TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Last year, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The Federal Court eventually granted this request for the ongoing season, with some safeguards. These IP addresses can also be updated during the season if streaming services try to circumvent the blockades.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 1, 2023

On April 4, 2023, in a case of first impression, the Federal Circuit reversed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and held that a trademark applicant cannot use the priority date of a prior application when the goods and services are not listed in the prior application. By: Irwin IP LLP Apple likewise.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 24, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the first pirate site-blocking order in the country. The Federal Court eventually granted this request for the ongoing season, with some safeguards. 2023 MBL ‘Blue Jays’ Piracy Blockade Last week, Canada’s Federal Court authorized another sports streaming blockade.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Popular Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of customers including multinationals, governments, but also some of the world’s leading pirate sites. The defendant’s public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1

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IP Watchdog

MAY 9, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Science Committee convenes an executive session on Wednesday to deliberate over a pair of bills that would direct the Federal Communications Commission’s activities on establishing universal telecommunications services.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 8, 2022

With illegal streaming of live sporting events still causing headaches for leagues and broadcasters alike, rightsholders continue to demand more flexible tools to prevent infringement, especially via pirate IPTV services. Federal Court Grants Interlocutory Injunction.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 18, 2023

Mac Mok is an IP Innovation Clinic Senior Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive Program. This semester, I participated in Osgoode’s Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Technology Intensive program (IP Intensive). Students also meet biweekly to discuss current IP issues.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Elsewhere, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation debates the potential impacts of a regulatory framework for AI technologies being drafted by the European Commission, while the Heritage Foundation looks at how the characteristics of Bitcoin intersect with American values.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Popular CDN and DDoS protection service Cloudflare has come under a lot of pressure from copyright holders in recent years. The company offers its services to millions of sites, some of which provide access to copyright-infringing material. IP-Address Shielding is Fine. Court sides with Cloudflare. Caching is Not Infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 19, 2023

When it monitors citizens’ internet activities, retains huge amounts of data, and then links identities to IP addresses to prevent behavior that isn’t a “serious crime,” Hadopi violates fundamental rights. According to the digital rights group’s interpretation of EU law, that is unlawful.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

Operating a pirate IPTV service can be a dangerous endeavor, no matter where one’s located. According to a new lawsuit filed at a Texan federal court, Dallas resident William Freemon and his company Freemon Technology Industries, are a prime example. Despite this backdrop, some people are still willing to take a gamble.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Most viewers will do so through authorized services but events like this draw massive pirate audiences as well. The rightsholders asked the Federal Court for damages and an injunction to restrain the defendants’ infringing activities. The request was granted by Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley last Friday. Match Windows.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 1, 2022

The makers of films such as “I Feel Pretty,” “Once Upon a Time in Venice” and “Dallas Buyers Club” accuse these services of turning a blind eye to piracy or actively promoting it. Last month, several companies accused the Ukrainian-owned VPN service of actively promoting piracy. Filmmakers Sue VeePN.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 22, 2024

Here is a brief recap of IP developments from last week. Do read our summaries of the post on the history of IP teaching in India, some pressing questions arising out of a recent patent prosecution proceeding, and Bombay High Court’s interpretation of Section 60, Copyright Act. Why are some IP scholars more visible than others?

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 9, 2023

IP rights are territorial. While your federally registered trademark may provide you with certain exclusive rights within the US, it will not give you the ability to stop others from using the mark in foreign countries. Be careful with online services. What is the likelihood that someone outside the US may use your service?

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IPilogue

MARCH 28, 2022

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.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

of Canadians accessed pirate services,” the report notes, citing an IFPI study. Stream-Ripping and Other Problems The report states that stream-ripping services, typically sites that allow users to download MP3 files from YouTube, are now the leading mechanism for music piracy in Canada. In 2022, 22.4% as a particular problem.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2024

This week, they filed their second amended complaint at the Colorado federal court, making the changes official. Redditors and Site Blocking In addition to IP-address logs and other evidence, the movie companies also cite screenshots from Reddit users who discussed WOW! . Same Claims, Higher Stakes The nature of the claims against WOW!

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IPilogue

AUGUST 3, 2022

Imtiaz Karamat is an IP Osgoode Alumnus and Associate Lawyer at Deeth Williams Wall LLP. The CCSPA will apply to certain classes of federally regulated entities (Designated Operators) that are involved in four priority sectors: finance, energy, telecommunications, and transport. keep compliance records.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2023

Movie Studios File Statement of Claim at Federal Court The studios filed their statement of claim at the Federal Court on June 2, 2023. full list below) Domains Listed in Blocking Injunction The blocking application listed more than four dozen respondents, including internet service providers Telstra, Optus, Vocus, Vodafone and TPG.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 26, 2023

District Court for the Southern District of New York held EscapeX IP LLC’s U.S. s (better known as music streaming platform Tidal) motion to dismiss the patent infringement suit pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. On January 24, the U.S. 9,009,113 patent ineligible as being directed to an abstract idea.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Imtiaz Karamat is an IP Osgoode Alumnus and Associate Lawyer at Deeth Williams Wall LLP. The Statement reinforces the Federal Agencies’ expectations that regulated entities should adhere to applicable regulatory requirements and guidance when engaging in the crypto space.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2023

It can order online services to rapidly take down unlicensed streams of live sporting events, for example. The French Telecoms Federation (FFTélécoms) welcomes the deal, which took more than a year to negotiate. Sports Piracy Crackdown Along with this organizational change, Arcom received new anti-piracy powers.

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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. More Blockades Coming?

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 13, 2024

Whether recently graduated or transitioning into the role from a different career, information professionals (IPs) new to th­eir position face unique challenges as they work to help their organization achieve its goals. Think about it like this: if you plan to build a house, you need to have an architect and an engineer.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2024

Trying Once, Twice… The independent film companies first reached out to Reddit roughly a year ago, asking the company to disclose names, IP addresses, and emails of various users. This week, attorney Kerry Culpepper returned to the California federal court with a request for Reddit to comply with another subpoena.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. 2021 was an exciting year for the IPilogue.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

Finally today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the RIAA has obtained a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoena in a bid to unmask alleged pirates on the service Discord. They ask Discord to turn over any information they have including name, physical address IP address and contact info on the alleged pirates to them.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 16, 2023

Egin Kongoli is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s IP Intensive program. As I quickly learned, businesses that haven’t traditionally dealt with IP rights are facing a rising tide of related challenges as they seek to capitalize on new opportunities.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

If you've been too busy to stay up-to-date this week, never fear, the recap of the latest IP news and analysis is here: International Law Eleonora Rosati outlined the context and findings of a recent study that she was commissioned to produce for WIPO. to Web 3.0.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

A Texas federal jury found Grande guilty of willful contributory copyright infringement, and the ISP was ordered to pay $47 million in damages to the record labels. $47 The labels explained that ISPs play a central role in BitTorrent-based piracy, as they are the only ones who can link an IP-address to a subscriber.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yesterday, it was all about key developments in the copyright field in the Africa IP Highlights 2023 – the result of collaboration between myself and several IP practitioners and researchers across Africa: Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga. Today, it’s about the trade marks.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These services are neutral intermediaries and don’t play a “central role” in the copyright-infringing activities of pirate sites. DNS resolvers simply translate a domain name request to an IP-address. However, the case continued at the Higher Regional Court in Dresden where Quad9 managed to turn the case around.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reddit Shared IP Address Recent legal activity shows that Reddit doesn’t intend to automatically comply with all user information requests. Early last year, it did share some information (including IP address logs) related to user ‘ben125125’ Since the comment mentioned RCN, Reddit felt that was the appropriate response.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2021

IP-address was repeatedly used to share pirated films. In a motion to dismiss filed in May, the defendants argued that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Virginia federal court. He has not transacted any business in Virginia or contracted to supply services or things in Virginia.” ” IF VPN.ht

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IP Intelligence

OCTOBER 8, 2021

20, the Federal Circuit denied China-based smartphone maker OnePlus’ petition for mandamus seeking to direct a Western District of Texas court (Judge Alan Albright) to dismiss the five underlying patent infringement actions for insufficient service of process. In a recent decision , In re: OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co.,

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Patent Trademark Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Did you know that there are actually two different USPTO registers on which you can obtain a federal trademark registration ? Either register will give you a federal trademark registration, but the Supplemental Register (SR) does not include certain advantages and legal presumptions affored by the Principal.

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