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For the first time, the High Court of England and Wales has issued website blocking orders aimed at cyberlocker and streamripping sites/app and also opined that the CJEU won't follow the AG Opinion when it decides YouTube/Cyando ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/high-c…

The CJEU in C-392/19 VG Bild v Kunst requires rights holders or licensees to introduce effective TPMs against undesirable acts of framing. Conversely, framing that circumvents effective TPMs amounts to communication to the public-art 3(1)InfoSoc. tinyurl.com/nd9rra4r

Very handy (updated) guide on linking and the right of communication to the public 👇

Who’s the woman behind Wi-Fi🌐? In the 40s, Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr invented frequency-hopping signal technology – back then intended to direct torpedoes to their targets This technology paved the way for wireless communication that we use today: Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth

So the expected EC Article 17 Guidelines were not released today ... A date has not been set yet, but the publication should (could) be sometime "in the coming weeks"

Happy World IP Day! May all your literary works be original 🥳

Market Court [FI]: Reproducing a photo from an Instagram Stories post in a web article of a "tabloid" newspaper was (c) infringement and resulted in 5000 EUR compensation; this was not reporting of current events and the citation exception did not apply: finlex.fi/fi/oikeus/mao/…

New on the block: The EUIPO has integrated blockchain technology with its TMView and DesignView services. It will also launch a 'a decentralised, blockchain authentication platform that can help solve the global phenomenon of fakes' #Blockchain

Nail biting 😬

EU General Court says that ‘heartfulness’ for meditation cannot be registered as an EU trade mark ift.tt/3tahCe6

The report proposes to formalise the ‘trusted flagger’ in copyright enforcement: infringing streams to be ‘disabled immediately and no later than thirty minutes following a notification by rights holders or a certified “trusted flagger”.’

Today the 🇩🇪Deutscher Bundestag adopted the law implementing the new #copyright directive into German law. The German implementation of #Article17 will not avoid #uploadfilters but it sets a new standard for protecting users' rights. Read our first analysis here: communia-association.org/2021/05/20/ger…

Super excited for this. Congrats to everyone who worked on it.

CV-Online Latvia is out; Maciej Szpunar followed 101 % by the court as CJEU redefines the infringement test for sui generis database right by requiring "risk that that investment may not be redeemed" curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

HERE WE GO: CJEU has just ruled that a user-uploaded content platform does not communicate to the public unless it contributes, beyond merely making that platform available, to giving access to such content to the public in breach of copyright

The Government has launched a call for views on the repeal of Section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act in 2016. We are looking for your views to find out if this regulation has achieved its objectives. Have your say 👉 ow.ly/kGjc50FfI44

Great initiative by the EUIPO to make available out-of-commerce copyright works and help right holders identify them. Lets see how it will work out.

Judgment in Case T‑488/20 Guerlain v EUIPO - The three-dimensional mark in the shape of a Guerlain lipstick may be registered.

AG Opinion in C-401/19 sees #Article17 compatible with freedom of expression and implementation must contain (technical) safeguards for the same. What could possibly go wrong? 😵‍💫👇Full text now available tinyurl.com/h58vuwyp

It's he-e-e-re: The free, online, CC-BY-NC-SA version of Between Truth and Power juliecohen.com/between-truth-…, only 10 months late. Hey, there's been a global pandemic. Tip of the hat to Oxford Academic for their willingness to let me do this.