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Internet operators who are aware of retailers selling counterfeit products online and yet continue to provide them with services will be punished, a judge at the Beijing Intellectual Property Court said.

'Part of transforming to a society that values our needs, relationships and the natural world is ensuring corporations are held accountable for their actions.'

Eight years after her death and six decades following her quiet retirement from the film world, Setsuko Hara arguably remains the best-known twentieth-century Japanese actress. Audiences worldwide remember her unique beauty (she was often suspected to be of partial European heritage)1 and the humane performances she gave in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. “Decidedly unglamorous,” wrote Stephen Harvey in a 1974 issue of Film Comment, “this least histrionic of actresses relied on little more than...

NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - Four people who witnessed a loud explosion at a nearby refinery that sent flames shooting 55 feet into the air didn’t prove the “genuine and serious mental distress” necessary to win damages under Louisiana law, the state’s highest court ruled.

Governor Jerry Brown approved Senate Bill No. 721. The bill, commonly referred to as the Balcony Inspection Law, went into effect on January 1, 2019 and the deadline for initial inspections is January 1, 2025. The Balcony Inspection Law amended Section 1954 of the Civil Code.

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Protection of customary laws of tribal groups in the North East is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The second wave of “Bill 64” amendments to Québec’s private-sector privacy legislation – the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (“PPIPS”) – will...

The coffee giant was found to have allegedly tracked people's movements through its app without their consent. Now, those users are being offered a coffee and snack.

In many countries — most notably the U.S. — corporations are considered “persons” under law, enjoying many of the same legal rights and responsibilities as “natural” persons. Judging by the way some corporations operate, you might conclude they’re not very good people. Defining corporations as “persons” simply means they have a legal identity separate from shareholders and