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MANGA Plus Invites Users to Confess Piracy & Name Most-Used Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

For many years Japanese manga companies had a tendency to ignore the majority of overseas markets, despite the potential for lucrative trade. Manga pirates often take credit for what amounted to a highly successful unpaid marketing project but having seen the potential, manga publishers understandably want this market for themselves.

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

Ruchi Sharma highlights a few findings of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister’s report “Why India Needs To Urgently Invest In Its Patent Ecosystem?” and emphasizes on the need to facilitate data access by IPO for the betterment of the national innovation system, something which the above report is silent on.

IP 100
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27th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: From the DMCA to the DSA: Keynote and copyright interactions

43(B)log

Three characteristics of DSA that are building blocks: (1) single market nature, (2) proportionality, (3) process effect. Single market effect: harmonization of national rules, like US federal preemption. Under consent decrees, they have to report to authors first. Users also need redress/transparency about those decisions.