43(B)log

MAY 8, 2023

The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here ([link] and upload an anonymized version of your draft.

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43(B)log

MARCH 22, 2023

The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here ( [link] ) and upload an anonymized version of your draft.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Like previous years, we kept the topic selection open to participants – asking them to choose any topic they wanted so long as it related to IP. We received several excellent submissions across a various range of topic areas. Thanks again to the anonymous supporter for increasing the prize amounts for this year.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to former Snopes managing editor Brooke Binkowski, he created the new identity as a means to shield himself when he covered politically heated topics. According to Binkowski and another anonymous former employee, this was the model Mikkelson wanted the site to operate under.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 18, 2022

The community-driven platform has “subreddits” dedicated to pretty much every topic you can think of. They delete spam, remove off-topic content, and make sure that ‘unauthorized’ content is swiftly removed. . These generate a constant stream of discussions and links, some more useful than others.

Copyright 141

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena which required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Conducted by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the inquiry invited submissions from stakeholders on numerous topics, including the identification of barriers to maintaining and increasing overseas investment. That, or the information they can provide has clearly been stolen, falsified, is incomplete or otherwise misleading.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 19, 2023

The topic is always controversial, and most of the interesting questions have answers that have the potential to make it even more so. Straight answers in response to straight questions is far from the default position in Hollywood where piracy is concerned.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2022

VPNs have recently become a sensitive topic in United States mainstream media. While many popular VPN providers aggressively market their ‘no-log’ policies which allow users to anonymously surf the web, it’s nearly impossible to verify their claims. They are vital for whistleblowers and people who rebel against Government oppression.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Given the very specific nature of some of the questions in this year’s report, it’s evident that copyright holders are looking to support their position on a number of hot button topics, from proper compensation for rightsholders across streaming services to pressure on search engines to take action against infringing content.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

Perhaps fittingly given the topic, the EC’s report has already leaked online and according to reports, rightsholders are underwhelmed by the document, to put it mildly. The Live Content Coalition told Euractiv that’s just not good enough.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The court says: if the fair use inquiry demonstrates that an anonymous speaker is not an infringer of copyrighted works, a DMCA subpoena must be quashed, since the only authorized purpose for a subpoena under the DMCA is to discover the identity of an alleged infringer.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The survey has been running for almost a week and garnered several comments and emails on the topic. Switzerland : It was reported that there was no Trust Service Provider offering a SmartCard being interoperable with the CMS in Switzerland (@Anonymous at 25 Nov at 8:32). No identification of the provider yet.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

It’s also unclear if a service could thread content by topic, or if topical organization also would be an “algorithm.” its implications for anonymous speech). ” I’ll assume both of these content restrictions would be OK, but the bill doesn’t actually say that]. See this article.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

For years the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has used the cheap DMCA subpoena process to identify anonymous people said to have infringed their copyrights, usually in music or videos. Something didn’t sit right. Nothing sat right.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2024

Through these platforms, individuals can access content that was previously inaccessible and engage in discussions on topics that were once considered sensitive or controversial. While content moderation and anonymity of social media platforms give rise to defamation, such platforms are also a rapid response channel to defamatory attacks.

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IPilogue

JULY 29, 2021

Although some virtual open houses are webinars where students remain anonymous, B&P encouraged students to keep their cameras on if they felt comfortable. In my breakout room, he explained that as a student he had to pay to learn about interesting topics, but now he does so constantly in his role at B&P.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Most pirate operations shroud themselves in secrecy and do all they can to remain anonymous. “In addition, ICANN has failed to adopt meaningful solutions to improve the accuracy of registrant information, despite discussions on this topic for the last several years,” the RIAA adds. GDPR Byspass?

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This movement began to grow when the podcast Britney’s Gram reported on an anonymous voicemail alleging serious concerns with the nature of the conservatorship. In fact, multiple documentaries on the topic have been produced and released in the last two years, including Framing Britney Spears and, more recently, Netflix’s Britney vs Spears.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As part of the course requirements, students were asked to write a blog on a topic of their choice. This can become difficult to track with memes, as they often appear out of nowhere, on anonymously-run meme pages, such as @memezar and @insta.single. It’s no secret that memes have taken the internet by storm.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Banksy Case: registration of a trademark in bad faith and the price of anonymity. La entrada Influencers, bullfighting, deepfakes, AI, biopics… the Garrigues IP Blog celebrates its first birthday, covering all the hot topics. There will be a sequel! Catch up with us every Tuesday on our IP Blog. Thanks for following us!

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On the specific topic of ransomware, Congress is eyeing a similar bipartisan piece of legislation, the Sanction and Stop Ransomware Act. ” The United States Innovation and Competition Act would invest roughly $200 billion into U.S. supply chains to foreign influence and protection of U.S.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to Traverse, where we discuss the hottest topics in Internet law. Suppose you have to identify anonymous people on the internet. If you face an Internet law issue, cyber law complaint, website, or e-commerce issue, we have an Internet lawyer ready to help. The Internet is a Highly Complex Place.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 22, 2023

For works that fall into the category of “anonymous or pseudonymous works or works made for hire,” the general terms were extended from 75 years from date of publication to 95 years. For more details on this complicated topic, see Circular 30.) Some companies founded before 1900 are still in operation.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena that required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The question is raised, then, (and unfortunately could not be answered by the AG here, as off-topic) whether VPN providers could be asked through blocking orders not to provide access to copyright infringing – such as geoblocked – content.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

It will largely depend on the one hand, on governments’ willingness to take the initiative to include pertinent provisions in their IPR laws, such as amending the classes of trademarks and the NICE Agreement, 1957 by WIPO to include specific provisions related to the topic, as opposed to relying solely on a single country’s guidelines.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, imagine a government-designated censor at a newspaper, deciding if the newspaper can add a new column or feature, add a new topical section, or change the size and layout of the paper. This gives the auditor power to decide what features the platforms publish and what they don’t. This bill does the same.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Furthermore, age authentication usually also requires identity authentication, and that will end anonymous/unattributed online activity. Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy. Instead, the bill repeatedly implicates general consumer protection concerns and, most troublingly, content moderation topics.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The court continues: “what is ‘in the best interest of children’ is not an objective standard but rather a contentious topic of political debate.” That makes this topic is the #1 battle privacy advocates should be fighting. AND YET…I mostly continue to mostly hear deafening silence from privacy advocates on this topic.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

exclusively with a single, albeit anonymous, source.’” Just as Shakespeare noted in Winter’s Tale (Act 5, Scene 2, lines 14-15 ), there is such a full body of “language in their very gestures” that doing that topic justice goes beyond the space available in this piece). 199 U.S.P.Q. 560, 563 (Tr.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As in previous years, we have divided these developments into five categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Topicality/Impact) b) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) c) Top 10 IP Legislative and Policy Related Developments d) Other IP Developments; and e) Other Notable Developments. A special thanks to Mr. G.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

11) Anonymous posts. This lawsuit involves the first rule, which restricts off-topic comments. ” As evidence, the plaintiffs pointed to other off-topic comments that hadn’t been removed. The off-topic rule is, by definition, a content-based restriction on speech. Implications.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It remains to be seen how active the PTAB will be with respect to designating precedential decisions in 2022, whether through granting of additional POP reviews or through the more traditional method of anonymous nomination of previously issued decisions. [1] 1] Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Paper 10. [3] Paper 13. [4]

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

In the FTC’s statute, 6(b) is simply the provision that gives the agency the authority to get information from outside entities and compile that information into anonymized reports for the public. But that is a broader topic for another day and was not discussed at the meeting.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

So for the (mostly) consumer protection part of the show, it was an interesting topic but not a particularly controversial one. ” Bottom line: Criminal referrals will remain an important FTC priority, and the public statement on the topic isn’t any real change from what the agency has been doing for many years now.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Students: this post surfaces numerous potential paper topics. Despite this post’s length, the only thing you will know with confidence after reading this post is that FOSTA is not a good solution to any problem. Cases are already going up on appeal, so there will be a lot more law coming on these issues soon. * * *. Ruling #1: Doe v.

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