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Government Departments Pressure Social Media Sites to Censor News Links, Mean Tweets

Michael Geist

.” The resulting report is stunning as government departments have in fact pressured the social media companies to remove news links and a range of lawful content including tweets that are said to contain “offensive language” or an “offensive reply.” Sessional Paper No.

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Retweets Didn’t Reset Defamation Statute of Limitations–Crosswhite v. Reuters

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

.” Those “additional statements” in the Nunes case: “encouraging readers to peruse his ‘strange tale’ about ‘immigration policy,’ and promoting that ‘I’ve got a story for you.’” So, the good news for defamation defendants: this defendant successfully invoked the SOL despite the retweet.

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MPA & ACE Embed Staff at US Govt. IPR Center To Fight Movie & TV Show Piracy

TorrentFreak

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with the then MPAA to take down EliteTorrents , one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers on the internet. According to the MPA, this embedding will assist the government and law enforcement authorities in their investigations into large-scale copyright infringement operations.

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MPA & RIAA Deployed 60+ Lobbyists in 2022, Piracy Top of The Agenda

TorrentFreak

Some recently expressed concerns that AI-generated works collide with copyright law. Other issues included the Notorious Markets report, intellectual property ‘theft’ in general, enforcement of IP law, issues related to the DMCA, and proposals related to technical measures, aka content filtering.

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Lead YouTube Content-ID Scammer Requests Reduced Prison Sentence

TorrentFreak

” Music Career Fernandez was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the United States in 2002. — A copy of the sentencing memorandum submitted by the attorney of Webster Batista Fernandez is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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USPTO Suspends Trademark Terminal Filings

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In addition, the USPTO alleges Trademark Terminal “ engaged in the unauthorized practice of law ,” provided “ fraudulent information ,”, and overcharged victims. ” Unfortunately, this is bad news for consumers who believed Trademark Terminal’s services are legitimate. Shadowy Operation From Pakistan.

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Piracy Domains Seized By US Because Verisign & GoDaddy Are American

TorrentFreak

Last week, Brazilian law enforcement agencies announced a new wave of Operation 404. The anti-piracy initiative began in 2019 and with the assistance of law enforcement agencies in the United States and United Kingdom, Brazilian authorities claim to have put hundreds of websites and apps out of action via blocking and domain seizures.

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