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ICANN Simplifies Requests For Hidden Domain Name Registration Data

TorrentFreak

From a user’s perspective, domain names are more easily remembered than IP addresses and remain the same despite IP address changes behind the scenes. Domain names also play an important role in conveying branding and as a result can be worth considerable sums of money. “The system is defined largely by what it isn’t.

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Safeguarding Personal Names

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

For renowned figures, the importance of their name extends to public perception, brand identity, and professional success. Therefore, the need to safeguard one’s name becomes apparent, and Intellectual Property Rights offer a means to address this concern.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

There is a significant push at this week’s meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights to approve a Diplomatic Conference on a Broadcasting Organizations Treaty that is not strictly limited to combating unlawful interception of traditional broadcast signals.

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IPSC Closing Plenary Session

43(B)log

Changes to IP rules on their own in our world may have little effect on whether we go towards the good vision or the bad—cloud computing, network effects that cause convergence on a small number of intermediaries, and important tech that is protected by secrecy/real and personal property law/employment agreements. Individual interest v.

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The EU imperative to a free public domain: The case of Italian cultural heritage

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Public Domain Mark 1.0 In this context of international and EU legal obligations to protect cultural rights, the EU has set a legal imperative to protect the public domain.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

European Commission - Trade and Technology Council Working Group 9 - Webinar: Intellectual property and SMEs in the digital economy - 7 July 2022 - Online The European Commission will hold the third webinar of the Trade and Technology Council Working Group 9 on promoting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access to and use of digital tools.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). Chapter 20, by Maximilian Becker, addresses the overlap between trade secrets and privacy.