<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Lawyerd — Enforcement News</title><description>Short enforcement news for brand owners — court decisions, platform policy, regulator action — each with a practising counsel’s note.</description><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Hundreds of scam PDFs are ranking from the European Space Agency&apos;s own domain — and Google is quoting them back</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/esa-cosmos-portal-pdf-spam-parasite-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/esa-cosmos-portal-pdf-spam-parasite-seo/</guid><description>ESA&apos;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&apos;s AI Overview has relayed their rankings as ESA&apos;s. Google calls that hacked content, not site reputation abuse.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Scam watch</category></item><item><title>Munich held Suno liable for what its model produced — and reached the US training that built it</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/munich-court-suno-gema-ai-training-output-liability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/munich-court-suno-gema-ai-training-output-liability/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Courts</category></item><item><title>Operation Offsides seized 1,000+ domains — then its own director said that doesn&apos;t dismantle the business</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/operation-offsides-domain-seizures-site-blocking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/operation-offsides-domain-seizures-site-blocking/</guid><description>DOJ announced 1,000+ World Cup streaming domains seized across three actions on EDVA warrants. Eleven days later the MPA and the IPR Center&apos;s own director co-signed an op-ed conceding a takedown does not dismantle the business — and asked Congress for judicial site blocking.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:20:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Regulation</category></item><item><title>Delhi High Court blocks 30 pirate operations for HBO — and redraws who decides what gets blocked next</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/delhi-high-court-hbo-mirror-blocking-verification/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/delhi-high-court-hbo-mirror-blocking-verification/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Courts</category></item><item><title>Live! Casino says its vendor cleared the Louis Vuitton lookalike bags — and sues to move the bill</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/louis-vuitton-live-casino-supplier-indemnity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/louis-vuitton-live-casino-supplier-indemnity/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:50:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Courts</category></item><item><title>Backdated Facebook posts are powering fake copyright strikes — creators drag Meta to Delhi High Court</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/meta-backdated-posts-fake-copyright-strikes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/meta-backdated-posts-fake-copyright-strikes/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Scam watch</category></item><item><title>Federal Circuit ends the Intellectual Pixels v. Sony cloud-gaming patent fight</title><link>https://lawyerd.net/news/federal-circuit-sony-intellectual-pixels-cloud-gaming-patent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://lawyerd.net/news/federal-circuit-sony-intellectual-pixels-cloud-gaming-patent/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:05:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Courts</category></item></channel></rss>