Visual deception in phishing attacks is more present today than many care to admit. Phishing campaigns, for example, the recent Unpaid Toll Scams, employ visual deception. In this post, we show how phishers exploit peoples' tendencies to see what they want to read rather than what appears in a message or hyperlink.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/common-visual-deceptions-in-phishing
EU Finds Shein Guilty of Violating Consumer Protection Law
#consumerprotectionlaw #ECOMMERCE #EuropeanUnion #infringement #Shein
https://blazetrends.com/eu-finds-shein-guilty-of-violating-consumer-protection-law/?fsp_sid=39313
Photographer Sues Virgin Over Photo of Richard Branson’s Late Mother https://petapixel.com/2025/05/05/photographer-sues-virgin-over-photo-of-richard-bransons-late-mother/ #copyrightinfringement #richardbranson #infringement #copyright #lawsuit #News #Law
Quite a few people have raised concerns about #trademarks because of the #OpenVox name and the use of the #puppet command names and paths. We thought we'd talk a bit about trademark and why we don't have an #infringement concern, and describe our roadmap to changing some of the paths in safe and non-disruptive ways. https://overlookinfratech.com/2025/03/20/a-whirlwind-conversation-on-trademarks/
#Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive , sound historian says
On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound #recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass #copyright #infringement through its #Great78Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s.
1 Album, 2 Stücke - na klar, wir sind nach wie vor im Genre #ProgRock. Dieses Album kommt aus Norwegen und die Band #Infringement zieht alle Register - schwelgerische Melodien, satte Gitarren, aber auch zahlreiche Tempowechsel und daher durchweg spannend!
https://infringement.bandcamp.com/album/black-science-and-white-lies
Yesterday evening: exchange with the Commission on our ask for more effective #infringement procedures. Got the feeling that it will be a long way to go until full #transparency. This though is about @vonderleyen being the Guardian of the Treaties, ensuring legal commitments and #RuleofLaw are implemented to protect citizens! #compliance
Scam warning!
The site metahealthcommunity.com is not supported by META-Health International as it is disrespecting MHI's legal rights as trademark holder. MHI is pursuing this case as trademark infringement.
In regard to MHI's research the creator 5oclockmediahouse.pro is suspicious for scam:
https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/5oclockmediahouse-pro-review/
Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain
One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:
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#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube
Finally some good news about #AI: an AI company losing a #copyright #infringement #lawsuit. And said company went out of #business due to the legal fees of the case.
May many more fall likewise.
https://www.theverge.com/news/610721/thomson-reuters-ross-intelligence-ai-copyright-infringement
The avalanche transceiver dispute at the UPC reaches its next stage, with the patentee now having prevailed in the action on the merits (after obtaining a provisional injunction).
The UPC has considered infringement by equivalents a few times. Here, it declined to opine on a specific test, noting that any test requires functional equivalence as a prerequisite, which was lacking in the case.
Provisional injunction on hand held vacuum cleaners overturned on appeal as CoA was not convinced the accused products worked as the patent claim requires.
Having prevailed at the central division with the patent maintained in amended form, Edwards is also successful at the Munich local division in asserting its patent on prosthetic heart valves against Meril.
This is a really interesting decision from the UPC finding infringement by equivalent means, and suggesting a 4 stage test by which equivalents should be assessed. We shall see if it is adopted more widely.
https://eip.com/uk/latest/article/upc_finds_patent_infringed_by_equivalence/
#Meta Secretly Trained Its #AI on Notorious #Piracy Database. “Meta just lost major fight in ongoing legal battle w group of authors suing the company for #copyright #infringement over how it trained its #artificialintelligence models. Against the company’s wishes a #court #unredacted info alleging that Meta used Library Genesis (#LibGen), a notorious so-called shadow #library of #pirated #books that originated in Russia to help train its generative AI language models. https://www.bespacific.com/meta-secretly-trained-its-ai-on-a-notorious-piracy-database/
For @Kitty's #MittwochMetalMix:
2. #Infringement: Black Science and White Lies
BAM: Today's EU audit confirms 👉 the #infringement system of @vonderleyen is too slow! The @EUCommission must now ramp up enforcement. With @birdlifeeurope & @EEB I am calling to also publish all infringement letters to deliver transparency! https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS-SR-2024-28
28.11.2024
"The Commission is adopting a package of infringement decisions due to the absence of communication by Member States of measures taken to transpose EU directives into national law."
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/inf_24_5988
