Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Image: Shutterstock Although I post my blog content on WordPress, I usually use MS Word to draft my content initially. I am used to it, and it is easy to use. Little did I know that, according to the blogsite and forum nixCraft, Microsoft recently (September Privacy update) switched on a feature that allows them … Continue reading "Writers! Do You Know your Drafts on MS Word are being Scooped by Microsoft to Build its AI Algorithm?

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 22, 2025

On May 18th, the Chicago Sun-Times published a book list generated by AI and containing 10 fake books. Here's how it happened. The post How a Fake AI-Generated Book List Made it Into Major Papers appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 10, 2025

The following is an edited transcript of my podcast episode What are the Main Benefits of Trademark Registration? People ask me all the time, “Why should I register my trademark?” Sometimes they even say, “I’ve been using it for several years already and never had a problem. Why should I register it now?” I’m going to share the top five reasons.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2025

With close to a billion active monthly users worldwide, Telegram is one of the most used messaging services. The communication platform helps to connect people from all over the globe, with optional end-to-end encryption providing improved security compared to some other players in the market. Telegram can also be an excellent medium to broadcast messages to a wider audience.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2025

The premise of the conversation was to identify solutions for a better patent system that would improve the current state of the system without empowering bad actors, such as patent trolls. I begin the conversation offering each of the panelists an open mic to start so they can set forth their preliminary thoughts. Ultimately, Judge Newman reached her conclusion: “I was wrong.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 25, 2025

The government’s inclusion of warrantless information demand powers in Bill C-2 has attracted mounting concern, particularly the stunning decision to target everyone who provides services in Canada which creates near limitless targets for warrantless disclosure demands. Department of Justice officials have confirmed that Bill C-2 extends far beyond just telecom companies to services such as financial institutions, car rental companies, and hotels.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

The year 2024 witnessed significant developments in the legal landscape governing artificial intelligence (AI). Three states passed comprehensive AI legislation, with others passing multiple laws that regulate certain AI uses. Sector-specific regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ) and New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), continued enforcement efforts under existing laws and regulations that.

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Velocity of Content

JULY 2, 2025

Generative AI has caused a legal earthquake that has sent shockwaves through the world of copyright. Disruptive technologies like the VCR in the early days of home video and peer-to-peer file-sharing sites have caused their own legal storms, but this time is different. What makes this different is the unprecedented speed and number of lawsuits directly targeting the developers of the technology.

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McKinsey Operations

JULY 10, 2025

CEOs and their teams should be laser focused on developing next-generation leaders with the unique skills and capabilities to perform and thrive in challenging times. Here is a playbook for doing that.

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IAM Magazine

JULY 8, 2025

Long considered the realm of compliance and IT, cybersecurity should play a starring role in positioning valuable data as a legally enforceable trade secret

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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Image: Shutterstock These days just about any information in North America related to China, especially regarding intellectual property (IP), is highly negative. The narrative is along the lines of China is an adversary with deliberately lax IP laws who has stolen and continues to steal our IP, etc..

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 7, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for The Lockpicking Copyright Fight Jonathan Bailey July 7, 2025 6 minutes read U pdate July 7, 2025: Just hou

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 19, 2025

The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Considerations for a Trademark Cease and Desist Letter. A lot goes into the strategy, content, details, law, and evidence in a cease and desist letter. Before sending any such letter, here are 25 important considerations? Who has priority and what are the relevant dates? Is there really a likelihood of confusion or is there actual confusion?

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 29, 2025

For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid. This lingering remnant of the SOPA debacle drove copyright holders to focus on the introduction of blocking efforts in other countries instead, mostly successfully. Those challenging times are now more than a decade old and momentum is shifting. Today, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), which paves the way for blocking injunctions targetin

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IP Law 360

JUNE 17, 2025

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Tuesday it is developing various artificial intelligence programs to help patent and trademark examiners, including tools to help them identify prior art faster.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Rajya Sabha MP Haris Beeran wrote to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare on December 20, 2024, urging the Central Government to invoke Section 100 (1) of the Patents Act with respect to local production of the rare disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) treating drug Risdiplam. SMA is a genetic disease affecting the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Introduction What is Artificial Intelligence? Creating computer systems capable of carrying out activities that need human intellect is known as artificial intelligence or AI. AI analyses vast volumes of data to spot trends and conclude from the material it has gathered. This may be accomplished by using methods like robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2025

With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI entered the cultural zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, within a few months, the first generative AI lawsuits were filed in the U.S. (e.g., Andersen v. Stability AI, Getty v. Stability AI, Doe v. Github). Many more suits have since followed.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following commentary from Katfriends Adrian Aronsson-Storrier and Sam Berriman (both Lewis Silkin LLP), pondering on the implications of a potential UK reform of the existing text and data analysis defence in section 29A CDPA and tackling what is often an overlooked angle in copyright debates: data protection law.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 12, 2025

The invalidation rate of patents in America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings, particularly inter partes reviews (IPRs), has been extremely high since the inception of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Currently, a patent reaching a final written decision in an IPR will on average have 78% of its claims found invalid. Perhaps more surprising, when there is a final written decision, 70% of the time all challenged claims in the patent are found invalid.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 10, 2025

The government’s plan for warrantless disclosure of Internet subscriber information is rightly attracting increasing attention as sneaking lawful access provisions into a border bill raises significant privacy concerns. As I pointed out last week , Bill C-2’s new “information demand” power – which can be used by a wide range of enforcement agencies over literally any potential offence of any Act of Parliament – is certain to spark a legal challenge given the Supreme Court of Ca

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Hugh Stephens Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Image: Shutterstock The struggle between authors (writers, artists, musicians) and AI developers over the unauthorized and uncompensated use of copyrighted works to train AI applications continues, both in the courts (here is a summary of the current state of play in the US where most of the litigation is taking place) and in the political … Continue reading "Using Copyrighted Content to Train AI: Can Licensing Bridge the Gap?

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 11, 2025

Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney. Here's what the two giants are claiming and why they waited so long. The post Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney, Call it a “Bottomless Pit of Plagiarism” appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 9, 2025

The following is an edited transcript of my video Trademark Telephone Scams. When you file at the USPTO, all of the application information becomes part of the public record, including phone numbers and email addresses. The USPTO asks for your phone number during the application and at signature, however it’s not a requirement. I strongly encourage that applicants do not include their phone number in any of those forms, and here’s why.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2025

Without assurances that hosts, domain registries, registrars, DNS providers, and consumer ISPs would not be immediately held liable for internet users’ activities, investing in the growth of the early internet may have proven less attractive. Of course, not being held immediately liable is a far cry from not being held liable at all. After years of relatively plain sailing, multiple ISPs in the United States are currently embroiled in multi-multi million dollar lawsuits for not policing in

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 24, 2025

The high velocity of technological developments in Information and Communication Technology and Computer Science has brought tremendous changes in the evaluation and patenting of inventions in the tech industry. With innovations in Artificial Intelligence, blockchain technology, quantum computing, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and cyber security, the legal environment of Computer-Related Inventions (CRIs) has become more complicated.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Explaining the recent Delhi High Court decision in Gensol v. Mahindra, Tanishka Goswami analyzes the Court’s findings on the importance of house marks in infringement assessment, and the nature of the relevant market. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 20, 2025

The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. Montero Lamar Hill, better known as the recording artist Lil Nas X , also has an Instagram accountand he, too, shares semi-naked photos of himself in varying poses (as one apparently does on Instagram these days).

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In a highly watched copyright case, a federal district court has ruled that an AI companys unauthorized copying and use of original case annotations and editorial content from a leading legal research platform to train and develop a competing legal research tool runs afoul of U.S. copyright law. The case,Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc., is the first among a growing number of lawsuits brought against tech companies over the past few years to reach a substantive.

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The IPKat

JUNE 19, 2025

The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has issued its highly anticipated decision in G 1/24, relating to fundamental questions about how patent claims should be interpreted when assessing patentability.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 29, 2025

The U.S. Copyright Office has released Part 2 of its multi-part artificial intelligence (AI) report, this one focusing on copyrightability of works made by or using AI. Part 1 of the report was published in July 2024 and addressed digital replicas created by AI. Among the Copyright Offices recommendations was the need for passage of a federal law that would create a new form of property right for a persons digital replica to disincentivize the creation of realistic but false depictions of indivi

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The Illusion of More

APRIL 16, 2025

The purpose of cultivating works of authorship is to shed light on human experience, and the foundational purpose of the fair use doctrine in copyright law is to shed light on works of authorship. From its 18th century, English roots to the U.S. Supreme Courts 2023 decision in AWF v. Goldsmith, the primary rationale for […] The post Shedding Light: Briefs Filed in Kadrey v.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2025

Image: Shutterstock Canada infamously tried to take a leaf from Australias book in dealing with large internet platforms, like Google and Meta, that benefit from news media content without paying for it. In 2023, Canada introduced the Online News Act (Bill C-18), a Canadian version of Australias News Media Bargaining Code.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 25, 2025

Menu Search for About About the Author Reprint & Permissions Consulting Stop Plagiarism 1. How to Find Plagiarism 2. Contacting a Plagiarist 3. Finding the Host 4. Contacting the Host 5. When All Else Fails 6. The Long Haul Stock Letters Your Copyrights Online 1. What is a Copyright? 2. Limitations of Copyright 3. Copyright Myths Contact Facebook YouTube RSS Mastodon Bluesky Search for The MrBeast AI Thumbnail Controversy Jonathan Bailey June 25, 2025 4 minutes read Earlier this week, Jimmy

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 13, 2025

The following is an edited transcript of my video 25 Tips When Brainstorming a New Name. Here are twenty five things to keep in mind when working to create new brand name – whether launching a new business, new product, or new service, or renaming one: Begin with suffixes and prefixesnot full wordsand think about the message you want to convey to consumers.

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