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What the CRTC’s New Registration Requirements Mean for Regulating Everything from Online News Services to Podcast Providers

Michael Geist

The decision, which attracted considerable commentary over the weekend, involves mandatory registration rules for audio and visual services that include far more than the large streaming services. As is often the case, it is not as bad as critics would suggest, but not nearly as benign as the CRTC would have you believe.

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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s From User-Generated Content Services

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Registration is available here. The event is free of charge, and registration is available here. Participation is possible both on-site and online and registration is taken here. Other WIPO, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Ukrainian IPO have opened registration for the Ukraine Summer School on Intellectual Property.

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Protecting Trademarks on YouTube: Balancing Rights and Remedies in the Digital Age

Intepat

The benefits of trademark registration allow the ‘Trademark holder’ to enjoy the following benefits – Protection of the channel name, preventing competitors from stealing or using a similar version of the YouTube channel name. A fine of rupees fifty thousand which can be increased to the extent of two lakhs. Dabur India Limited (“Dabur”) v.

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Copyright Hygiene for Digital Content Creators Part VI: YouTube

Velocity of Content

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). But what it isn’t is a substitute for a copyright registration. (It

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Publicity Rights: An analysis of Amitabh Bachchan V. Rajat Nagi & Ors.

Intepat

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. The Trade Marks Act, 1999 governs trademark law in India and provides for the registration, protection, and enforcement of trademarks. Under this Act, Sec.

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IPSC Breakout Session #1

43(B)log

Dignitary interests: false light, IIED, privacy typically expire w/person. Dustin Marlan, Trademark Disclosure TM registration requires disclosures just as patent does: undertheorized. The TM bargain: registration can be made in a form prescribed by the Director, so there’s some statutory flexibility if we think policy justifies it.