News of the Week; February 17, 2021

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. A consultation on how to implement an extended general term of copyright protection in Canada (Canada)
2. Copyright Term Extension – March 12 2021 Deadline to Respond to Very Disappointing Document (Howard Knopf)
3. Afraid to Lead: Canadian Government Launches Timid Consultation on Implementing Copyright Term Extension (Michael Geist)
4. The Copyright Bill That Does Nothing: Senate Bill Proposes Copyright Reform to Support Media Organizations (Michael Geist) 
5. Copyright Term Extension: To Life Plus 70 Years, But Not Beyond! Government Consultation on Copyright Term Extension Now Open
6. Should We Require Human Inventorship? Submit Your Amicus Brief by March
7. Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime’s ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed?: Police in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram’s copyright filters.
8. Copyright and database rights in database schema: Software Solutions Ltd and others v 365 Health and Wellbeing Ltd and Smith
9. Judiciary’s Approach to Moral Rights under Copyright Law
10. H&M and Unicolors weave up at Copyright battle at US SC
11. UK Courts find hidden voice in film authorship dispute
12. Pan-European Design Protection: Considerations for the fashion sector post-Brexit 
13. Utah Theme Park Sues Taylor Swift Over Album Title After Exploiting It 
14. A Shoe-In? Fleet Feet Gives Injunction Appeal the Moot Boot
15. Amazon keeps hitting the target… but not quite in a trade mark context 
16. One too many Pink Ladies
17. Tefal fails to secure trade mark protection for its red dot despite survey evidence 
18. ‘It’s like milk but made for humans’: General Court overturns EUIPO’s refusal to register Oatly’s trade mark
19. When is a slogan a trade mark?
20. Random Jackass Attempts To Trademark ‘Mayor Of Mar-A-Lago’ In The Most Hilarious Way
21. How life sciences companies can strengthen IP strategies through the use of trade secrets
22. ITC Finds Trade Secret Misappropriation and Bars Electric Vehicle Batteries from SK Innovation—With Exceptions
23. $6 Million Verdict Vacated in Flooring Tech Trade Secrets Row
24. The Facts on Fax Machines: They’re Not Dead, They’re Indefinite
25. Foreign Prosecution History: To Admit, Or Not To Admit, That Remains a Puzzle To Canadian Courts 
26. Federal Court finds silodosin formulation patent valid but not infringed
27. Patent application extensions of time in Canada
28. Extensions of time in Canada: worth the trouble?
29. Contradictory Positions Render Claims Indefinite 
30. “Safe Harbor” Act May Save Pfizer From Infringement for Covid Vaccine Clinical Trials
31. It Is Improper To Read a Claim in a Grammatically Incorrect Way Simply To Include a Disclosed Embodiment
32. US patents: Body blow for antibodies 
33. There’s no such thing as an international patent
34. Everyday IP — Flushing out the facts: When was indoor plumbing invented?
35. From Snail Mail to Streaming: The Netflix Intellectual Property Story
36. Cloud Contracts: The Impact of Common Terms of Service Provisions on Intellectual Property Rights
37. The link between intellectual property rights and business performance 
38. IP law looms large over U.S.-China relations
39. Why Laid Off Bell Sports Journalists Should Form A Worker Co-op: We cannot rely on legacy corporate media to save the journalism industry. It’s time to build something better.
40. Circumventing Parliament: How Bill C-10 Dramatically Reduces Parliamentary Oversight and Review Over Broadcast Policy (Michael Geist)
41. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? (Eric Goldman)
42. Dumb New GOP Talking Point: If You Restore Net Neutrality, You HAVE To Kill Section 230. Just Because!
43. A reckoning for the paparazzi and tabloid media
44. Facebook goes nuclear, banning all news posts in Australia
45. Big Tech opens wallet for publishers as Australian news code looms
46. Google and Facebook grapple with news publishers, as Australia becomes a test case
47. The Internet Is Splintering
48. Posing as Amazon seller, consumer group investigates fake-review industry
49. There won’t be blood: Apple is making its syringe emoji a vaccine dose
50. State lawmakers override veto, become first in nation to tax online ads
51. Biden Administration Presses Pause on WeChat and TikTok Appeals
52. Biden Administration Asks Federal Courts to Pause TikTok and WeChat Cases
53. Twitter CFO Says Trump Is Banned In Perpetuity, Even If He Runs For Office Again
54. Facebook has been helping law enforcement identify Capitol rioters
55. Facebook Blocks News Viewing, Sharing In Australia, Faces Backlash From Emergency Services
56. Zuckerberg responds to Apple’s privacy policies: “We need to inflict pain”: Meeting between Zuckerberg, Cook “resulted in a tense standoff.”
57. Insights: Apple And Facebook Are Fighting For The Future As Much As For Now
58. Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court: The company has created a board that can overrule even Mark Zuckerberg. Soon it will decide whether to allow Trump back on Facebook.
59. The Copia Institute To The Oversight Board Regarding Facebook’s Trump Suspension: There Was No Wrong Decision
60. Zuckerberg’s Grand Illusion: Understanding The Oversight Board Experiment
61. United States: towards the end of Internet intermediary immunity?
62. New details emerge about Google’s payments to link to French news sites
63. Why young designers are using social media to shame fast fashion copycats
64. Orrin Hatch, Who Once Wanted To Destroy The Computers Of Anyone Who Infringed On Copyrights, Now Lies About Section 230
65. Content Moderation Case Study: Valve Takes A Hands Off Approach To Porn Via Steam (2018)
66. Content Moderation Case Study: Google ‘Removes’ German Residences From Street View By Request (2010)
67. Section 230 Protects App Store from Liability for Apps With Loot Boxes–Coffee v. Google (Eric Goldman)
68. Section 230 Applies to Articles by Huffington Post Contributors–Page v. Oath (Eric Goldman)
69. WhatsApp messages – who is in control?
70. YouTube’s ‘Shorts’ TikTok Clone, With 3.5 Billion Daily Views, To Arrive In The U.S. This March
71. YouTube Launches Bi-Weekly ‘Shorts Report’ To Bolster Its TikTok Competitor
72. TikTok’s U.S. Ad Business Grew 500% In 2020, It Says
73. SAG-AFTRA Ratifies New ‘Influencer Agreement’ Covering Creator-Generated Branded Content
74. Disney+ Closes 2020 With 94.9 Million Subscribers, Expects To Hit 230 Million In 2024
75. An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
76. IP law and strategy for AI – A European perspective
77. Top Ten Legal Considerations for Use and/or Development of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
78. Enough is enough ‎—‎ Governing the ungovernable
79. FTC Settles Facial Recognition Data Misuse Allegations with App Developer
80. he Perfect Storm for Privacy and Adtech: How the End of the Cookie Era Will Reshape the Digital Marketplace
81. Information Commissioner confirms conservatives illegally collected data to racially profile voters
82. Nintendo reportedly raises damages sought in Colopl lawsuit to $47m
83. Nintendo claims additional damages in White Cat Project lawsuit
84. Epic Games’ Case Against Teenage Fortnite Cheater Finally Settles
85. Epic files EU antitrust complaint against Apple
86. Fortnite vs. Apple continues to escalate with new antitrust complaint
87. Fortnite fight expands as Epic claims Apple broke EU competition law
88. North Dakota lawmakers jump into Apple/Epic fight with new app store bill
89. Coalition for App Fairness behind North Dakota bill against Apple: Money from the organisation co-founded by Epic Games paid for lobbyists to introduce new bill into state senate
90. A North Dakota bill aiming to loosen Apple’s tight grip on iOS has failed
91. One Patent To Rule Them All | Podcast: We discuss the implications of Warner Bros’ Nemesis system patent, with Harbottle & Lewis’ Kostya Lobov
92. PC versions of Grand Theft Auto reverse-engineered to raw source code
93. Hackers claim to have sold Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3 source code
94. CD Projekt Red source code reportedly sells for millions in dark Web auction
95. How close is too close? A look into the use of altered trade marks and third-party ‘patches’ in videogames
96. Eximius dev relaunching title after publisher dispute
97. US game spending up 42% in January, says NPD
98. Zynga delivers record annual revenues thanks to ‘forever franchises’
99. Bad Robot looking to be the rare Hollywood-and-games success story
100. Last Of Us HBO series casts Pedro Pascal as Joel
101. Dota 2 is getting a Netflix series: The eight-episode anime series will launch on March 25
102. The ‘GaaS or subscription service’ squeeze in games
103. Blog: Video game music concerts in 2021

Jon