TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts and over the years several ISPs have been sued because of them. Following the verdict, several of the labels shifted their focus to the next targets , including ISP Grande Communications, which is now owned by Astound. Record Labels vs. Grande Trial.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 13, 2023

These cases target ChatGPT’s OpenAI but other platforms are targeted as well. With more than 10,000 responses, it is clear that the topic is close to the hearts of many people. A key allegation in these complaints is that the AI was trained using pirated books. The tone of the responses isn’t hard to guess either.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 15, 2024

For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. Exhibit A: FMovies MPA’s boss wasn’t secretive about the top target either. politicians would rather avoid. That’s no longer the case… In recent years calls for a U.S. site-blocking regime have started to flare up.

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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 Danish anti-piracy outfit sent a DMCA takedown notice to The Eye, targeting the “Books3” training dataset. At the same time, AI is causing grave concerns within the copyright industries.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Over in the Senate, the Fiscal Responsibility Subcommittee will discuss how changes to privacy policies in Big Tech firms have impacted targeted advertising activities for a wide swath of the economy.

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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. Lawsuits Target VPN Piracy. One of the targeted companies is cloud hosting provider Sharktech, which counts several VPN providers among its customers. courts as well. For example, YTS.mx

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even back then, privacy issues were a hot topic with many concerned that such a public database of personal information would lead to spam, harassment and other issues. They were hot topics in the nascent internet as much as they were in the modern one. The system has been around in some form or another since 1982.

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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. However, this won’t be the last case like this.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 27, 2023

It’s a fairly sensitive topic, to put it mildly. Both had obvious topic tags and were very easy to find from the beginning. Takedown notices targeting pirate IPTV services, their sales portals in particular, are sent to Google on a regular basis. Sky isn’t simply a broadcaster, though, it owns content too.

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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 plaintiffs have always maintained that they don’t intend to pursue legal action against the targeted Redditors.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2023

On March 17, Musk raised the topic once again. Before he took ownership of Twitter, Musk said that having the code out in the open would be a smart move, but the end of February came and went, without any code appearing in public. “Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st,” he tweeted.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The WIPO Secretariat went back to commissioning studies and typologies, and for a year centered the discussions outside of the SCCR, convening three regional seminars and an international conference on the topic.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 4, 2022

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts and several ISPs have been sued over the years. Following the verdict, several of the labels shifted their focus to the next targets , including ISP Grande Communications. The most prominent outcome thus far is the guilty verdict against Cox from late 2019.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 17, 2021

Instead, judge simply says the Second Circuit hasn’t addressed the topic. Target Class Certified. The court acknowledges the precedent applying the ADA to retailers’ websites, but it doesn’t extend to a standalone content website. The opinion cites the 2015 NFB v. Scribd precedent but doesn’t distinguish it.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2024

While no communication appears to have been received from the communications regulator on that topic, AGCOM has managed to find time to fine ASSOProvider for obstructing AGCOM’s supervisory activities. More Piracy Shield Controversy The news that AGCOM has sanctioned ASSOProvider first appeared on the ISP association’s website.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Where once peer-to-peer services were the obvious choice, these days people also utilize platforms such as WhatsApp, Discord and Facebook, which add social elements to the sharing experience by bringing like-minded people together, often around a central topic. Legal Action Targeting WhatsApp and Pirates.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This free, in-person event provides a forum for IP PhD students to discuss their research in a friendly and supportive environment while meeting others researching similar topics.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 16, 2023

ACE Celebrates Win, Streamzz Infuriates Users In an announcement Wednesday, ACE chief Jan van Voorn said that the closure of Streamzz shows that the coalition is capable of targeting pirates no matter where they exist in the chain of supply. Others operating in more specialist niches catering to more specific tastes, were absolutely furious.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark LETTERS & NUMBERS (in standard character form) on the Supplemental Register, finding it to be generic for printed and electronic publications "in the field of educational and entertainment materials targeted to children on the topic of alphanumeric characters and symbols."

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In August 2022, Japanese manga publisher Shueisha filed an ex parte application at a California district court seeking information for use in a foreign proceeding – a lawsuit in Vietnam or Japan targeting pirate site operators. com – were also among the targets in the ex parte application filed last August.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

And the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been blogging fast and furiously – one could say obsessively – about the hot topic of generative artificial intelligence (AI). But if you are involved with marketing or the provision of new and exciting AI tools, take a close look at the FTC trilogy of blog entries on the topic.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2021

I wrote about a similar topic prior to Allegiant Air becoming the official sponsor of the Las Vegas stadium that the Raiders now call home. Then again, Seattle has been a target city for an NBA expansion team or franchise relocation since the departure of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City in 2008. I’m experiencing déjà vu.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 17, 2022

has become the target of many takedown requests from book publishers. Interestingly, however, the site itself also sent a takedown notice to Google , targeting another book portal. Meanwhile at Z-Library… The notices show that Z-Library remains a hot topic, and not just among authors and users of the site.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

The RFC is targeting self-regulatory, regulatory, and other measures and policies to provide reliable evidence that AI systems are legal, effective, ethical, safe, and otherwise trustworthy. What kinds of data access is necessary to conduct audits and assessments.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

The TRO acts like a supernotice compared to the traditional takedown notice: it targets sellers, not individual items; and it implicates their cash from all of their sales, not just the allegedly infringing listings.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

Regarding the ad targeting, despite the evidence provided by Ladbrokes, the ASA was not satisfied that the medium in which the ad appeared had entirely excluded under-18’s from its audience. Further, Twitter’s ad-targeting tools rely on behavioural attributes (e.g. interests and accounts followed) to support its age inferences.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs. to terminate subscribers whose accounts were targeted by three unique infringement notices in three days. This would allow the companies to target the alleged pirates directly.

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Corsearch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

ChatGPT’s powerful language model has been trained on a wide variety of topics, making it incredibly versatile and adaptive. Customization Options: Tailor Name Generator to suit your specific needs by selecting your target markets, industry, and desired name style.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 1, 2022

However, in February 2011, Google launched its “Panda” update , which heavily targeted content farms, including sites that were engaging in scraping. In 2006, for example, Google told legitimate authors not to worry about duplicate content issues. This includes having your work scraped and republished on other sites.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 20, 2022

Web scraping has been a divisive topic both ethically and legally in large part because of variety of activities it covers. This case pits the social networking site LinkedIn is targeting the data company HiQ. The Divisive History of Web Scraping. The LinkedIn Case.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 10, 2024

For anybody unfamiliar with the term, site-blocking is a targeted, legal tactic to disrupt the connection between digital pirates and their intended audience. ” While that is still likely to be a hot topic for debate in the coming months, Rivkin’s search engine comment deserves more attention.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2023

The regulation is mostly targeted at legitimate user-generated content platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. After we published a second article on the topic last month, a spokesperson informed us that a long-term solution is being sought, without taking away opportunities for EU citizens to speak out. “We

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Corsearch

OCTOBER 6, 2023

ChatGPT is a powerful language model that has been trained on a wide variety of topics, making it incredibly versatile and adaptive. Customization Options: Tailor Name Generator to suit your specific needs by selecting your target markets, industry, and desired name style.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

To piggyback on the editorial board analogy, if the newspaper itself had published an account of its editorial policies and decisions, and it turned out to be potentially fraudulent in some way, it would not chill the newspaper’s exercise of editorial control to investigate whether the newspaper’s public statements on that topic were false.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2023

This includes documentaries covering topics such as Navalny or the Ukraine conflict, which are effectively banned in Russia. This means that they may have been banned by Roskomnadzor or targeted through a court order. Ukraine Censorship or Copyright Enforcement? After doing some additional research we found that several other.su

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Regarding the ad targeting, despite the evidence provided by Ladbrokes, the ASA was not satisfied that the medium in which the ad appeared had entirely excluded under-18’s from its audience. Further, Twitter’s ad-targeting tools rely on behavioural attributes (e.g.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

Half a decade of tracking is significant and tends to suggest an important target. Homeland Security, “Site Shut Down” The press release issued by the Ministry of Culture immediately scaled down the nature of the target. ” Big (Conflicting) Claims This claim piqued our interest. With Assistance from U.S.

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