Its new by-law brought in a penalty system with fines of up to €100 for minor infringements, up to €200 for serious infringements and up to €500 for very serious infringements.
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"While none of these infringements ultimately impacted the outcome of our ratings, Fitch subsequently examined and further enhanced its processes to better avoid such infringements," Fitch said in a statement.
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Sometimes reading about politics, human rights infringements, war zones, etc.
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She received a yellow card for two separate minor infringements.
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His other co-founders were all found guilty of copyright infringements.
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Huawei filed a legal action against Verizon for alleged patent infringements.
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The Court applied what's called strict scrutiny to free exercise infringements.
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Thursday's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction against further infringements.
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In a similar vein, how do we recognize AI infringements on IP?
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The legacy of these infringements on reproductive rights is still visible today.
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"Legal proceedings initiated by me versus infringements are very likely in due time."
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And policing copyright infringements is a cinch compared with other forms of content.
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But according to Pornhub, this new AI effort isn't about preventing DMCA infringements.
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Atkinson punished niggling infringements but missed truly dangerous fouls that can harm a career.
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The referee dished out eight yellow cards, invariably for mistimed, rather than malicious, infringements.
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Although the case continued over patent infringements, the two reached a settlement in December.
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Even minor infringements, such as perusing smuggled religious pamphlets, can result in severe punishment.
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He even notes how aggressive YouTube is in flagging potential copyright infringements with music.
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Since January, the Gulf states have traded accusations over infringements of their respective airspace.
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The CNIL fined Google 50 million euros last year for alleged infringements of GDPR.
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It seeks a halt to any infringements, triple and punitive damages and other remedies.
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"There are abuses over copyright infringements and intellectual property and the like," Cameron said.
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The changes would make tech companies responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users.
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She suspended another five for environmental infringements and also canceled 75 contracts for undeveloped mines.
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Open, running play can be stopped and wound back for any number of arcane infringements.
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Others named on Monday as 2008 positives included three already banned for other doping infringements.
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China already uses similar technology, primarily with the purpose of shaming its citizens for minor infringements.
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Authorities around the world have taken a similarly tough line against rate-rigging and other infringements.
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Those convicted of infringements face prison terms of up to a year, and an unspecified fine.
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"We need a very good legal basis, but I definitely want to start infringements," she said.
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The lawsuit seeks a halt to any infringements, plus damages as high as $150,000 per infringement.
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As a result, infringements regularly go unchallenged and creators are often disenfranchised by the copyright system.
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Just since 2012, the music recording industry has sent takedown notices for over 17 million infringements.
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Any such project comes with the risk that temporary infringements on our privacy will become permanent.
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Any such project comes with the risk that temporary infringements on our privacy will become permanent.
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The fighters have carried out public executions, lashings and violent punishments for infringements of their rule.
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However, the government may still require providers to end or hinder any legal infringements by users.
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As a result, infringements regularly go unchallenged and many creators feel disenfranchised by the copyright system.
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In recent years, as infringements on the rights of Latinos have increased, activist groups have proliferated.
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Mere incidental burdens on one's religious practice are inevitable and cannot be considered infringements on religious liberty.
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These infringements include the Pope's stance on abortion and "sacred condemnation" of contraception, the Femen statement said.
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Politicians fear that minor infringements of such rules will be used as an excuse for further disqualifications.
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Nintendo said in January that it filed a lawsuit against Colopl last December regarding infringements of patents.
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The policing of Muslim women could only be the beginning of human rights infringements on every citizen.
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Simply saying that privacy infringements seem "creepy" or "scary" does not justify regulating all of these corporations.
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And efforts to strengthen globalized public efforts are attacked by nationalists and populists as infringements on sovereignty.
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It is seeking damages, including for breach of contract, and to halt any infringements by Brooks Brothers.
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Those infringements were related to transparency and a lack of valid consent, rather than a data breach.
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This was possible because patents can be filed against infringements dating back 6 years, so even though the patent was expired, Wetro Lan was able to sue these companies for infringements from 2009-2012, thereby earning them the EFF's illustrious Stupid Patent of the Month award for June.
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Frans Timmermans is a multilingual Dutch vice-president of the commission who has tackled rule-of-law infringements.
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Although the copyright infringements were often legitimate, Hansmeier and Steele reportedly concealed their involvement in the uploading process.
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While my predecessor did not deal with such infringements on the sovereignty of the American people, I will.
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Together, these constitute major infringements on the freedom of expression and the opposition's ability to communicate with voters.
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Hu Zejun, head of the National Audit Office, announced the infringements while briefing lawmakers on Saturday, Xinhua said.
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The bank also agreed to pay 8.5 million euros for "administrative infringements in its previous cross-border business".
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Furie's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a permanent injunction against any further copyright infringements regarding his beleaguered creation.
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Luxottica, the world's largest eyewear company, is seeking an injunction against infringements, triple and punitive damages, and other remedies.
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A lawsuit has since been filed by the investors alleging labor rights infringements on the part of Verboten's management.
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A hashtag called #HandsOffSomalia has become popular among Somalis prickly about what they see as infringements of their sovereignty.
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As with all handball infringements, it's essentially subjective, and the referee must decide in the blink of an eye.
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That lawsuit said the alleged infringements cause "irreparable injury" to the academy's goodwill and reputation, and violate Army policies.
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Suspensions can be tied to slow delivery times, alleged rights infringements or selling potentially unsafe products or expired items.
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After writing a guide on finding images and avoiding copyright infringements, Bastian began to crowdsource help for her project.
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The proposition "Reimplementations of APIs are infringements" creates a recursive rabbit hole of liability that spans across the industry.
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Indeed, Warsaw may well double down and use "foreign interference" as an excuse for further infringements on civil liberty.
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The organization's dispute resolution body will hear a complaint in Geneva today about Chinese infringements of intellectual property rights.
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Responding to the coronavirus pandemic requires infringements on civil liberties that citizens of democratic states would never otherwise tolerate.
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The group cites economic advantages, religious liberty and infringements on residents Second Amendment rights as reasons behind their push.
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That Amendment was enacted specifically to give Congress the power to act against state infringements of national civil rights.
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Article 13, which makes platforms liable for copyright infringements committed by their users — was rejected by just five votes. 5.
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State attorneys-general are increasingly agitating to take action against big tech firms over privacy infringements and anti-competitive behaviour.
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To protect these rights better, the State Council, or cabinet, said the government would look into punitive fines for infringements.
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The two bodies' job is to police infringements of a well-established and mature body of law through the courts.
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"If any report on infringements is made, we can only take note and tell the state to act," he added.
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"I can't say what actions they may take in the future in respect of the underlying copyright infringements," he added.
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"We will continue to vigorously protect our rights and will continue to take action in case of infringements," she said.
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Saudi aircraft have not been involved in the claims by Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain about potentially dangerous airspace infringements.
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Digital companies capable of editing out nudity and copyright infringements should be required to do the same for terrorists' threats.
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But the investigators' final report, released last fall, found no serious infringements of Hungarian law, and no charges were leveled.
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Apple won a $1 billion judgment off Samsung back in 2012 for several patent infringements having to do with the iPhone.
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Antetokounmpo is seeking at least $2 million of damages, including unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, and an injunction against further infringements.
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Nikola Motor, which makes hydrogen-powered semi trucks, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against electric automaker Tesla alleging design patent infringements.
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She suspended another five for environmental infringements and also canceled 75 contracts for undeveloped mines, actions she said were above board.
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Then, just a week prior to Fitbit's IPO in late May 2015, Jawbone filled another suit against Fitbit regarding patent infringements.
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The U.N. panel of experts, which produced the 100-page draft report, was created to investigate reported infringements of those sanctions.
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Yet while efforts to improve traffic-safety are applauded, any efforts to reduce the gun carnage are reviled as rights infringements.
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Zurich-based Credit Suisse also said it would pay Italy 8.5 million euros for administrative infringements in its previous cross-border business.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a notice concerning the proposed fine citing infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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Those sorts of human-rights infringements take place, where women have to follow what they are told to do with their bodies.
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Meanwhile, online retailers have "the necessary information and technical capabilities to efficiently and proactively detect, remove and prevent repeated infringements," Malwani added.
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It could also mean more pressure on YouTube, which they have criticized for being too lax about copyright infringements, as Bloomberg notes.
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Actual lockdowns inhibiting personal rights to come and go are patently unconstitutional given significant infringements of rights for specious public health objectives.
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The courts should also stop ignoring and give effect to the DMCA provision that requires service providers to act to block infringements.
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"Algorithms cannot distinguish between actual copyright infringements and the perfectly legal re-use of content for purposes such as parody," she said.
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He red-carded Leicester's defender Danny Simpson after halftime for two deliberate, but not harmful infringements, the second a tug at an arm.
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The group dished out harsh punishments for minor infringements such as smoking, seized the property of minorities, and destroyed ancient sites and monuments.
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But lesser infringements are marked as "visible to self", which leaves the content up but limits its distribution through TikTok's algorithmically-curated feed.
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But while those patent infringements still stand, the amount of money Samsung owes Apple has steadily tapered from that original 10-figure judgment.
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Historic crimes were once ignored, but the law now works retroactively, counting ancient infringements committed overseas as well as recent ones in Australia.
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Under Giuliani, task forces of police officers were assembled to go from club to club looking for cabaret law infringements and conducting raids.
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The British regulator has the power to fine a broadcaster for breaching rules, and in the most severe infringements can revoke a licence.
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Sponsorship accounts for a fifth of revenues for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which protects that income by monitoring closely for any infringements.
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Earlier Monday Nikon announced it was filing suit against ASML and partner Carl Zeiss in the Netherlands, Germany and Japan for alleged patent infringements.
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In the complaint, Facebook claims that the infringements have "caused and will continue to cause damage" to the company's Messenger and WhatsApp messaging apps.
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Some of the items covered in the proposed target list bear little relationship to the sectors in which such intellectual property infringements take place.
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"The circumstances posed by the Novel Coronavirus ("COVID-19") outbreak are noteworthy, but do not excuse unlawful government infringements upon freedom," the suit says.
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The Norwegian Consumer Council said it found "serious privacy infringements" in its analysis of how shadowy online ad companies track and profile smartphone users.
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It has a slew of technically demanding requirements, and threatens fines of up to 4 percent of a company's annual revenue for serious infringements.
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Let the president know that the press will not tolerate infringements on its legitimate and constitutional right to report the news to its readers.
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When Segway met Ninebot In 2014, Segway convinced the US International Trade Commission to investigate infringements of Segway's patents for its self-balancing technology.
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The European Parliament voted Tuesday to approve fiercely contested changes that make platforms such as YouTube responsible for copyright infringements committed by their users.
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But it is Google's sole responsibility to make sure that it changes its conduct in a way that brings the infringements to an effective end.
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Alibaba's lawsuit sought a halt to further alleged infringements, plus compensatory, punitive and triple damages for alleged violations of federal and New York state law.
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Commission members would also be charged with accounting for any constitutional infringements and abuses of power committed by ICE agents and officials during its existence.
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In the future, Artificial Intelligence will help identify infringements quickly and on a massive scale, making it easier to start legal actions as a result.
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The Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbors have frequently complained about territorial infringements by Russian warplanes and submarines, grievances that Russia has dismissed as Western propaganda.
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Eastman believed that the AUAM's role in wartime was to fight these infringements on democratic rights, not simply to look ahead to shaping postwar policy.
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Companies which are not aware of trade mark infringements cannot be held responsible for storing counterfeit products for third party sellers, Campos Sanchez-Bordona said.
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The alleged infringements included failure to comply with the procedures and limits established by law in the issuance of guarantees by the state, it said.
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The charges included infringements to FIFA's rules on general conduct, duty of disclosure and reporting, conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts, bribery and corruption.
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The lawsuit seeks a halt to further infringements, plus either triple damages, the disgorgement of illegal profit, or up to $2 million for each infringed trademark.
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Peloton also announced Tuesday that it settled legal disputes with Flywheel, a competitor that also produces stationary bikes with training programs, over alleged technology patent infringements.
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Huawei filed lawsuits against Samsung in May in courts in China and the United States - the first by it against Samsung - claiming infringements of smartphone patents.
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A second direction gives CBP far broader powers to crack down on counterfeit and pirated goods and other copyright infringements that cost American companies billions more.
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Infringements may include having a boyfriend, rejecting a forced marriage, interfaith relationships, seeking a divorce and behaving or dressing in a way that is considered inappropriate.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish mobile infrastructure firm Ericsson is suing French-Chinese smartphone maker Wiko in two German regional courts over patent infringements, it said on Thursday.
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He said he has granted no such rights since 2015 and that the charity's subsequent infringements falsely suggest that he, Dotti or their mother endorsed them.
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Faced with global terrorism threats, the American people and courts have largely accepted infringements like warrantless bag searches in mass transit systems as a necessary evil.
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Giant corporations like Google, Apple and Samsung, who have been forced repeatedly to acknowledge their patent infringements on smaller innovators, are the ones behind this push.
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The North, which is a member state of the United Nations, has rejected the resolutions as infringements of its right to self defense and space exploration.
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There's apparently even the chance the court could call for a complete retrial, given that Apple's apparent patent infringements have been reduced from four to two.
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The statement added that Beijing plans to establish a system of fines for infringements, and it will step up law enforcement and judicial protection, Xinhua reported.
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"The outcome might be commitments, an application for a fine or an application for termination of infringements to the cartel court," Director General Theodor Thanner said.
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The most heated argument was over Article 13 of the legislation, which makes content sharing platforms like YouTube liable for copyright infringements committed by their users.
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Other platforms need to allow oversight by their users and civil society to ensure an absence of bias (the besetting sin of AI) and privacy infringements.
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The main sticking point is whether content sharing platforms like YouTube, which is owned by Google, should be liable for copyright infringements committed by their users.
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Reuters reported before market open that the consumer electronics maker had sued Chinese technology company Huawei Technologies for patent infringements, with filings in multiple courts in China.
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Qualcomm and Apple had spent the better part of more than two years engaged in a legal skirmish over outsized royalty payments, patent infringements and IP theft.
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As reported by Bloomberg, Apple sought $1 billion in the retrial, an amount it was awarded back in 2012 over several patent infringements relating to the iPhone.
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In a statement marking that anniversary, the US State Department issued a statement saying the US was "concerned about any infringements on civil liberties" in Hong Kong.
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"The problem the EU Parliament is faced with is how to create a space online that protects and protects people like us from copyright infringements," LaPorte said.
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Braunschweig fined VW for regulatory infringements, criticizing organizational deficiencies that failed to prevent unauthorized software from being installed in 10.7 million VW cars between 2007 and 2015.
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"Plaintiff will suffer immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage" unless the infringements are stopped, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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For example, a small website owner in Denmark wouldn't have had the legal resources to challenge a US government ban on his site for alleged copyright infringements.
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Following what the company described as years of back-and-forth, Sonos has filed suit against Google for alleged patent infringements related to the company's smart speakers.
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While these financial losses may seem modest, all too often such sums represent a significant and devastating loss of income, especially since many creators experience multiple infringements.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday approved an overhaul of the bloc's copyright laws that makes platforms like Google's (GOOGL) YouTube responsible for infringements committed by their users.
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Defenders of the law see them as necessary to protect an ally from hostile activists, while critics argue that the laws are unconstitutional infringements on free speech.
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Most of them don't even bother challenging the infringements with lawsuits, due to the weak intellectual property protections in the country, and those that do almost never prevail.
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The lawsuit seeks to halt any infringements, recoup triple damages and alleged illegal profits from wine sales, and have wine bearing the Tenuta di Ferragamo name thrown out.
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But of course there is no software that could automatically detect copyright infringements in sheet music because it's not simply somebody copying the sheet music one on one.
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Any involvement with the system would be voluntary, because even though this new system would help creators receive retribution for infringements, it wouldn't be a trial by jury.
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Huawei says the alleged infringements relate to 12 patents in areas from computer networking to video communications, claiming that Verizon has "greatly profited" from the use of these.
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Co-founder and CEO Ijad Madisch said the agreement would streamline the process for notifying ResearchGate of copyright infringements and ensuring that offending material is taken down quickly.
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Not every GDPR infraction warrants the steepest fines, which are reserved for "the most serious infringements," but even relatively smaller fines could be potentially catastrophic for smaller companies.
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They said Peloton's infringements cover songs by a who's who of the music industry, such as the unauthorized use of Rihanna's "Umbrella" in at least 55 workout videos.
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It aims to give EU citizens more rights over their online information and threatens fines of up to 20073 percent of a company's annual revenue for serious infringements.
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But I do not want to walk through new metal detectors, or deal with other infringements upon my civil liberties as a knee-jerk reaction to this event.
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Dickerson said he reacquired the patent this year, 17 years after assigning his rights to Georgia Tech, which had made no effort over the years to stop infringements.
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The Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC) said in a statement the fine was "for infringements of regulatory requirements regarding the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing".
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Already there are AI techniques that we believe can be used to identify content such as this video, in the same way that copyright infringements can be identified.
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One of the most grievous infringements of the PRO Act is the erosion of privacy for individuals – including the ones who choose not to participate in a union.
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"The new collective action regime was introduced by the Consumer Rights Act to overcome the difficulty for consumers seeking to recover losses from competition law infringements," he said.
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Tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Friday it sued smartphone rival Huawei Technologies for patent infringements through multiple courts in China, escalating a legal conflict between the two companies.
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A United Nations panel which investigates North Korean sanctions infringements said in a report in February there was an "absence of boundaries" between Air Koryo and the air force.
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The authorities imposed fines of 72 million yuan for 181 infringements relating to water and other areas, the news agency quoted the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau as saying.
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Companies which fail to check for infringements on human rights in their business and their suppliers are putting themselves at legal and reputational risk, according to a new report.
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Chinese firms can negotiate with each other over the terms of technology-licensing agreements, but foreign licensees must bear all the risk of others suing for intellectual-property infringements.
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"Uber executives never ceased in their infringements and have continued to completely ignore judicial orders, continuing the illegal activity," said a statement posted on the Buenos Aires prosecutors' website.
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Snowden, 32, whose supporters say he boldly exposed government infringements of privacy, fled the United States in May 2013 and now lives in Russia where he was granted asylum.
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The maximum fine that organizations can be hit with for the most serious infringements of the regulation is 4% of their global annual turnover (or €20M, whichever is greater).
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Ross said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that U.S. trade authorities were investigating whether there is a case for taking action over China's infringements of intellectual property.
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Byman notes that Bush got away with a lot of his post-9/11 infringements on civil liberties because, generally speaking, the public trusted him to handle the crisis.
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With the VAR able to enforce even minor infringements, the rule is likely to lead to more controversy as it starts being implemented across the board from next season.
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The French president has also threatened to push for EU sanctions against the Polish government on issues such as perceived infringements to the rule of law, which has infuriated Warsaw.
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Final warnings could also be issued to Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Portugal in the coming months if they don't respond satisfactorily to notice of infringements.
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The women who have come forward have had infringements on their privacy, attacks on their reputation, and one even had to leave the country for fear for her own safety.
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The fund has already excluded dozens of companies for environmental reasons, nuclear arms production and other infringements of its policies, but it has yet to identify candidates in all categories.
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"Failure to correct the infringements within a given timeframe ... could result in public naming of both the brand name and supplier," he said in a report on the LME's strategy.
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Even that would be a case of uncertain outcome, since it's difficult to say if or when they know about infringements before a copyright holder brings it to their attention.
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But even the very best footballers miss a meaningful share of penalties, which are awarded for infringements within the opposition box or used to decide tied matches in knockout competitions.
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Then, acting as Prenda Law, they'd pressure their marks to settle the honeypot infringements out of court, or risk having their names publicly associated with porn (and the piracy thereof).
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Its experience suggests Google's initial 'remedy' — far from delivering an "effective end" to the competitive infringements the Commission found — is actively steering OEMs away from search alternatives and rival companies.
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"This would be only in case of clear infringements and would take time after the government has been in place and has done something obviously against E.U. principles," he said.
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The war metaphor also suggests a willingness of the populace to allow some infringements of hard won civil liberties in extreme circumstances -- as is happening with self-isolating right now.
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"You see how a terrorist operates," he added, appearing to suggest that young people were protesting because they'd been radicalized, rather than being angry about recent infringements on their freedom.
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China's markets regulator said on Wednesday it has asked Shanghai regulators to investigate online group discounter Pinduoduo regarding media reports about counterfeit goods and intellectual property infringements on the platform.
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For the most serious of infringements, like using data without proper consent, fines can reach up to 4 percent of a company's annual income, or €20 million, whichever is higher.
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Patent disputes, crafty marketing teams and feuds amongst inventors have led to a point where identical technologies go by different trademarks and are limited in their applications because of potential infringements.
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"There have been indications that the way the device is used may lead to widespread infringements on citizen privacy and Charter rights," reads part of the filing to the privacy commissioner.
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"The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the federal government from imposing ANY infringements upon our gun rights," Erich Pratt, GOA's executive director, said after the Las Vegas shooting.
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Bitkom, an association which represents digital companies, said the government should build up specialist teams to monitor online content for potential infringements, rather than expect social networks to do it themselves.
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Despite the companies' assurances over their commitment to privacy, it is difficult not to see these numerous privacy infringements as part of the normal functioning of their business, rather than aberrations.
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In an exhaustive inventory of alleged infringements, the suit included side-by-side photos comparing space vessels, logos, terminology, costumes and other elements from the original series with the 2014 film.
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Fed officials have strongly opposed any increase in congressional oversight, describing such measures as infringements on the Fed's operational independence that might interfere with the central bank's ability to promote growth.
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They believe that even minor laws designed to make it harder to get firearms, or even to figure out what works to stop gun violence, are unacceptable infringements on individual freedom.
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Nor will the denial of Palestinian equality be tolerated by the growing movement of Americans of color challenging police violence, fighting for immigration rights or challenging infringements on Native American rights.
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In 217, the New York Daily News reported that the hospital was cited in inspections as having a litany of infractions, ranging from infants being left unattended in rooms to privacy infringements.
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The inquiry, which includes a public consultation starting early next year, will result in non-binding recommendations but may become the basis of a formal anti-trust investigation if infringements are observed.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will introduce a system of punitive damages for intellectual property (IP) infringements in its effort to strengthen protection of such rights, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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In 2014 he instructed his officers to stop making arrests over relatively minor infringements, such as schoolyard fights or small amounts of cannabis possession, which accounted for around 60% of the total.
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In this case, ZTE's infringements are so major — trade violations and national security concerns — that it is hard to envisage the company getting a pass, even with support from the White House.
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It said it has proactively removed more than 380 million infringing product listings from August 2015 through August 2016 and closed about 953,000 stores on its Taobao platform for intellectual property infringements.
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The board of appeal on Wednesday upheld ESMA's decision that the banks had issued illicit credit ratings but found the infringements were not committed negligently and therefore decided to revoke the fines.
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"We don't want discussions in Geneva to become a discussion about infringements or not of the ceasefire, we want them to actually address the core of everything," he said in an interview.
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Everyone I know is gearing up to battle infringements on LGBT, people of color, women, disabled, the working-class people's rights, intensified surveillance, increased brutality, and the rescinding of social safety nets.
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Asked whether Poland could be at risk of losing EU funding because of its dispute with the EU over perceived infringements on the legal system, Morawiecki was confident that it would not.
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One controversial rule would make platforms like Google's (GOOGL) YouTube liable for copyright infringements committed by users unless the they can show "best efforts" were made to get permission from copyright holders.
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The move follows updates to EU copyright and audiovisual media laws that require platforms like YouTube and Amazon to more actively monitor for violations, including online copyright infringements and inappropriate ad placements.
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The measures will include amending China's IP laws to increase the cost for infringements, boosting the efficiency of IP approvals, and providing lower-cost and more convenient IP protection channels, Shen said.
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While international sanctions on Iran were eased last year, U.S. measures remain and penalties for any infringements can be devastating - as a $20173 billion fine on French bank BNP Paribas last year attests.
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Non-compliance equates to massive fines: For the most serious infringements — which include exploiting user data without the proper consent — it's up to 4 percent of a company's annual income, or €20 million.
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Wade was upheld, abortion opponents demonstrated that state laws restricting access can be just as effective as an outright ban — so long as the Supreme Court permits infringements on the right to choose.
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New polling by IPSOS on the government's dispute with the EU over its rule-of-law infringements suggests that over half of Poles (and one in five PiS voters) back Brussels over Warsaw.
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Another strand of the proposition feeds back asset-based analytics to customers — offering "actionable intelligence data on assets, type of infringements, regions, sellers etc, so it can be used to benefit the business".
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But with its expansion, the marketplace has been plagued by counterfeits and infringements, and bad actors have been able to manipulate the site with fake reviews and other tactics that hurt legitimate sellers.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Zimbabwe's former attorney general and others against an EU-wide travel ban and asset freeze imposed for human rights infringements.
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"Despite the companies' assurances over their commitment to privacy, it is difficult not to see these numerous privacy infringements as part of the normal functioning of their business, rather than aberrations," it continues.
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But if we have learned anything from the accumulation of data breaches and disturbing revelations about privacy infringements, it's that we will not reach the next stage of digital growth without greater trust.
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And as more creators become owners and operators of small businesses, copyright infringement has continued to take a debilitating toll on those who must police infringements while simultaneously seeking and fulfilling photographic assignments.
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"Only GSUSA has the right to use the Girl Scouts and Scouts trademarks with leadership development services for girls," and the Boy Scouts infringements are "new and uniquely damaging to GSUSA," the complaint said.
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If the UK does implement fines similar to the ones Germany has targeting hate speech, smaller companies would theoretically be hurt more by infringements because they don't have the same resources for content moderation.
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So, in other words, to shift from reviewing reported content after it has been published to proactively scanning at the point of upload to try to prevent copyright infringements happening in the first place.
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The legacy of the Stasi, the secret police force that set up one of the most invasive mass-surveillance regimes ever in Communist East Germany, has made the country's legislators vigilant against such infringements.
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Adding to the protectionist fears, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, also at the Davos summit, said U.S. trade authorities are investigating whether there is a case for taking action over China's infringements of intellectual property.
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But SoundCloud has served me a list chock-full of copyright infringements — the very kind it rails against while continuing to fumble over an inability to deal with user-uploaded and gray area content.
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It is a measure of the central nature of consents that infringements of the basic principles for processing personal data, including the conditions for consent, are subject to the highest tier of administrative fines.
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The bill encouraged companies to voluntarily share information about malicious cyber encounters by offering them immunity from related lawsuits, so they they could share users' data without worrying about getting sued for privacy infringements.
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Blockchains of the future will require private state channels to scale, in a similar way to how the public court system only deals with contract infringements (edge cases) and not every single contract written.
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As Jacobs alluded to in a stirring and strongly worded statement to the court, it's part of a clear escalation in incidents of blatant infringements on press freedom and physical altercations involving the media.
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China said earlier this month it would introduce a system of punitive damages for IP infringements in a bid to strengthen IP enforcement for foreign firms and make sure offenders "pay a big price".
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World Briefing Vietnam jailed a well-known political blogger and his assistant on Wednesday for posts that a Hanoi court said were abuses of their freedom and infringements upon state interests, their lawyer said.
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And there is obviously a difference between racism (as displayed by Dolce, Gucci — in their blackface turtleneck — and Prada) and appropriation, though they tend to be conflated under the category of Gross Fashion Infringements.
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She wove a spellbinding web of documents, letters, sculptures, and near-copyright infringements for the project, which, when presented in Mexico City, were installed across the street from the architect's home and personal archive.
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JetBlue also said Walmart intended further infringements by using other "Jet+color" names such as Jetgold and Jetsilver, and moving closer to JetBlue's core business by offering travel services, including dining and entertainment recommendations.
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JetBlue also said Jetblack was likely to cause "significant consumer confusion" as Walmart expands the service, and warned that Walmart intends further infringements by using additional "Jet+color" names such as Jetgold and Jetsilver.
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If startups and small businesses must compete in a world where a patent troll can seek "total profit" damages for infringements associated with a single spurious design patent, there may be "no profit" remaining.
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The global chipmaker Qualcomm said in a statement Monday that it had won a preliminary order from a Chinese court that would prevent Apple from selling several iPhone models in China due to patent infringements.
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Qualcomm attempted (with some success) to get iPhones banned in Apple's key markets over patent infringements, and it even claimed that Apple had stolen its proprietary technology and given it to its main competitor, Intel.
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An amendment that could have thrown out the most controversial component of the copyright reform — aka Article 211, which makes platforms liable for copyright infringements committed by their users — was rejected by just five votes.
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Fox is the latest in a growing number of people who have challenged Duterte and found themselves investigated, detained, humiliated, and sanctioned for offences that his opponents say usually amount to technicalities or minor infringements.
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A new general data protection directive was also agreed by European politicians at the back end of last year which will bring in stricter penalties for privacy infringements when it comes into force in 2018.
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It says it identified two serious infringements and one very serious infringement of data protection law — with the total sanction breaking down to €300,000 for each of the first breaches and €600,000 for the second.
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"We want all national competition authorities to be able to take decisions fully independently and have effective tools at their disposal to stop and sanction infringements," European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
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A patent case that began back in 2011 has reached a conclusion, with Samsung ordered to pay about $539 million to Apple over infringements of the latter's patents in devices that are now long gone.
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The sight of sashaying hips moving at speed is funny, but the real drama is in the judgement calls made by trained observers to pluck competitors out of the race mid-stride for their infringements.
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It also applies its learning tech to derive insights from clients' enforcement history — suggesting new detection rules and validation opportunities, which it claims decreases the amount of time of analysts need to spend identifying infringements.
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Asked about the issue, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang reiterated that any infringements of U.N. resolutions on North Korea would be dealt with according to Chinese law, and that China opposed "long-armed jurisdiction".
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Shenzhen resident Yang Guo said the visible benefits CCTV had brought to his city – which ranked in second place – included civil behaviour from drivers who risked fines if any traffic infringements were caught on camera.
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If being Canadian means having a fundamental respect to life, liberty, and security for all individuals, then all citizens are responsible for taking action against human rights infringements that we have the power to prevent.
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"The amount decided, and the publicity of the fine, are justified by the severity of the infringements observed regarding the essential principles of the GDPR: transparency, information and consent," the CNIL said in a statement.
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Blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy were imprisoned for five and three years respectively for posts that a Hanoi court said were abuses of their freedom and infringements upon state interests.
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"On March 9, 2017, the European Commission notified us that they were opening a proceeding to evaluate possible infringements by the company in their submissions regarding the LM Wind Power transaction," GE said in a statement.
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Quanzhou Intermediate People's Court spokesman Wang Zhiwei told Reuters the court accepted the case recently but did not provide further details on what infringements Huawei is claiming in the lawsuit and when the suit was filed.
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In April, China sent 5,600 inspectors on a year-long campaign to enforce environmental standards in 28 northern cities, in a move aimed at meeting the region's air pollution targets and punish infringements of the rules.
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In exhibitions at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen in Switzerland, Mexico City's LABOR gallery, and soon at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Magid weaves a spellbinding web of documents, letters, sculptures, and near-copyright infringements.
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Dixon said "the fine will come where there are infringements" but added it is also key for tech companies that breach the law to change their behavior and set a precedent for other companies going forward.
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Swain said U.S. copyright law imposed a "bright-line" rule precluding recovery of statutory damages when the first of a series of infringements occurred before the works in question are registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
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"When the same defendant infringes on the same protected work in the same manner as it did prior to the work's registration, the postregistration infringement constitutes the continuation of a series of ongoing infringements," she wrote.
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"We are introducing harmonisation of penalties that should be imposed in cases of cross-border infringements," Jourova told the conference, with new legislation expected to be passed by the bloc's parliament in the spring of 2019.
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The executive expects to win cases, known as infringements, to block new Hungarian laws aimed at curbing funding from abroad, notably by Hungarian-American financier George Soros, of a university and of liberal non-government organisations.
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The State Department also issued a statement marking the 20th anniversary of the transfer of Hong Kong from the UK to China, saying the US was "concerned about any infringements on civil liberties" in Hong Kong.
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Quanzhou intermediate people's court spokesman Wang Zhiwei told Reuters the court accepted the case recently but did not provide further details, including what infringements Huawei is claiming in the lawsuit and when the suit was filed.
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The protection of intellectual property rights in China has been a long-standing bone of contention for foreign firms, with fresh complaints from the United States about patent infringements now threatening to trigger a trade war.
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The Commission has fined Microsoft more than 2.2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) over the past decade for various infringements, one of them being the tying of some products to its Windows operating system to stifle competition.
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The startup, which was founded by a lawyer, Josep Coll, back in 2011, has built tech that continuously crawls known piracy hotspots and counterfeit goods outlets online on behalf of its clients to identify possible infringements.
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Such abuses take the form of potential infringements upon individual rights — the rights, for example, of people like Nassar who find themselves up against the full force of a government poised to take his freedoms away.
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While Bolton has said that editorials he has written do not necessarily represent the policies he will pursue in office, since joining the administration, he has routinely criticized what he sees as infringements on US sovereignty.
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SEOUL, July 22 (Reuters) - Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it sued smartphone rival Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for patent infringements through multiple courts in China, escalating a legal conflict between the two companies.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said Moody's German and UK branches "negligently committed two infringements of the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation regarding their public announcement of certain ratings," ESMA said in a statement on Thursday.
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said Moody's German and UK units "negligently committed two infringements of the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation regarding their public announcement of certain ratings," ESMA said in a statement on Thursday.
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In U.S. Federal district court for district of delaware * Symantec Corp - Symantec noted that it is continuing to investigate matter and will file further claims if additional infringements are identified Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Guidance for industrial free cash flow of more than 1.5 billion euros was also down from last year's outcome, due to higher capital spending, fines and other costs related to its U.S. settlement for diesel emissions infringements.
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Under the so-called Second Amendment sanctuary movement, county sheriffs in at least four states have vowed to refuse to enforce laws that they consider to be infringements on the U.S. constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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Years in the planning, the new law would set up patent courts in EU member states that would allow patentholders to seek redress for any infringements in their own countries, even if they occurred in another EU country.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross hinted at other measures against China too on Wednesday, saying at the annual Davos meeting that Washington was investigating whether there was a case for taking action over China's infringements of intellectual property.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Commission will lodge complaints with the World Trade Organisation against the United States over metals tariffs and against China over infringements of European firms' patent rights, its chief, Jean-Claude Juncker told German media.
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The administration will further strengthen protection of intellectual property by optimizing the mechanisms governing intellectual property, raising the costs for IP infringements, and treating all market entities as equals in terms of IP protection, Xinhua reported citing Gan.
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And while their financial losses may seem modest, very often they represent a significant and devastating loss of income, especially since many creators experience multiple infringements over the course of a week, a month, a year, a lifetime.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, hinted at action against China, saying U.S. trade authorities were investigating whether there is a case for taking action over China's infringements of intellectual property.
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But officials say the king's decision to end the arrangement reflected his anger at Israel's rejection of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and at its perceived infringements of one of Islam's holiest sites in Jerusalem.
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Firms found to have made the most serious infringements of European law can be fined as much as 20 million euros, or about $22 million, or 4 percent of the previous year's worldwide annual revenue, whichever is higher.
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Indigenous communities in the American South are often attacked from both sides — facing questions of legitimacy from Indigenous peoples in other parts of the country, all the while pushing back against typical settler colonial infringements upon their sovereignty.
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But you can certainly move in authoritarian directions because of small shocks even if you don't move to full-scale authoritarianism: the internment of Japanese-Americans, past infringements on free speech where national security has been threatened, etc.
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The recommendation, which is non-binding but could be taken into account by European courts, sets guidelines on how companies should remove illegal content generally — from copyright infringements to hate speech — and advises a quicker reaction to extremist material.
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Press releases from the company come with a disclaimer that the "Everyone Wins" nominee gift bags are not affiliated with the Oscars, but in 2016 Distinctive Assets was subject to a law suit from the Academy, citing trademark infringements.
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In a sign of unease with the DNC, the campaigns will utilize a neutral boiler room helmed by Boston lawyer Quentin Palfrey, a former Obama adviser, to share reports of voter rights infringements from legal observers across the state.
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IF THERE IS a city in the world where the persecution of all religions and beliefs is studied exhaustively, it is Washington, DC. In accordance with American law, two agencies are perpetually watching for infringements and calling out violators.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese appeal court has ruled against U.S. sportswear firm New Balance for trademark infringements and ordered it to pay five million yuan ($756,945) in compensation to a Chinese company, an amount far lower than previously ruled.
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The Commission did not prescribe specific remedies for the anticompetitive behaviours it pegged to Android — saying it's "Google's sole responsibility to make sure that it changes its conduct in a way that brings the infringements to an effective end".
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The increasing use of drones for commercial and leisure purposes globally has led to a rise in the number of near-misses with aircraft and infringements into no-fly zones, spurring calls for their use to be better regulated.
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The Trump administration's Justice Department is diving into the roiling waters of campus free speech controversies, mounting legal challenges to alleged infringements on speech by public universities, including the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.
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But now, Leafy argues, even bigger channels are being removed for minor infringements on community guidelines, which have been altered, he protests, to define even casually criticising another account in a video or comments as a form of cyberbullying.
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Annual trade between the communist neighbors exceeds $60 billion, but anti-China sentiment is strong in Vietnam, where people are embittered over what many see as a history of Chinese bullying and territorial infringements in the South China Sea.
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The group wants Congress to update the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which it believes places too much of a burden on content creators to police the internet for copyright infringements while letting internet platforms off the hook.
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A four-member court majority reversed Little Rock Circuit Judge Tim Fox's finding in December 2015 that the state's insistence on identifying both mother and father were infringements on the constitutional due process rights of adoptive gay and lesbian couples.
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Two of them, Elsevier and the American Chemical Society, that are part of a wider alliance called the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, have taken ResearchGate to court in Germany to establish whether it could be held accountable for copyright infringements.
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"Even if initial infringements are modest, the combination of rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a near-total U.S. embargo on Iranian energy exports and Europe's failure to operationalize a reliable means of trading with Iran is increasingly unstable," she writes.
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Violators can expect fines, but would face criminal prosecution for more serious infringements, such as receiving a gift of more than 1 million won, or for receiving a total of over 3 million won worth of gifts in a year.
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The increasing use of drones for commercial and leisure purposes has led to a rise in the number of near-misses with aircraft and infringements into no-fly zones, prompting companies and public institutions to seek ways to fend them off.
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The IOC's Olympic Games executive director, Christophe Dubi, told Reuters last week, prior to the fresh doping case, that in his daily meetings with organizers and federations there had been no mention of Russian infringements of the code of conduct.
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The IOC's Olympic Games executive director, Christophe Dubi, told Reuters last week, prior to the fresh doping case, that in his daily meetings with organisers and federations there had been no mention of Russian infringements of the code of conduct.
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"Brands in Brand Registry, on average, report 99% fewer suspected infringements compared with before the launch of Brand Registry, and Amazon took action on 93% of all notices of potential infringement received from Brand Registry within four hours," the spokesperson said.
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"The bump stocks gave me pause because that's an open door, a slippery slope, to way more infringements," she said, referring to the NRA's support for restrictions on the devices, which let semiautomatic rifles fire almost like an automatic weapon.
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The U.S. company's joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB) took Hyderabad-based Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd to court in 2015, claiming patent infringements and accusing the Indian company of continuing to use Monsanto's technology after MMB had cancelled its licensing contract.
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The organization's longtime president, Anders Besseberg, resigned this year shortly after a raid on the union's headquarters after prosecutors claimed that up to $300,000 had been paid to cover up doping infringements they said were carried out by Russian athletes.
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Stricter gun laws have been proposed after previous mass shootings, but most Republicans and some Democrats repeatedly have balked at what they see as infringements on the right to bear arms embedded in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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The U.S. company's joint venture Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (MMB) took Hyderabad-based Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd to court in 2015, claiming patent infringements and accusing the Indian company of continuing to use Monsanto's technology after MMB had canceled its licensing contract.
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"This is a coordinated action to protect the rights of artists and labels from the blatant infringements of YouTube-mp3, the world's single-largest 'stream ripping' site," said Frances Moore, CEO of the International Federation of the phonographic industry, in a press release.
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Why it matters: Even if initial infringements are modest, the combination of rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, a near-total U.S. embargo on Iranian energy exports and Europe's failure to operationalize a reliable means of trading with Iran is increasingly unstable.
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When it comes to Russia, the Congress has been active on the legislative front, having developed bipartisan legislation that refuses to recognize the annexation of Crimea, strengthened sanctions on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine, and condemned Moscow's infringements upon Georgia's sovereignty.
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"The absence of any concealment ... has already been confirmed by a ruling issued on 17 May 2017 by the Brescia Court of Appeal which annulled the administrative fine imposed by Consob, confirming that the alleged infringements had not taken place," the bank added.
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"The amount decided, and the publicity of the fine, are justified by the severity of the infringements observed regarding the essential principles of the GDPR: transparency, information and consent," the group said in a statement, referring to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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State inspectors back up the assertions three former employees made to Broadly: Williamson's Courage House was cited 2300 times in the first six months of this year for violations, including inadequate staffing, confidentiality breaches, and infringements on the personal rights of residents.
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In contrast to China's "Great Firewall" and routine government censorship of internet services, Hong Kong's internet is currently open and mostly unrestricted, with the exception of laws to prevent online crime, copyright infringements and the spread of obscene material like child pornography.
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While the Trump Organization has battled for years over infringements on its name in the country, it has also pursued a large number of hotel development deals in China, though one of his executives recently suggested that the organization would drop those projects.
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Subsequent mass shootings have brought a similar call for Congress to act on tougher gun laws, only to see Republicans and some Democrats balk at what they see as infringements on the right to bear arms embedded in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Note, too, that blockchains are unlikely to be of much use in mitigating run-of-the-mill infringements; it is still just too easy to crop or screen-scrape or dumb-down the high-quality version of record and create a "good enough to pirate" version.
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Finally, we urge politicians in America to support and pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act as soon as possible, to pay close attention to infringements of the "one country, two systems" principle and to impose sanctions on those who deny Hong Kongers their rights.
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A combination of inadequate IP laws and the glacial pace of India's legal system could mean millions in lost dollars for a company like Apple, whose success in no small measure depends on technological innovations and its ability to protect them from possible infringements damaging its brand and profits.
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Beijing's latest public shaming campaign - in which strongly-worded ministry reprimands are disseminated by local TV and newspapers - is its most overt attempt to bring polluters to account by exposing their infringements to wider community scrutiny, one part of the government's broader "war on pollution" launched in 2014.
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The five named countries join 44 others that ratified the convention's power to hear complaints against them; however, the United States and China, which are the biggest culprits among the world's top greenhouse-gas emitters, haven't signed the section of the treaty allowing children to seek justice for infringements.
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Google, whose privacy infringements and what many perceive as tax avoidance have earned the ire of European Union lawmakers, has become a byword among Europeans for Silicon Valley greed—particularly for Kreuzberg's electorate, over 75 percent of whom voted for far-left candidates at the most recent poll.
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Her report goes on to consider barriers to Europeans' being able to successfully seek redress for rights infringements resulting from the US surveillance regime, with Gorski arguing the government "routinely seeks to prevent individuals from obtaining redress for Section 702 and EO 12333 surveillance through civil litigation in U.S. courts".
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" Commenting on the funding in a statement, Northzone partner, Jessica Schultz, said: "There is a clear gap in the market for a technology solution that is scalable and flexible to the demands of the brand owners, and has strong relationships with the online properties where IP infringements are a problem.
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Though he'd made a splash in 20193 with his Zap Comix series, which helped define the underground comix aesthetic, his early thirties were plagued by disastrous relationships, lawsuits, financial struggles, heavy LSD use, and copyright infringements (including an X-rated film made about his Fritz the Cat character without his permission).
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In addition to legal caps on excessive overtime that would carry penalties for infringements, Abe's action plan calls for better pay for part-time and contract workers, with the government noting that around 40 percent of Japanese workers are 'non-regular' workers and are paid far less compared to other advanced countries.
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While, Article 20; "Use of protected content by online content sharing service providers", which makes platforms directly liable for copyright infringements by their users — thereby pushing them towards creating filters that monitor all content uploads with all the associated potential chilling effects (aka 'censorship machines') — was adopted by a 212:22018 majority.
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Efforts to put the initiatives on the ballot have been in the works for two years, and were energized by the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in May to strike down a number of local prohibitions as illegitimate infringements on the right of the state to regulate oil and gas exploration and production.
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But one of the core premises of the administration's intervention -- that the attacks on speech are primarily directed at conservatives -- is called into question by a data analysis from Georgetown University's Free Speech Project that finds that infringements on free speech are just as likely to come from the right as the left.
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Third, Mrs von der Leyen is determined to bind in those eastern member states that feel unfairly treated in the EU; making conciliatory noises about rule-of-law infringements in countries like Poland and Hungary, and calling for a reset on the divisive issue of accepting and distributing migrants who cross the Mediterranean.
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"I myself do not believe that any administrative steps or infringements or other measures taken by the European Commission in relation or against some member state will help a lot," Ms. Jourova said, acknowledging that governments in some member states often ignore legal steps taken by Europe for as long as possible.
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"Casino Sunrise" muses on the many political and social infringements upon indigenous people by non-Native systems of oppression, from past lynchings to contemporary fishing rights, from nuclear power plants to the hyper-sexualization of Native women, from the financial bandaid of casinos to the high levels of arrests of Native men.
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" Jeff Becker, an entertainment and media attorney at Swanson, Martin & Bell, who reviewed the contract for The Verge, said it was "unusual, at best, for a platform to open their terms and conditions with a provision that requires the artist to entirely release it of all prior violations and infringements committed by that platform.
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Its most controversial elements, passed much more narrowly, are Article 11, a "link tax" requiring social networks and news aggregators to pay publishers to display snippets of their output, and most of all Article 13, an "upload filter" making larger online publishers like YouTube responsible for copyright infringements in material uploaded by their users.
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On the controversial article 13 portion of the reform, which would make platforms directly liable for copyright infringements by users, options likely to be on the table include some previous texts (such as the text produced the Commission, or the original Legal Affairs Committee (Juri) text), which are therefore unlikely to gain a majority.
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Not included in the proposal: an earlier suggestion to have browsers default to not allow cookies; a strict privacy by design framework; and an earlier plan to allow EU citizens to bring class action lawsuits for privacy infringements… Not good that final #ePrivacy text scrapped group action possibility for consumers ≠ not in line with GDPR.
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"It's almost been considered up until now fair game that something done outside in public does not hold that right to privacy, but that's being challenged because at this point we're being overwhelmed by infringements upon privacy," Peter Elikann, a defense attorney and former chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's criminal justice council, told Motherboard.
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In mid-2018 the European Commission fined Google $5 billion for antitrust violations attached to how it operates the Android platform, including related to how it bundles its own services with the dominant smartphone OS, and ordered it to remedy the infringements — while leaving it up to the tech giant to devise a fix.
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In all four cases, the Commission said the level of fines were reduced — 50% in the case of Pioneer; and 40% for each of the others — due to the companies' co-operation with its investigations, specifying that they had provided evidence with "significant added value" and had "expressly acknowledg[ed] the facts and the infringements of EU antitrust rules".
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A court ruled on Wednesday that Norway had violated the human rights of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by keeping him in isolation since he was sentenced in 2012 for killing 77 people.. Snowden, whose supporters say he boldly exposed government infringements of privacy, fled the United States in May 2013 and now lives in Russia where he was granted asylum.
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There were other proposals appealing across the pro-European centre, for those who might have dismissed her as a dry, back-room politician: a right of legislative initiative for the European Parliament (that right rests in the commission), accelerated improvements on border controls, a shift away from unanimity requirements on foreign policy and a new mechanism for tackling rule-of-law infringements.
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With sources close to the two companies telling TechCrunch that this is the first time Match has ever mentioned possible patent infringements by Bumble, it's very possible that Match feels that discussions have stalled and this is their way of either forcing the deal forward or making Bumble an unattractive target for other bidders that may be scared off by this potential legal liability.
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Rodman, a Hall of Famer, has visited North Korea several times, beginning in 2013 for a basketball exhibition, and formed a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Rodman has drawn criticism for his ties to Kim, including when he called Kim "a friend for life" and when he seemingly defended Kim and North Korea's infringements on human rights in an angry rant on CNN.
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In today's second-day President Trump news: 'The Donald' has seized, belatedly, on the European Commission's announcement yesterday that Google is guilty of three types of illegal antitrust behavior — with its Android OS, since 2011 — and that it is fining the company $5 billion; a record-breaking penalty which the Commission's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, said reflects the length and gravity of the company's competition infringements.
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There was more ammunition for his critics on this score last week when he canceled a separate trip to Denmark because its prime minister would not sell Greenland to the US. Democratic presidential candidates -- especially former Vice President Joe Biden -- are using such infringements of international etiquette to build their case that Trump is an embarrassment as America's outside face to the world and is therefore not fit for a second term.
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"It's our view that we will be obliged to impose fines where we find infringements and so that's what will happen but we expect that it's the corrective powers that we apply — the bans on processing, the requirements to bring processing operations into compliance that's going to have the more significant effects," she said, suggesting that under her watch the DPC will not shy away from using corrective powers if or when an infringement demands it.
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"In case the crime was meant as an attempt to deter an independent publisher like Ringier Axel Springer Slovakia from uncovering any infringements, we will use this as an opportunity to be even more conscientious and consistent in fulfilling our journalistic mission," Axel Springer said in a joint statement with Ringier AG, Ringier Axel Springer Slovakia and Ringier Axel Springer Media AG. It said it would support the Slovak authorities in their efforts to identify the killers.
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Here's a run down of the issues and what's at stake… The most controversial component of the proposals concerns user-generated content platforms such as YouTube, and the idea they should be made liable for copyright infringements committed by their users — instead of the current regime of takedowns after the fact (which locks rights holders into having to constantly monitor and report violations — y'know, at the same time as Alphabet's ad business continues to roll around in dollars and eyeballs).
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The protest follows a vote by the EU parliament's legal affairs committee last month which backed the reforms — including the two most controversial elements: Article 22018, which makes platforms directly liable for copyright infringements by their users — pushing them towards pre-filtering all content uploads, with all the associated potential chilling effects for free expression; and Article 11, which targets news aggregator business models by creating a neighboring right for snippets of journalistic content — aka 'the link tax', as critics dub it.
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Reda has also tabled a series of additional amendments to try to roll back what she characterizes as "some bad decisions narrowly made by the Legal Affairs Committee" — including adding a copyright exception for user generated content (which would essentially get platforms off the hook insofar as rights infringements by web users are concerned); adding an exception for freedom of panorama (aka the taking and sharing of photos in public places, which is currently not allowed in all EU Member States); and another removing a proposed extra copyright added by the Juri committee to cover sports events — which she contends would "filter fan culture away".
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