The IPKat

APRIL 10, 2024

In Nigeria, the recent judgment delivered by the Federal High Court in the case of Incorporated Trustees of Laws and Rights Awareness Initiative v Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC ) sheds light on this complex relationship between data privacy and the interests of the state.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’re pleased to announce that NLU Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies (JIPS) is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue (Volume VIII, Issue I). NLU Jodhpur has constantly been ranked as one of the top law schools in India. The last date for submissions is January 7, 2024.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Both groups are “private” Facebook groups: Both Ahwatukee411 and PARC have “always been” private, closed Facebook groups—meaning only group members can access and see posts made within the Groups. The plaintiff sued HDR for ECPA and common law privacy violations. The court rejects both claims.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

A wide myriad of laws impact, or at least can impact, scraping activities online. . Namely, it says that scraping content from a publicly accessible website is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if such activity is barred by the site’s terms of service. The Divisive History of Web Scraping.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 29, 2022

The following is an edited transcript of my video What Information Becomes Public in a Trademark Application? An important topic that I get asked about frequently is, “What information from my trademark filing will be public?” The address that’s associated with the owner will be in the public record.

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IPilogue

JUNE 20, 2022

Aaron Dishy is an IPilogue Writer and a 3L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. These inequities can include limited access to health care services and a corresponding lack of access to relevant health information. Identification with LGBTQ2IA+ communities is a noted social determinant for broad health inequities.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 22, 2023

Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to millions of books, without charging a penny. law enforcement seized over 200 domain names connected to the site. Despite being in the crosshairs of law enforcement, Z-Library has no intention of throwing in the towel. When the U.S.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2023

We’re pleased to inform you that a free online course on intellectual property starting on July 31, 2023 is being offered for students on the e-learning platform SWAYAM by Dr. Yogesh Pai, Associate Professor of Law, in charge of the SPRIHA IPR Chair at National Law University, Delhi. 2023 Course Highlights I.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the sixth edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. A sample chapter, Chapter 14 (on publicity rights and endorsements), is available as a free download. Chapter 7: Special Topics in Competitor Lawsuits. Price: $12. Chapter 4: Deception.

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IIPRD

APRIL 2, 2024

The inclusion of TRIPS-plus provisions within trade agreements presents a potential challenge to global access to essential medicines. This price inflation can significantly hinder affordability and ultimately restrict access to life-saving medications. [vi] xiii] Ensuring access to affordable medications is a key priority for India.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Yogesh is a second year student from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and Tejaswini is a third year student from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Additionally, she offers an elective course on Disability Law and Legal System. Sanjit Kumar Chakraborty (Co-Supervisor). Sen, Prof. (Dr.)

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This is a book review of Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management edited by Sabine Jacques, Associate Professor in Information Technology, Media and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia Law School and Ruth Soetendorp, Visiting Academic, City University of London and Professor Emerita, Bournemouth University.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

This is a review of Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor by Glyn Moody. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up.

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The IPKat

APRIL 1, 2024

As Merpel was wading through the usual analysis, she stumbled across a novel topic in a post from her Parisian Kat friend, Lionel Martin ( August-Debouzy ) posing the question as to whether the Court of Appeal's panel composition is in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) - and whether anyone would care enough to challenge it.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year saw the introduction of Law 4996/2022, which brought significant changes to IP legislation in Greece, amending several provisions of the existing Copyright Law 2121/1993 as well as Law 4481/2017 on Collective Management. Law 4996/2022 was implemented into the Greek legislation EU Directive 2019/789.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 10, 2023

Last week, Erik provided comments to the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee regarding proposed changes (increases) to many trademark fees. Pelton & Associates, PLLC Regarding “Trademark Public Advisory Committee Public Hearing on the Proposed Trademark Fee Schedule” The following are comments provided by Erik M.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 17, 2022

Lokesh attempts to find grounding for it in Indian law through the current post. He is an LLM Candidate (IP and Technology) at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), InfoJustice Fellow at PIJIP , and Arodhum Scholar, 2021. He graduated from the Institute of Law Nirma University, Ahmedabad in 2021. Lokesh Vyas.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2022

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging from art and literature to fashion and cinema, remain among the hottest legal topics in the world of intangible rights, despite the lack of clear legal regulation. Here, the Court appointed an expert to provide a report regarding the use of the portrait and its communication to the public.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 18, 2021

I believe that folks who register have access to the paper. Publication Opportunity : I have been newly appointed as the advisor for Mizzou Law’s business law journal: the Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Review (BETR). They prefer shorter articles (~20 pages) written and footnoted in law review style.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The latter can be helpful if people want to access a streaming service’s content library in another country. This basically means that people circumvent access restrictions if they choose to use a VPN to access content outside these artificial borders. Dr. Eleonora Rosati’s IPKitten article on the topic.

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The IPKat

JUNE 26, 2022

The event is designed to encourage interactive discussions among participants through panel debates, with each of them covering 4 or 5 key topics related to each specific sector. There will also be panels on CJEU and General Court case law, judicial approaches to parasitic competition, and international design protection strategies.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here the final version is a clear improvement over the original Parliament text as it no longer suggests that model providers need to distinguish between copyright-protected and public domain training materials and then apply different transparency standards to both, which would be unworkable.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Said to have been inspired by the American COMPETES Act, 2007, the draft Act was to “facilitate public, private or public-private partnership initiatives for building an Innovation support system to encourage Innovation ….” draft Act that attempted to codify trade secret law. I think it was the first (and only?)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

CFAA : The key question is whether hiQ’s continued access following receipt of LinkedIn’s cease-and-desist letter was “without authorization” under the CFAA. CFAA : The key question is whether hiQ’s continued access following receipt of LinkedIn’s cease-and-desist letter was “without authorization” under the CFAA.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Photo by Joey Csunyo on Unsplash In recent years, copyright departments in governments around the world have been preoccupied with AI’s effects on copyright industries and, more recently, copyright law challenges created for AI industries. What about ‘Down Under’? Which copyright issues has the Australian government been grappling with?

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 19, 2021

COPYRIGHT The Government of Hong Kong recently released a public consultation paper on updating the national Copyright regime (the "Copyright Ordinance"). InternKat James Kwong has analysed the public consultation in detail and provides his comment. PATENTS Permakat Prof.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

When the tabloids started spreading complete nonsense about a change in UK law, people with influence could’ve helped put that right. Every instance of outrageous ‘reporting’ sends a message of danger to the general public, warning that something terrible will happen if they aren’t careful.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We’re pleased to inform you that The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) is offering a short course on ‘Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property’ from 4th March 4 to 13th May, 2022. Course Topics. Pharmaceutical intellectual property in international intellectual property and trade law.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is a review of Copyright and Cartography : History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge, by Professor Isabella Alexander , University of Technology Sydney, Australia. This book is available in both hardback and digital open access. As these are more like social media apps than maps.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Access Copyright. Both Access Copyright and the RRO in French-speaking Canada, Copibec , have expressed support in the wake of the judgement for the Court’s invitation to rightsholders to seek a legislative remedy from the Canadian Parliament. A process of public consultation was set up to address the issues raised by the president.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

To help inspire junior IP researchers in this, the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law ( IBIL ) invites applications from PhD students engaged in intellectual property research to present a ‘work in progress’ paper at its PhD conference on 26 June 2024. Who should apply?

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

If regulated services can determine who is under-18 (spoiler: they cannot), the bill would likely result in Minnesota minors being excluded entirely from UGC websites–depriving them of the opportunity to build communities and access content they need to grow, learn, and flourish.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo by Emily Wang on Unsplash The UK’s attempt to deal with generative AI, training data and copyright law has taken yet another turn. Copyright law has always been an emotional topic. Fuelled by AI concerns, it becomes borderline explosive. Such issues emerge in two respects. First, when selecting the members of the group.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 10, 2024

Exclusive Resource: 50-State Non-Compete/ Trade Secret Desktop Reference: Access our comprehensive overview for an in-depth understanding of non-compete secret laws across the United States. To access, click here. Programs that are not open to the public are not eligible for credit in NC.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

CIDs are legal requests for information or documents that the FTC uses to investigate potential consumer protection or antitrust law violations. The FTC has previously issued guidance and reports on these topics and brought enforcement actions against companies that misused or misrepresented their AI capabilities.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2009 the Committee initiated text-based negotiations on L&Es for persons with visual impairments, which led to the adoption in 2013 of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled , the first WIPO treaty to focus on user rights.

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