TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

Over time, several hundred domains reappeared online with similar branding, but none were as relevant or persistent as those previously removed from the market. On the same day, local media published an interview with van Voorn, during which he took the unusual step of calling one pirate site by name; Zoro.to. Aniwatch.to

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2023

We’re informed that ISPs blocked 1,299 domain names under this system in 2022 but in common with the websites themselves, their names aren’t for public consumption. The four remaining ISPs are expected to implement similar blocking in the coming days and maintain it for 18 months. Uptobox.com 2. Uptostream.com 3.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 30, 2023

This meant that when the ISPs’ customers attempted to visit any of the above domains, the ISPs’ respective DNS resolvers provided non-authentic responses, thereby denying customers access to the sites. By switching to DNS servers offered by Cloudflare , Google , and Cisco ( OpenDNS ), the domains functioned as expected.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2024

As Rights Alliance reported in 2023, the cross-border nature of the offending can require evidence to be obtained from overseas, meaning that cases can drag on for quite some time. A resident of southern Sweden, the man was the alleged registrant of the service’s domain name. In this case, already four years.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2023

With no announcements from Sky or the Premier League, and the associated court orders not yet in the public domain, the scope of the Sky order remains unclear. What we can confirm today is that just days after Sky’s injunction win, the Premier League also obtained an injunction at the High Court.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Applications for 10,000+ domains to be blocked within days are now routinely approved by India’s courts. Alexandra Elbakyan: This Case Should Be Dismissed Unlike most pirate site operators, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has become an accessible public figure. The next hearing is scheduled for July 2023.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anatel Claims Massive Progress According to an Anatel announcement last Thursday (October 26), over 3,000 servers enabling millions of pirate ‘TV Boxes’ have been blocked in Brazil since the start of 2023. At least, not for any significant length of time.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 31, 2023

RARBG Shuts Down Pirate sites come and go, often without being noticed by the public at large. The popular torrent site had millions of daily users spread across several domain names. domain, where the usual torrent index was replaced by a farewell message. law enforcement seized over 200 domain names connected to the site.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2024

Attacks on the press for telling the truth , public statements that everything was running to plan, and a refusal to commit to a level of transparency that would allow those wrongfully affected to exercise their right to complain. From that low point, further deterioration ensued.

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IPilogue

MARCH 14, 2023

On February 8 2023, a nine-person jury delivered a verdict after three days of deliberation on the intriguing Hermès v Rothschild case. Rothschild engages novel issues of trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and cybersquatting (MetaBirkin.com domain name in this case) by artists in the metaverse.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2023

Noonoo TV in the Spotlight The Korean anti-piracy coalition’s first public target was revealed at the same time. After regularly obtaining circumvention domains in a sequence that began with noonoo1.tv With tens of millions of visitors per month, movie and TV show streaming giant Noonoo TV was a fairly predictable target.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 16, 2024

This rule covers lending digital copies of copyrighted works, while works in the public domain can be freely digitized. The books which were in public domain were allowed to be read and downloaded by the patron. [3] 1156 (2023). [2] Internet Archive, 542 F.Supp. 2] Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music, Inc., 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It deploys familiar techniques to shape public perception but right off the bat there’s an elephant in the room. Unsurprisingly, the number of people who rejected the too-good-to-be-true offer isn’t revealed; it’s a campaign to shape public perceptions after all, not a peer-reviewed study.

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SpicyIP

MAY 3, 2023

April 13, 2023, it was revealed that the Indian Trademark Registry has undertaken to withdraw the above notices bringing the applications back to their original status. Ideally, the application should have been allowed to proceed to publication. The Controller General Of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks & Anr. ( Via order dt.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 3, 2023

Public uproar in Bulgaria was significant but just a day later, Geshev was a free man once again. A decision handed down May 31, 2023 at the Sofia City Court requires three Bulgarian internet service providers to block two major torrent platforms.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Addressed challenges related to internet-based IP violations and domain name disputes, recognizing the complexities of IP in the digital age. Dr. Mohit Gambhir Encouraged researchers to understand the importance of creating meaningful IP, rather than focusing solely on academic publications for their CVs.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The lawsuit is still ongoing and from court documents available to the public, it hasn’t been short on drama; at times it has even trended towards the surreal. In June 2023 after pleading guilty to contempt, White was sentenced to 60 days incarceration at a correctional facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Intepat

MAY 4, 2023

After the period of protection, the inventions and information surrounding it fall into the public domain. Apart from this, the public disclosure at the time of application allows others to build upon this preexisting knowledge. Recently the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2023 was passed which incorporated certain key changes.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It is obviously not easy to summarise three full days of very intensive work (and many coffee breaks) and the reports of dozens of experts who effectively shared their knowledge with the participants, in an atmosphere open to debate and discussion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. 2023 WL 6210901. Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., A copyright is a right against the world. Int’l, Inc. Altai, Inc. ,

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We informed our readers about PatSeer’s one day IP symposium, which will be held in Bangalore on December 9th. The last date to send the entries is January 2, 2023. Delhi District Court granted a permanent injunction, restricting the Defendant from using deceptively similar mark ‘ejugantar’ and domain name ‘ejugantar.com’.

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43(B)log

APRIL 25, 2023

2023 WL 3046592, No. 21, 2023) In two opinions on the same day, the court dealt with various IP/false advertising claims brought by one litter box seller against another. 2023 WL 3049106, No. Automated Pet Care Prods., Purlife Brands, Inc., 22-cv-04261-VC (N.D. Automated Pet Care Prods., Purlife Brands, Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

JULY 3, 2023

On May 31, 2023, major entertainment companies Bell Media, Netflix, Disney, Columbia, Universal, Warner, and Paramount, plus Get Er Done Productions and Spinner Productions, launched legal action at the Federal Court in Canada. Court documents reveal that on June 12, 2023, Exclusive Technologies Inc. was served on the same day.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 3, 2024

Whether that’s by choice or design isn’t clear but a lecture from someone who earns more in a day than many fans do in a year could be even more disastrous than it sounds. Despite the Premier League acting as a business venture in which the clubs are the major shareholders, negative publicity rarely travels down the line.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2024

A key component of an ongoing anti-piracy campaign in the UK includes sensitizing the public to the risk of being convicted for fraud offenses carrying prison sentences of up to 10 years. That was disappointing. Not for getting involved in the supply or sale of pirate streams, but for simply watching them.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A few days ago, the Motion Picture Association ( MPA ) submitted an overview of some of the most problematic pirate sites and services to the U.S. ” “An analysis of 1,386 unique and currently active piracy domains found that 65 percent use Cloudflare’s services,” MPA adds. Trade Representative. ch, and The Pirate Bay.”

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Private tracker users also tend to be more invested, partly due to a community spirit mostly absent from public sites. domain, HDCity had its own encoding team, and becoming a member was no easy task. the new domain – despite not actually being the Pixelados as planned. Operating from a.li

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 24, 2023

million active users, Webtoon seems destined for a public listing, potentially as soon as 2024 according to information shared by Naver during a recent earnings call. The Calm Before the Storm On an unspecified date in August 2023, in its capacity as agent for Webtoon Entertainment Inc.,

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Launched in the fall of 2022 , just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. criminal crackdown, its self-stated goal is to ensure and facilitate the availability of books and articles to the broader public. This includes a detailed blog post the operators published on the matter, encouraging the public to use the scraped data.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Regarding the implication of the decision on IP, he interprets the judgment to extend the concept of State and its instrumentalities to include any in rem/ public action by anyone. In this tidbit , Praharsh informed our readers about the re-notification of the Trademark and Patent Agent Examination 2023. State Of UP.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2023

Unanimous Approval from Both Houses On March 22, 2023, the new bill was unanimously approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. These will “counter the unauthorized use, illicit dissemination and piracy of content protected by copyright, involving artists, writers and sportsmen.”

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Deadline for the Applications: 11:59pm IST, 23rd June, 2023. Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! Case: Holyland Marketing Pvt.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

No earlier than July 31, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than November 20, 2023 per settlement. . No earlier than June 30, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than September 30, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than July 1, 2023 per settlement. No earlier than January 31, 2023 per settlement. January 2021.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 8, 2023

Adult entertainment company MG Premium has left no stone unturned in its three-year legal standoff with the operator of piracy sites including the hugely popular ‘DaftSex’ The first public sign of the battle ahead arrived courtesy of a huge MG Premium DMCA takedown campaign that aimed to remove 832,000 DaftSex URLs from Google search.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The draft amendment rules were published on August 23 and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is accepting comments on the draft rules from the public for 30 days as per the notification, i.e., till September 22. Working of a patent was again stressed in an order as recent as 4 August 2023, in Enconcore N.V

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The IPKat

APRIL 2, 2024

Andrew Lykiardopoulos KC and Henry Edwards of 8 New Square presented the highlights of the 2023 patent cases in the form of a Christmas menu, including culinary delicacies such as Turkey with Apixaban Sauce and Caviar by Ocado. Over to Ada : "Before the starters, the chefs served hors d'oeuvres consisting of some outcomes from 2023.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

The court’s opinion (read here) was as quick as it was decisive, coming just four days after the parties argued cross-motions for summary judgment in the case. IA’s Open Library project includes millions of public domain books that users can download and read without restriction. It also includes 3.6

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