Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

Gold continues with specific examples: For example, Facebook acquired exclusive broadcasting rights for several baseball games during the 2018, 2019 Major League Baseball seasons. When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to the Complaint, Defendant, Jane Doe aka Denise Gilbey Moe (“Defendant” or “Moe”), was employed by VAF until October 2018. Due to the nature of Moe’s position, she was allegedly granted access to VAF’s social media accounts including its Facebook page during her employment.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While Bolt’s trademark registration is for the design mark rather than the pose, the use of poses and gestures in branding can potentially bring a new wave of “unusual” trademarks, especially as social media and technology have spread previously unthought-of but recognizable traits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? by guest blogger Prof. Alexandra Jane Roberts. As a bar and restaurant, the use is commercial, but is it also transformative?

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

According to the Complaint, Katherine is featured at many educational conferences as a keynote speaker and has a large following of almost 100,000 via her blog and other social media platforms where she shares her findings. The 2018 purchase included only “two Space Saver kits and eight flashcard sets.”

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” (That doesn’t seem a helpful conclusion, but the court seems to think that suggestive terms must have secondary meaning to be protected.)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

Snap appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court says that document doesn’t make any promises that would help the plaintiffs, plus its audience was law enforcement, not users. LEXIS 12105 (C.D. 19, 2024) The post Plaintiffs Tried to Plead Around Section 230. It Didn’t Work–Ziencik v.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2022

1 Joint & Muscle Spray and Cream Topical Pain Relief Brand” on: (1) its Australian website; (2) social media; and (3) Ultimate Fighting Championship (“UFC”) athletes’ clothing in matches televised in the United States. It also used radio and television outlets in select US markets.

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43(B)log

JULY 6, 2022

Marketing Sales Practices & Prods. Plaintiffs moved to certify four classes of purchasers of JUUL products on “theories that defendants’ marketing of JUUL was unlawfully deceptive, JUUL was unlawfully marketed to youth, and JUUL products are not fit for ordinary use.” In Re Juul Labs, Inc., I don't even have a RICO tag!

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IPilogue

JULY 23, 2021

Despite its short runtime, this episode touches on many interesting ways IP law can apply to the NFT space and is especially important as the NFT market continues to grow. “S S ocial Media & Your IP Rights ” by Innovation Talks. T he Progress Pride Flag, and the Realities of IP ” by Input Doc: Marketing Interviews. “T

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. The EU is a vibrant music market, and the access to—and usage of—personal data helps to maintain this.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Further, they recorded their dissatisfaction with the defendant’s use of the mark ‘Fly High’ as hashtags on popular social media websites to promote their services. vs Gujarat Co-Operative Milk marketing federation LTD. & that is not capable of acting as a source identifier. Download Order/Judgement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The wranglings caused the registrant’s sticker to be removed from Amazon for a total of 44 days in 2018 across several different incidents. Before November 19, 2018, the previous takedown notices to Amazon didn’t violate 512(f) because the successor licensee didn’t have the requisite bad intent.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

CAP has provided Guidance (the “ ASA Guidance ”) to assist marketers in interpreting the requirements of the new rules. . It is worth noting that the new rules do not only apply to sports stars, they also apply to influencers with a large under-18s following (for example, reality show stars with a large social media presence). .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Starting in 2018, Shared “lost access” to the instant articles program three times, each time (allegedly) without advance notice despite the applicable TOS saying Facebook “will use good faith efforts to provide Publisher with notice of” any termination.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 6, 2022

It is worth noting that the new rules do not only apply to sports stars, they also apply to influencers with a large under-18s following (for example, reality show stars with a large social media presence). Advertisers will no doubt be looking to launch marketing campaigns to target the opportunities that this presents.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Internet infrastructure company was featured in the first EU piracy watchlist in 2018 and responded with rebuttals. Since then, the company is no longer labeled a ‘notorious market’ Other sites and services have also dropped off the list. Social media. A similar position was experienced by Cloudflare.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 19, 2022

Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets. After all, “improperly prolonging a monopoly is as much an offense against the Sherman Act as is wrongfully acquiring market power in the first place.”

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 15, 2023

The company aims at highlighting the qualities of the products through advertisements which thereafter becomes an advertisement campaign which build the market identity of the product. The advertisements require a lot of brainstorming in highlighting the distinctive characteristics of the product and build its uniqueness.

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azrights

MAY 10, 2022

Compumark an industry leader in trademark research and protection reported in 2020 that trademark infringement is rising year on year with 85% of brands experiencing trademark infringement in the previous year, showing a steady upward trend from 81% in 2018 and 74% in 2017. Not understanding marketing. Failing to plan properly.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There is uncertainty over how much selection and refinement is needed to produce the best work (see examples of selection, refinement and reworking here and here ) and getting the right prompt is challenging enough to have created a market for effective prompts.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 5, 2024

2, 2024) Some interesting comments on when individual instances of “confusion” don’t count, as well as their relevance to evaluating out-of-court social media etc. While multiple witnesses testified as to Plaintiff’s significant marketing and advertising efforts, that alone is not indicative of strength.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 6, 2021

American Girl applied for trademarks on a space-themed doll named Luciana Vega, which it began marketing in 2018 as its “Girl of the Year” doll. Walkowicz allegedly received multiple emails and social-media messages commenting on the similarities between Walkowicz and Luciana and inquiries about whether they had endorsed the doll.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. It encompasses all intersecting IT industries and might affect anything from social media use to surveillance, e-commerce, and technological innovation. An NFT and the corresponding permission to use, copy, or display the asset can be bought and sold in digital markets.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

Media critics allegedly readily observed that the new show was “a clone of A&E’s Live PD,” and that “On Patrol: Live is Live PD.” Fan reactions on social media included “Ok. Query: what percentage of social media comments about On Patrol: Live does this represent? So they’re in the same online video market.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As the District Court noted: When Dorland read an online version of The Kindest in 2018, she noted the similarities between her letter and the letter in the story. They also resulted in the Boston Book Festival cancelling its annual One City, One Story event, which had planned to feature The Kindest in 2018. ” Id.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others. Breitbart News Network, LLC , 302 F.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The long history of the parties’ joint presence on the UK market clearly added a degree of complexity to the judgment, which contains a detailed review of each side’s business over the years. I may have misheard but I believe this might also be on the way to the Court of Appeal on the crowded market point. IPKat here.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling. Amazon stopped the program in 2018, before Amazon recruiters had used it to evaluate candidates, when AI specialists discovered that the engine was biased against hiring women.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 10, 2022

The dispute over the “Ranchero” marks began back in 2018 when Cacique, LLC (“Cacique”) opposed El Ranchero Limited Partnership ‘s (“El Ranchero”) EL RANCHERO applications by claiming that it had priority and that the marks were confusingly similar to its several RANCHERO word and design marks.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2024

Further, the ICO considers the different ways in which GenAI models may be brought to the market, and suggests mitigations for related risks and harms that may be caused to individuals. the DPA 2018 ” in relation to the development and use of GenAI. through use of output filters). 1] The UK’s data protection authority. [2]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

In that sense, this case is like the “material support for terrorists” cases against social media services, which have failed on a wide variety of grounds beyond Section 230. The court concludes: The murder of Commander Paul Bauer on February 13, 2018 was horrific and inexcusable. The answer must be no.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 19, 2021

CasperLabs was founded in October 2018 under that name. CasperLabs, meanwhile, alleged that “Casper” and “CasperLabs” had become widely recognized on social media to refer to its network. “A Zamfir’s branch of this research, carried out in the US, became known as “CBC Casper,” aka “Casper.”

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