News of the Week; December 30, 2020

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Ninth Circuit Provides Holiday Win to Copyright Owners with Fair Use Decision
2. Neoprene Tote Bags: Watertight Not Copyright
3. Corellium notches partial victory in Apple iOS copyright case 
4. The Man With The Tiger Tattoo Prances Forward*
5. Copyright Claims Board To Be Established; Criminal Streaming Law 
6. Substantial similarity in copyright: It matters where you sue
7. EUIPO report on online copyright infringement of film, TV and music – so what’s popular?
8. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright) (Eric Goldman)
9. US Trademark and Copyright Reforms Accompany COVID-19 Relief 
10. A brand story: Santa and Coca-Cola 
11. Girl Scouts Continuing To Fight Boy Scouts Of America Over Trademarks, Branding 
12. Congress Passes the Trademark Modernization Act
13. Avoid New Trademark Email Scams
14. Brexit – Are you prepared? Pending UK Trade Mark proceedings: 3 key points to remember 
15. UDRP: hydroquébec.com 
16. Design disputes: combatting copycats with a collection of IP rights – Freddy SPA v Hugz Clothing Ltd 
17. Snapshot: procedure for design registration in USA
18. Quebec Court finds price and revenue calculation provisions of amended PMPRB Regulations unconstitutional 
19. Federal Circuit Finds Video Signal Conversion Claims Patent Ineligible 
20. Senators Tell The USPTO To Remove The Arbitrary Obstacles Preventing Inventors (Especially Women Inventors) From Getting Patents 
21. Why Everyone Is Patenting Software Inventions 
22. Inventions behind the music: From Eddie Van Halen to Michael Jackson and beyond 
23. Towards a Better Patent System for Europe: The Unified Patent Court (UPC)
24. Chinese Court Rules that It Can Set Patent License Terms outside China 
25. The Wuhan Submarine surfaces at Christmas, to be met by a Texan TRO
26. Lewis Hamilton’s IP struggles highlight some important issues
27. Cloud computing: A brief overview of intellectual property issues “in the cloud” 
28. Ninth Circuit Says Amazon Isn’t “Seller” of Marketplace Items–State Farm v. Amazon (Eric Goldman)
29. Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
30. European Union Rules: Facebook Hopes Limits on Apple, Too
31. Facebook Isn’t a Constructive Public Trust–Cameron Atkinson v. Facebook (Eric Goldman)
32. Ushering in a new age of accountability for big tech- UK government response to Online Harms White Paper consultation
33. EU turns the screw on Big Tech: The Digital Services Act Package
34. Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes (Andres Guadamuz)
35. When You Can’t Innovate, You Litigate: Oracle Gleefully Takes Credit For Attacks On Section 230 And Google
36. House overrides Trump veto, defying demand to repeal Section 230
37. McConnell introduces bill tying $2K stimulus checks to Section 230 repeal
38. Mitch McConnell Using Section 230 Repeal As A Poison Pill To Avoid $2k Stimulus Checks
39. Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not ‘Big Tech’ Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230
40. Who’s responsible for content posted on the Internet? Section 230, explained
41. Section 230 Isn’t A Subsidy; It’s A Rule Of Civil Procedure
42. 2H 2020 Quick Links, Part 2 (Section 230) (Eric Goldman)
43. Content Moderation Case Study: Profanity Filter Causes Problems At Paleontology Conference (October 2020)
44. Content Moderation Case Study: Understanding Cultural Context To Detect Satire (2020)
45. Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen
46. TikTokers’ Collaborative ‘Ratatouille’ Musical To Star Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, Adam Lambert
47. Apple reportedly warns devs of more app takedowns in Chinese App Store
48. What makes for a good game publishing contract?
49. Parents Who Gift Quest 2 to Kids Under 13 Years Old are in for an Unfortunate Surprise

Jon