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Friday, 3 June 2022

IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy 2022

IPTango June 03, 2022 No comments:

The Institute for Information Law (IViR) will hold the Summer Course on International Copyright Law and Policy (ICL) from 4 to 8 July 2022 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The course is taught by renowned scholars and practitioners in the field of copyright law. Faculty is composed of Bernt Hugenholtz, Pamela Samuelson, Martin Senftleben, Séverine Dusollier, Daniel Gervais, Remy Chavannes, Sean Flynn, Paul Keller and João Quintais.

ICL is addressed to lawyers, academics, and other professionals. Participants should have some prior knowledge of the area. The programme includes the following topics:

International framework of protection and policy issues
Trade and investment agreements
Authors’ rights and remuneration
Copyright exceptions and limitations
Collective administration of rights in the digital era
Copyright, data and artificial intelligence
Intermediary liability and online copyright enforcement
Copyright and open information policy: international and EU updates
Policy exercise: draft treaty on copyright exceptions for research and access to knowledge

A boat tour through the canals of Amsterdam and a welcome dinner are also part of the programme!

Credit: the image is courtesy of IViR.

Encounter 18: IP And Videogames

IPTango January 16, 2022 No comments:

On 20 January 2022, FIDE (Legal and Business Research Foundation) and TIPSA (Transatlantic Intellectual Property Academy) will hold the Encounter 18: IP And Videogames.

The panellists are Andrea Rizzi (Queen Mary University London) and Alina Trapova (University of Nottingham). Carmelo Fontana (Google) will moderate the session.

The suggested readings and the report on the session will be available on the Global Digital Encounters (GDE) website as time goes by.

The Encounter is offered free of charge, but registration is required. Register here now!

If you missed previous Encounters or you want to watch them again, click here.

Credit: The image is courtesy of FIDE.

UPDATE: the recording of Encounter 18 is available here.

[Guest Post] Mercado Libre’s second Transparency Report

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo January 10, 2022 No comments:

IPTango is pleased to publish a guest post by Francisco Burguete, discussing the second Transparency Report published by Mercado Libre.

Mercado Libre (MELI) published its second Transparency Report, which covers data from January to June 2021 and includes a new section on user information requests (see here IPTango post on MELI’s first Transparency Report).

MELI emphasized that in the second report, “the scope of information available to users, authorities and civil society organizations has been expanded[, and for] the first time, information requests from authorities that are processed in compliance with the law are shared”.

Now, the Transparency Report comprises four main sections: user information requests (section one), product security and quality (section two), protection of IP rights (section three), and privacy matters (section four).

Product security and quality (Section 02)

This section contains information about removed content because of violations of MELI’s Terms and Conditions (T&C), such as offering prohibited items on the platform (e.g., items violating IP rights):

267,461,670 listings were placed on MELI’s websites as of 30 June 2021 (compared to 331,607,978 listings in the first report).
8,815,828 listings were detected and moderated by MELI due to violation of its Listing and Prohibited Items Policies (compared to 18,570,436 in the previous reporting period).
53,173 listings were reported by users (compared to 112,424 in the previous report).
Top jurisdictions concerning detected listings regarding the violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Jurisdictions	Detected Listings (1^st report, as of 31 December 2020)	Detected Listings (2^nd report, as of 30 June 2021)
Brazil	13,283,854	4,013,453
Mexico	2,282,461	2,311,539
Colombia	1,371,060	1,240,494
Argentina	792,168	253,219
Chile	609,413	581,119
Uruguay	98,915	150,475
Peru	96,569	174,077
Rest of Latin America	35,996	91,452

Only 4.5% of detected listings were reactivated (compared to 3.12% of reactivated ads).

It should be noted that the second report contains the top main content infringing categories broken down per country. Meanwhile, the categories were classified only per product in the first report.

Protection of IP rights (Section 03)

In this section, MELI presents its Brand Protection Program (BPP), which “enable IPR holders to report infringing listings [via a Notice & Take Down -N&TD- procedure]”. MELI emphasized that they have developed “self-mapping tools, based on artificial intelligence, to “learn” from the notices received and proactively remove listings” that infringe IPRs.

969,413 N&TDs were submitted (compared to 2,107,264 in the previous reporting period).
56,432 counter-notices were submitted (compared to 104,661 in the first report).
The number of Proactive Detections and Confirmed Complaints:

Date	Proactive Detections	Confirmed Complaints
2021-1	1,322,070	159,409
2021-2	907,771	170,128
2021-3	1,558,342	206,285
2021-4	733,493	132,261
2021-5	760,860	117,082
2021-6	668,668	125,850

The English version of the second Transparency Report can be reviewed here. The Spanish version is available here.

In the past, IPTango interviewed Juan Cichero (Head of Brand Protection at MELI), who conversed about BPP, the N&TD procedure, and more. Read here the interview.

Credit: Image by athree23 from Pixabay.

C-IP2‘s Virtual 2021 Annual Fall Conference: Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property

IPTango October 11, 2021 1 comment:

The Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) at George Mason University will hold the Virtual 2021 Annual Fall Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property from 13 to 14 October 2021.

The C-IP2‘s Virtual 2021 Annual Fall Conference will address “the current state of AI, what is coming soon, the current laws regarding the protection of AI and IP, and what is necessary to keep pace with technology”.

This year, the conference is structured around the forthcoming edited volume Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Professor Ryan Abbott, ed). Some of the authors will provide insights into their chapters at the event.

The program covers the following topics:

Panel 1: Artificial Intelligence – Challenges and Controversies
Panel 2: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property
Panel 3: Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences
Panel 4: Owning AI and Protecting AI Output
Panel 5: Trademark Law and Artificial Intelligence
Panel 6: Tech Policy in Artificial Intelligence

The keynote speakers are Grimes and Jaron Lanier, participating in a fireside chat moderated by Professor Sean M. O’Connor (C-IP2).

The speakers are from academia and industry, including Dr Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey), Professor Daniel J. Gervais (Vanderbilt Law School), Professor Sonia Katyal (Berkeley Center for Law and Technology), Professor Arti K. Rai (Duke University School of Law), Professor Daryl Lim (Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law), Dennis Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law), Dr Anke Moerland (Maastricht University), Dr Harbir Antil (CMAI), Charles Kim (USPTO), Ian Slotin (NBCUniversal), Corey Salsberg (Novartis), and Trevor Cook (WilmerHale). Review here the complete list of speakers and moderators.

The event will be held via Zoom (Eastern Daylight Time Zone). Register now here!

More information is available here.

The image is courtesy of C-IP2.

Update: The registration is closed. Panel recordings will be available here in due course.

Mercado Libre published its first Transparency Report

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo June 24, 2021 No comments:

On 19 May 2021, Mercado Libre (MELI) published its first Transparency Report. MELI stated that the report’s purpose is “to make our policies and actions transparent to safeguard the security and privacy of over 74 million users in our entire regional ecosystem”.

The Transparency Report consists of three main sections: product security and quality, protection of IP rights, and privacy matters. Read below some highlights of the report!

Section: Product security and quality

This section contains stats about removed content due to violations of MELI’s Terms and Conditions (T&C), which inter alia, prohibit certain items are sold on the platform (e.g., medicines, counterfeit items and other goods violating IP rights):

331,607,978 listings were placed on the 18 MELI's websites as of 31 December 2020.
18,570,436 listings were detected and moderated by MELI due to violation of its Listing and Prohibited Items Policies.
112,424 listings were reported by users.
65,180 listings were removed due to COVID-19 related matters.
Top 10 product categories regarding removed listings due to violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Product Category	Removed Listings
Courses	7,036,318
Medicine, health and/or beauty substances and products	1,386,243
E-books	1,337,862
Digital accounts & contents	1,278,420
Adult products	844,061
Personal databases	611,122
Decoders, antennas & signals	433,865
Personal documents	230,757
Tobacco & alike	215,817
Products & financial services	126,428

Top jurisdictions concerning detected listings due to violation of MELI’s Listing and Prohibited Items Policies:

Jurisdictions	Detected Listings
Brazil	13,283,854
Mexico	2,282,461
Colombia	1,371,060
Argentina	792,168
Chile	609,413
Uruguay	98,915
Peru	96,569
Rest of Latin America	35,996

In the report is highlighted that MELI uses machine learning technologies to detect infringing listings. In this sense, only 3.12% of the detected listings went back to the platform (reactivated ads).

Section: Protection of IP rights

This section contains stats regarding MELI’s Brand Protection Program (BPP), which “enable IPR holders to report infringing listings [via a Notice & Take Down -N&TD- procedure] in any of the 18 countries where Mercado Libre operates”.

2,107,264 N&TDs were submitted.
104,661 counter-notices were submitted.
The number of confirmed and not confirmed N&TDs:

Date	Confirmed N&TD	Not confirmed N&TD
2020-7	580,164	57,589
2020-8	396,225	46,558
2020-9	285,462	48,326
2020-10	333,046	26,757
2020-11	198,232	24,184
2020-12	92,568	23,035

Review the full Transparency Report here in English and here in Spanish.

Read here the interview IPTango held with Juan Cichero (Head of Brand Protection at MELI). Juan conversed about BPP, including the machine learning technologies used to detect infringing listings and the N&TD procedure.

Credit: Image is courtesy of Mercado Libre.

Some IPTango moves

* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

* Listed as one of the "Top 15 Blogs For An Intellectual Property (IP) Enthusiasts". Buzzfeed.com, January 2017.

* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Listed as one of the "Influential intellectual property blawgs". A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Groves, 2011.

* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.