Weekly IP Buzz for the Week Ending October 7, 2022
In this week's post, we see that Amazon issues its brand protection report for 2022 indicating success in efforts to curb counterfeit issues and bad actors on the online selling platform.
Also, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and digital locks.
Amazon's Efforts to Combat Counterfeiting and Fraud
Amazon recently released its Brand Protection Report for 2022, reporting on the progress of its key initiatives to combat counterfeiting in 2021 and its plan for continued success in those areas.
Continuing with its key goals from the previous year, Amazon outlined its progress and plans forward in four key areas: (1) Robust proactive controls on product authenticity; (2) Brand protection tools; (3) Holding counterfeiters accountable; and (4) Protecting and educating consumers. Under this structure, Amazon outlines its intent to be “earth’s most customer-centric company” where consumers “can find and discovery the widest possible selection of authentic goods.”
Read more here.
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Regarding Anti-Hacking
Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding digital locks under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The issue has been a sore subject for critics of the law and finally reached the Supreme Court for final review.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has long prohibited circumvention of digital protective measures in order to afford copyright protection to qualifying works. Such protection encompasses everything from simple password protection to more complex digital encryption. In 2016, computer experts, Matthew Green and Andrew Huang, sued the federal government over Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Green and Huang argued that computer code is speech, and as such, Section 1201 violates the U.S. Constitution because it illegally restricts free speech.
Find the full article here.
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