TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Sharing copyrighted content online is certainly nothing new but over the years the sharing mechanisms have expanded to incorporate new methods of distribution. According to DB Corp, part of the problem can be found on WhatsApp where dedicated groups are sharing their newspapers and magazines without permission.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

On April 22, artist JL Cook filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta , alleging that the company is failing to take adequate steps to prevent counterfeit ads from appearing on its site. This case was just filed, so there’s no real way to know where it will go from here. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The word and the song that it titles has remained a part of our lexicon for nearly sixty years and, despite being a famous tongue-twister (so much so, it was featured in a recent Mental Floss episode on the topic ), has been on the tongues of generations. However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In early May, CCC hosted “ Workflow of the Future: Sustainable Business Models ,” the latest event in a series designed to help facilitate important conversations on critical topics related to standards. You can read a summary of the event here. To many observers, this author included, the industry is almost pathologically averse to change.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2022

They aren’t meant to be complete overviews, just catch up guides for those interested in that specific topic. This means that it can be freely copied, printed, shared, distributed without any permission from the U.S. If your interest in copyright is more broad, you need to be aware of the copyright circulars published by the U.S.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image from here A topic close to this blog’s heart – informal innovation, recently made headlines. Efforts were made to commercialise this innovation – re-designing to lower costs, a patent was filed, licensing and royalty sharing agreements were entered into, but mostly in vain, at least in India.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SpicyIP Fellowship : SpicyIP Fellows are typically sharp, passionate bloggers, interested in researching and writing on developments in intellectual property rights and the innovation policy scenario in India, with a flair to pick up engaging topics. The Details regarding eligibility, applications and evaluation are all here.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 8, 2023

Motion to Dismiss Denied Grande challenged the claims and filed a motion to dismiss the case. This brings us to the next topic on the court’s agenda; a request from the filmmakers to release the identities of 125 Grande subscribers who were repeatedly flagged for sharing pirated films.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2023

There are several other file-sharing and piracy-related topics where other polls appear. And indeed, a VPN does up as the answer in a massive font. Torrent Clients, Fmovies, RARBG, and The Dark Web User polls aren’t exclusive to The Pirate Bay.

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Patently-O

JULY 28, 2021

For example, I’ve seen some firms send notices to clients that in essence say “we’re not going to foreign file unless you tell us” while others insist on an affirmative “I don’t want foreign filings” written message from the client, and hound the client until they get it.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This liability for online services is a hot topic on the political agenda and it’s at the center of several lawsuits in U.S. Over the past months, a group of independent movie companies filed a series of lawsuits against VPN providers and their hosting companies. courts as well. Lawsuits Target VPN Piracy. For example, YTS.mx

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In these scenarios, the Investors provide cash to the Corporation in exchange for shares of the Corporation’s preferred stock. The COI is filed with the Delaware Secretary of State (or whatever state the entity is organized (See Footnote 1)) and becomes effective when it is filed with the Secretary of State. [3]

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2023

The copyright angle is the topic of many debates and has already made its way to court in a few cases. The file is still backed up by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and alternative download links are also being shared. At the same time, AI is causing grave concerns within the copyright industries.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When the file-sharing revolution hit the mainstream well over a decade ago, many site operators and users positioned ‘sharing’ as an ideology. The privacy angle is a topic that has become very relevant this week. This altruistic belief has started to fade in recent years. Leave No Trace.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 10, 2023

My comments touched on numerous topics, but focused in large part on the impact that USPTO trademark filing fee increases will have on small businesses, as well as the USPTO’s IT expenditures. We understand that the USPTO needs to ensure proper funding and that filing levels have dropped from recent all-time highs.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Basheer shared the news of the announcement of an Indian Innovation Act, as the then Minister of Science and Technology called it. The topic was particularly pondered in a post called “ Is “Science” Essential for Creating Patent Lawyers ?” Whither Indian Innovation (NIA) Act: Around 15 years ago, in the same month, Prof.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena, requesting Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. A few weeks after this setback, the rightsholders filed another request , seeking similar information for use in their lawsuit against ISP Grande.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

million people (according to SimilarWeb) in ’23, was provisionally found to have earned about 340 million won [$35 million] in advertising revenue,” the statement notes, adding that the platform illegally shared almost 27,000 titles causing “significant damage” to the publishing industry.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

In 2019, several major music companies filed a lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. RCN focuses heavily on the piracy tracking evidence from Rightscorp but has also brought up another topic; the decision by major record labels to remove DRM from the iTunes music store in 2009. More Discovery Disputes.

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The IPKat

APRIL 20, 2022

A Kat in desperate need of a coffee GuestKat Gabriele Girardello shared with us the trends and topics covered at the “Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation” conference in Amsterdam, which he attended on 14-16 March 2022. Lastly, our PermaKat Eleonora Rosati shared new information regarding the next (in-person!)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 11, 2022

YouTube is an incredible site with an unbelievable amount of content covering every conceivable topic. The first notice dated December 6 was filed by the developer of the Android app ‘ AnyTracker ‘ The app detects changes on websites and at least officially, is only available on Google Play.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

The Course Hero website is an education-focused website for document sharing. To obtain a subpoena, Berkovitz would have to register his copyrights and file a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which he did. This lawsuit was dismissed one month after it was filed. It has been reported that Prof.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 13, 2022

The VPN lawsuits are filed by a group of independent movies companies that previously went after piracy sites and apps. “TorGuard knows and encourages its end users to use its VPN service to access The Pirate Bay and pirate content” the complaint read, pointing to a topic in the Torguard forums.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 2, 2023

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in U.S. A few weeks ago the movie companies obtained a subpoena asking Reddit to share the personal details of these users, including IP-address logs. Reddit Opposes Motion to Compel Reddit’s rejection prompted the filmmakers to file a motion to compel.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

He wrote detailed posts on this topic later here and here. Basheer also shared Some Personal Reflections in the Aftermath of the Mashelkar Massacre and suggested a path Towards Transparency and a Plurality of Perspectives (See also here ). The results revealed that the Ministry of Home Affairs had no source or backing of the data.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2022

Since the complaint was filed both parties have gone back and forth in court with various arguments and accusations. In addition, the music companies are also allowed to argue that throttling and port blocking can be used to hinder illegal file-sharing traffic, even if that raises net neutrality issues.

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Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, on World IP Day, this post shares the often-overlooked personal journeys of invention that patent professionals play a crucial role in, by encouraging idea submission, collaborating with engineers and innovators, managing outside counsel, and in patent drafting, prosecuting claims, patent examining, and studying and teaching patenting.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

3D trade marks are always a topic of interest, with some proprietors despairing as to whether trade mark law will provide them with any practical protection. Volkswagen filed an appeal on 1st April 2021. Pinball did not file any observations in reply. The recent decision of the EUIPO’s Board of Appeal may provide some comfort.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

None of these avenues are inherently controversial but for some companies another option is attractive; track down people who allegedly downloaded and shared movies online and warn them that they could soon be facing a lawsuit. That now appears to be the case. Voltage Holdings Obtains High Court Order.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As with my earlier post on the overall role of peer review in the scholarly and scientific publishing process, for Peer Review Week 2022 we are reposting this series and including some updated information on the topics we covered: An article in Nature Medicine suggests access to preprints might be good for patient outcomes.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 9, 2021

While that investigation did bear more plagiarized fruit, it also caught up some innocent bystanders as King’s editors were targeted, despite being unaware of the plagiarism, as did various authors that shared the same editors and voice actors that work on King’s audiobooks.

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Corsearch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In this guide, we will: Share the common scams on X/ Twitter you need to be aware of. Provide steps on how to manually remove counterfeits and infringing content from the platform. Showcase how Corsearch can help you automate this process and tackle counterfeits at scale. Firstly, you can flag it directly from the account’s profile.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

17 of the Copyright DSM Directive on uses of copyright-protected content by certain internet platforms (the so-called “online content-sharing services providers”, OCSSPs). 17 is the most controversial provision in the Copyright DSM Directive [read The IPKat’s posts on the topic ]. This includes Art. The decision to transpose Art.

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

Background In early 2021, Global Trademark Services Ltd (“GTS”) filed applications for the following marks in relation to ‘clothing, footwear, headgear’ in class 25: (UK Application No. GTS was invited to file letters of consent signed by Henry and Ronaldinho, but failed to do so. 3587268 and No. 3587268 and No.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2022

negotiated disclosures of information stored in the Commission’s file to VLOPs / VLOSEs. negotiated disclosures of information stored in the Commission’s file to VLOPs / VLOSEs.

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The IPKat

MARCH 6, 2022

In addition, potential and tangible intersections between intellectual property and these trending topics were recently discussed by The Trademark Lawyer Magazine. with specific examples of how well-known companies are filing trade mark applications related to the use of tokens in virtual environments. Meanwhile, in Japan, Apple Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

The final result, i.e. the model, consists of two files – a simple run file that establishes the functioning of the model (the model architecture) and a much larger file of parameters or weights (expressed as floating point numbers ). The run file is a classic piece of software and does not pose particular difficulties.

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