INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- Using music in your business? Copyright fees proposed to increase
- Disney (Disney!) Accused Of Trying To Lawyer Its Way Out Of Paying Royalties To Alan Dean Foster
- Who Owns Vacation Photos of You? Probably Not You–Hubay v. Mendez (Eric Goldman)
- Hyperlinking: more control for copyright owners
- “Cultural misinterpretation” or designer’s freedom?
- Due diligence of copyright is key when purchasing a record label business
- Poland’s Bid To Get Upload Filters Taken Out Of The EU Copyright Directive Suddenly Looks Much More Hopeful
- Brexit and copyright: 6 key things to know
- Good News: Academics Can Make Their Articles Published In Top Journal Nature Freely Available As Open Access. Bad News: They Must Pay $11,000 For Each One
- Bricks and mortar or is online in order? Federal Court of Appeal checks in to trademark use and hotel services
- UK High Court finds EAGLE RARE infringed by AMERICAN EAGLE
- Puma v Nike Footwear brands dispute FOOTWARE
- The Lord Chamberlain v Grant Harrold – British Queen blocks Royal Butler trade mark
- Taiwanese Semiconductor Pleads Guilty, To Pay $60 Million Fine for Criminal Trade Secret Theft
- Understanding compulsory licensing: a global overview
- Recent Patent Developments in the Autonomous Vehicle Market
- Common Patent Misconceptions – Myth #5 – Provisional Applications
- Printed Matter Is Patentable If It’s Functional, Not Just Communicative
- Facebook Could See Antitrust Charges From Nearly 40 States Over Acquisitions Of Instagram, WhatsApp
- Advertisers Challenge Facebook’s Representations on Audience Targeting and Fraudulent Traffic
- Disappointing: Netflix Decides To Settle With Chooseco LLC Over ‘Bandersnatch’ Lawsuit
- White House Offers To Allow Renaming Confederate Bases… In Exchange For Getting Rid Of Section 230
- Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Attracts International Attention When It Removes A Historic Vietnam War Photo Posted By The Editor-in-Chief Of Norway’s Biggest Newspaper (2016)
- Snapchat Giving $1 Million Per Day To “Top” Creators With New Short Video Platform ‘Spotlight’
- USPTO Releases Public Comments on AI
- Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Transatlantic Approaches
- Intellectual property strategies for data and artificial intelligence – ThinkHouse
- Attention, mall shoppers: your data is being collected!
- US Military Is Buying Location Data From Data Brokers, Including Data Pulled From US App Users
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale question use of likeness in FIFA
- Mine, Mine, Mine! Nintendo Neuters The Cool Ways People, Groups Are Using ‘Animal Crossing’
- Nintendo axes fan-run Smash tournament over online play mod
- Nintendo orders cancellation of Smash Bros tournament over mod use: The Big House’s first online competition scrapped due to modified Melee that enables smoother online play
- Nintendo lawsuit takes aim at yet another Nintendo Switch hack seller
- Nintendo suing yet another Switch hack reseller: Amazon seller taken to court in platform holder’s ongoing fight against “serious, worsening international problem” of piracy
- Nintendo issues new Animal Crossing guidelines to keep politics out of the game
- Nintendo publishes Animal Crossing guidelines for businesses: The platform holder asked organisations to “refrain from bringing politics” into New Horizons
- Next-gen consoles have few answers to Argentina’s longstanding reliance on piracy: Argentina’s gamers approach next-gen with uncertainty, due to rising prices and the difficulty of turning to the black market
- Does Apple’s 15% platform cut change the game?
- Tim Sweeney on Apple’s 15% cut: “We’re not fighting for a lower commission” – Epic Games CEO says 30% commission “is not wrongful, it’s just a bad deal”
- Epic adds a subscription service to Fortnite
- Epic Games launches ‘Fortnite Crew’ monthly subscription plan
- Epic Games’ MegaGrants program surpasses $60m in financial support
- Twitch’s No Good, Very Bad Time Continues: Part 2
- Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin Departs Company After 12 Years: “I Will Build Again”
- The New York Times Is Broadcasting Collaborative Crosswords On Twitch
- Hitman developer IO Interactive teases Project 007: James Bond licence emerges from stealth and will be used to tell a brand new origin story
- Aiming to curb DMCAs, CDPR builds copyrighted music toggle into Cyberpunk 2077
- ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Has A Built-In Mode For Content Creators That Disables Copyrighted Music
- Ridiculous: ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Will Ship With A Mode Just To Help Streamers Avoid DMCA Notices
- Nvidia sidesteps the App Store to bring GeForce Now game streaming to iOS
- Analysis: Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service comes to iOS
- Stadia plans to bypass App Store with web app iOS launch
- Google Stadia begins public iOS test in a few weeks: With Apple blocking games streaming via apps, Google moves Stadia to Safari as a web app
- GeForce Now arrives on iOS via Safari: Nvidia gets around App Store’s game streaming policies with a beta version of browser-based offering, will soon add support for GOG storefront titles
- The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer?
- Blog: Is Apple’s platform fee reduction a PR move or sound investment?
- Patenting video games in Europe – The EPO’s Board of Appeal decide in favour of Nintendo (T1504/17)
- U.S. Patent No. 10,532,290: Sharing recorded gameplay to a social graph
- Canadian Government introduces legislation that would fundamentally transform the broadcasting system
- The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day One: Why There is No Canadian Content Crisis (Michael Geist)
- The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Two: What the Government Doesn’t Say About Creating a “Level Playing Field” (Michael Geist)
- The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Three: Minister Guilbeault Says Bill C-10 Contains Economic Thresholds That Limit Internet Regulation. It Doesn’t. (Michael Geist)
- The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Four: Why Many News Sites Are Captured by Bill C-10 (Michael Geist)
- The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day Five: The Narrow Exclusion of User Generated Content Services (Michael Geist)
- Trump’s FCC Nominee Asked Fox News To Help Destroy Section 230 To Help Elect More Republicans
- Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees
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