Online Global Week in Review 1 January 2010 from IP Think Tank
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District Court C D California finds isoHunt guilty of inducing copyright infringement: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc et al v Gary Fung et al (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Michael Geist) (1709 Copyright Blog) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
National Arbitration Forum: Small Toronto firms beats Google in domain name dispute: Groovle v Google (Michael Geist) (Ars Technica)
It’s the silly season but this is ridiculous (IP Think Tank)
Year end wishes for 2010 (ipeg)
Conduit bans Torrent and P2P words on browser toolbars (TorrentFreak)
uTorrent users double to 52 million in a year despite legal setbacks for The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt (TorrentFreak)
Top tier BitTorrent sites suffer pain in 2009 (TorrentFreak)
Cory Doctorow, how to destroy the book (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Canadian Government convinces German ISP to shut down environmental parody sites (Michael Geist)
Bejing court tells Mian Mian and Google to hold talks on settlement and report back to court (1709 Copyright Blog) (IPKat)
Intermediary liability and the IT Amendment Act (Spicy IP)
BitTorrent sites may be censored in Italy – Supreme Court rules that ISPs can be forced to block BitTorrent sites, even if not hosted in Italy or operated by Italian citizens (TorrentFreak)
Piracy surcharge set to force 40,000 households offline (TorrentFreak)
UK lawyers drop ‘non-viable’ file-sharing cases (TorrentFreak)
Licences for links: Meltwater and the NLA (1709 Copyright Blog)
The Digital Economy Bill – is the consumer fitting the bill? (IPKat)
November and December 2009 – quick links of all the top stories (Technology & Marketing Law Blog) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
If nothing else, patent attorneys will follow the semantics – machine-or-transformation standard and claim terms (ISinIP)
US Patents – Lawsuits and strategic steps
Nokia – Nokia hurls new salvo in spat with Apple, complains to ITC (Ars Technica) (ITC)
US Legislators cannot trust claims that 37% of the DMCA takedown notices that Google receives fail to state “valid copyright claims” (IPcentral)
District Court C D California finds isoHunt guilty of inducing copyright infringement: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc et al v Gary Fung et al (TorrentFreak) (Ars Technica) (Michael Geist) (1709 Copyright Blog) (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
National Arbitration Forum: Small Toronto firms beats Google in domain name dispute: Groovle v Google (Michael Geist) (Ars Technica)
Thrombin JM – Pharma company avoids injunction by dropping competitive keyword ads: King v ZymoGenetics (Technology & Marketing Law Blog)
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