. 8,731,963 (the ’963 Patent) from the Orange Book.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Back in the 1980s, all computer nerds were familiar with Datel. The company produced peripherals for the 8-bit computers of the day, including RAM packs, keyboards, joystick interfaces, even sound samplers. Datel’s venture into the new world of videogame cheat devices was more controversial. The company’s Action Replay range battled against Codemasters’ Game Genie, with the latter eventually backing out of the market.
McKinsey Operations
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Innovation ecosystems can generate economic, financial, and social benefits for all, and there’s new federal funding to build them. A six-step playbook could help leaders get them right.
IP Watchdog
MARCH 2, 2023
In teaching Intellectual Property (IP) licensing for the Licensing Executives Society (USA & Canada), Inc., we often open with the first principle of contracts: the "contract" is the meeting of the minds between the parties. What did they actually agree to? The work of the written agreement is to memorialize that meeting of the minds. It is necessarily imperfect.
Michael Geist
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The Canadian government often talks about the importance of privacy, but actions speaks louder than words. Not only has privacy reform clearly not been a priority, but the government seems more than willing to use the weak privacy rules to further other policy goals. There is an obvious price for the government’s indifference to privacy safeguards and it is paid by millions of Canadians when major privacy incidents (think Tim Horton’s or Home Depot ) result in no substantive changes and no urgen
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has built quite a reputation over the years. For many Netherlands-based file-sharers, BREIN was considered a mortal online enemy. Passions don’t run anywhere near as high today, but not because BREIN took its foot off the gas. Anyone involved in the Dutch piracy scene still risks running into BREIN, and while that isn’t exactly ideal, it isn’t necessarily the end of the world either.
JD Supra Law
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. AVADEL CNS PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC - Before Lourie, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A patent directed to a system to reduce the misuse of a drug is not a listable patent in the FDA’s Orange Book because the patent does not claim a method of using the drug.
IP Tech Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Is this the time we can really see a change in the fight against Chinese trademark squatters, or are we just adding burdens to legitimate right holders? The China National Intellectual Property Association (CNIPA) has recently published a draft amendment to the Chinese Trademark Law. The document is still under examination and has been disclosed to the public for comments.
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