Enforcement, on the record.
What moved in takedowns, brand protection and platform policy — with counsel’s note on what it means for brand owners.
- Hundreds of scam PDFs are ranking from the European Space Agency's own domain — and Google is quoting them back ESA's Cosmos portal is serving hundreds of spam PDFs pushing pirate IPTV and free-Robux generators from cosmos.esa.int URLs — three still answered HTTP 200 on 4 August 2026, and Google's AI Overview has relayed their rankings as ESA's. Google calls that hacked content, not site reputation abuse. Scam watch
- Munich held Suno liable for what its model produced — and reached the US training that built it LG München I, 31 July 2026: Suno infringed six GEMA compositions. Memorisation in model parameters is reproduction, outside the § 44b TDM exception; outputs infringe because the originals stay recognisable; the injunction reaches training done in the US. The provider is liable, not the prompter. Courts
- Operation Offsides seized 1,000+ domains — then its own director said that doesn't dismantle the business DOJ announced 1,000+ World Cup streaming domains seized across three actions on EDVA warrants. Eleven days later the MPA and the IPR Center's own director co-signed an op-ed conceding a takedown does not dismantle the business — and asked Congress for judicial site blocking. Regulation
- Delhi High Court blocks 30 pirate operations for HBO — and redraws who decides what gets blocked next CS(COMM) 740/2026 grants HBO an ad-interim block across 30 rogue-site operations, then limits the dynamic extension: registrars and ISPs verify mirror identity only, rights-holders carry the affidavit — and the risk of getting it wrong. Courts
- Live! Casino says its vendor cleared the Louis Vuitton lookalike bags — and sues to move the bill Louis Vuitton claims a Maryland casino handed out counterfeit monogram bags in a loyalty promo; the casino is now suing the promotional supplier that sold them. What the chain says about promo merchandise risk for regulated brands. Courts
- Backdated Facebook posts are powering fake copyright strikes — creators drag Meta to Delhi High Court Scammers swap old Facebook posts’ attachments for stolen videos, keep the original date, and file “older-than-yours” copyright strikes. Delhi High Court is examining the racket — what brand owners should check in their own rights tooling. Scam watch
- Federal Circuit ends the Intellectual Pixels v. Sony cloud-gaming patent fight All twelve claims of the ’109 patent — server-rendered frames streamed to thin clients — held obvious over 1990s server-gaming art. What the decision signals to studios facing streaming-patent demands. Courts