This reminds me of the time when a client tried to get me to design a logo that was similar to another company's logo and I refused. Situations like this are why I didn’t. #retiredgraphicdesigner #copyright #intellectualproperty (📷: WTHR)

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/oreo-maker-mondelez-sues-aldi-lookalike-packaging-chips-ahoy-wheat-thins/507-b8e6893a-94f2-4e72-93e6-24edafaab2ee

The Map Room: Unauthorized Waffle House Index Disaster Maps Taken Down. “The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used to assess the severity of a storm in the U.S. South, because Waffle House restaurants don’t close unless Things Are Very Bad. But when Jack LaFond scraped Waffle House’s website to build a map tracking restaurant closures last fall, he got a cease-and-desist from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/the-map-room-unauthorized-waffle-house-index-disaster-maps-taken-down/

Dutch defense minister warns of Chinese spying threat

Beijing’s espionage on Dutch semiconductors and other high-tech areas is “intensifying,” Ruben Brekelmans tells Reuters at Shangri-La Dialogue security forum.

POLITICO

Anime Corner: Piracy: Japanese ‘Detailed Spoilers’ Website Referred to Prosecutors Over Copyright Infringement. “A company operating a website that provided detailed spoilers and images of films has been referred to the Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of violating the Copyright Act. Five men and women, including the company manager, were also referred; the Miyagi […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/piracy-japanese-detailed-spoilers-website-referred-to-prosecutors-over-copyright-infringement-anime-corner/

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ATU Partners acquires management control of 3Y Corporation, expanding its entertainment portfolio with girl group QWER and top digital creators, aiming to boost global IP competitiveness and growth.
#YonhapInfomax #ATUPartners #3YCorporation #QWER #IntellectualProperty #KContentFund #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=65236
ATU Partners, Investor in 'TiniPing', Acquires Agency Behind Girl Group QWER

ATU Partners acquires management control of 3Y Corporation, expanding its entertainment portfolio with girl group QWER and top digital creators, aiming to boost global IP competitiveness and growth.

Yonhap Infomax
James Bond franchise owners request more time to defend control of 007 spy name

Exclusive: Dubai-based property developer has challenged trademark registrations over lack of use

The Guardian
You can now connect your Box and #Dropbox accounts to #DeepResearch on #ChatGPT and pull data, which will be used by the #AI to conduct #research. Please do not do this - you will add to the unending pool of data being sucked out of creators and repurposed for profit - not your profit or benefit. #copyright #KM #research #legalresearch #education #copyright #intellectualproperty https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-deep-research-can-now-pull-data-from-dropbox-and-box/
ChatGPT Deep Research can now pull data from Dropbox and Box

You can now connect your Box and Dropbox accounts to Deep Research on ChatGPT and pull data, which will be used by the AI to conduct research.

BleepingComputer
https://www.alojapan.com/1283194/japan-benefits-from-indias-improving-ip-ecosystem-india/ Japan benefits from India’s improving IP ecosystem | India #DelhiHighCourt #India #IndiaJapanTradeAndInvestment #innovation #IntellectualProperty #IPReforms #Japan #JapanNews #Kochhar&Co #news #PatentProsecutionHighway #TarvinderSingh #TradeMarksRegistry The India-Japan partnership in intellectual property stems from the mid-20th century. The 1958 Agreement for Technical Co-operation helped transfer Japanese expertise in manufacturing and…

@cstross 100% off-topic, but when I was working in a pharma company back in my home country, people told me how when in 1990, the socialist economic system was switched to capitalism and the government became democratic, there were multiple processes that had to be re-engineered because they were a 100% copy of western patents, and later they had to prove that they don't use that old process anymore in court to be allowed to sell in western countries.

#IntellectualProperty #Copyright

If your business model is based on stealing other people's work and intellectual property, perhaps you should consider whether that business model shouldn't be explicitly banned, instead of changing the laws and legalizing the bad things to make a few tech bros who want to destroy our society even richer and more powerful.

#AI #KI #IP #llm #NYTimes #society #IntellectualProperty

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/nick-clegg-work-train-ai-l6xl5djb7

Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable

The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry

The Times