IPKat
Launched in 2003 as a teaching aid for Intellectual Property Law students in London, the IPKat’s weblog has become a popular source of material, comment and amusement. IPKat covers copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
The IPKat team is Neil J. Wilkof, Annsley Merelle Ward, Darren Smyth, Nicola Searle, Eleonora Rosati, Merpel and David Brophy.
The IPKat team is Neil J. Wilkof, Annsley Merelle Ward, Darren Smyth, Nicola Searle, Eleonora Rosati, Merpel and David Brophy.
Articles by This Author
Book Review: The Legal Challenges of Social Media
This multi-disciplinary text struggles to reach conclusions because the law is evolving.
Milan Court Issues Dynamic Blocking Injunction Against Italian ISPs
An order telling Italian ISPs to block copyright infringing sites can apply to duplicate sites created after the order was made.
Web Framing of Images Is Not Copyright Violation Per Berlin Court
Framing is a technique where content hosted on one website is displayed within a section of a page on another website.
Top EU Court Decides Posting Content Online Does Not Weaken Copyrights
May a child download a photo she found online, then add it to her school's website? No, says the EU's Court of Justice.
UK Court Extends “Very Effective” Block on Pirate Football Streams
Pirate servers used to stream English Premier League games will be legally blocked by ISPs for the duration of the 2018/19 season.
Dutch Court Rules Against Business Selling Hyperlinks to Unlicensed Films
The decision further clarified what should be considered essential to the act of copyright piracy on the internet.
Telenor Sweden Finally Agrees to Block The Pirate Bay
Telenor's Swedish ISP has changed its policy on The Pirate Bay though no new court order has been issued.
YouTube AI Flags 80% of Unsafe Videos
YouTube removed over 8mn unsafe videos during the last three months of 2017. Most were taken down before anyone saw them.
Tele2 Not Forced to Give IP Addresses in Swedish Piracy Case
The Swedish telco won its appeal because the requested IP addresses belonged to foreign subsidiaries.
Book Review: Copyright and Information Privacy
By examining file-sharing rights in the USA, Canada and Italy, the author highlights how judges influence the balance between copyright and privacy.
German Court Says Google Cannot Hide Behind Algorithms
A former prisoner complained when a Google search yielded the description of another prisoner who was a sex offender.
Tension Between Brands and E-Commerce Platforms
Trademarked brands are withdrawing goods from online retailers like Amazon because they are upset with the sale of counterfeits.
The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard
Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.
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