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A trademark monopoly on generic words? - The MYHUNTBOOK case
4 March 2021An EUIPO Board of Appeal agreed with Facebook that the figurative mark MYHUNTBOOK would take unfair advantage of Facebook’s reputation. This was, primarily, due to the inclusion of “book” in the mark. Is such protection not too far-reaching? -
CMA's paper on algorithms & online platforms: comprehensive report on benefits and perils of AI regulation
26 February 2021The UK Competition and Market’s Authority recently published a report on the consequences of the online platforms’ use of algorithms (‘sequences of instructions to perform a computation or solve a problem’) for consumer protection and for competition. -
Let’s make 2021 the year of true ‘transparency’, a socially responsible behavior for data processing activities
25 February 202128 January was Data Protection Day, an annual celebration of privacy and data protection commemorating the date that Convention 108 of the Council of Europe was first opened for signature. This year, however, I would invite all data protection practitioners, academics, business leaders, educators, politicians, security experts and human rights and privacy activists to take a pledge to not simply pay homage to the Convention. -
The 'goldfish phone booth' copyright case in Japan
23 February 2021Nobuki Yamamoto, a Japanese contemporary artist, made an eye-catching work of ‘goldfish swimming in a phone booth’ (‘Work 1’) by December 2000 at the latest. In October 2011, a student organisation called ‘Goldfish Club’ at Kyoto University of Art and Design produced Work 2 and exhibited it for a week in the same month in the Osaka Nakanoshima Park.
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