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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Some forms of data are protected by copyright, trademark, or another cognizable forms of intellectual property. But most of the data on the Internet isn’t easily protectible as intellectual property by those who might have an incentive to protect it.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

They are among the most valuable intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the digital age since they tend to be the main assets of technological companies and are exchanged on e-commerce platforms. Using trademarks in domain names, linking, framing, meta-tagging, and framing are a few methods that could lead to trademark challenges.

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#MajeMyDogandI: No copyright protection for a selfie in the lift

The IPKat

Each of her outfits are tagged so that her followers could identify the products worn. As a result, Mercredie sent a cease-and-desist letter to the French brand on 16 September 2019. regardless of its genre, form of expression, merit or purpose, and that photographic works are considered intellectual works". 112-1 and L.

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It’s Not a Bag, it’s a MetaBirkin!

IPilogue

The Birkin’s hefty price tag — a Diamond Himalaya Birkin sold for over $400,000 in 2017 — has made it a prime target for knockoffs. Recently, Hermès has tested out the scope of their intellectual property rights in the metaverse. Trademark Protection in the Metaverse .

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[Guest post] Retromark Volume X: the last six months in trade marks

The IPKat

Given in use a trade mark could be viewed at all sorts of angles, especially when attached to goods as a swing tag (the Huawei application covered glasses and watches among other things), this series of judgments seems narrow-minded. Earlier this year the EU General Court made it three for three. Brexit ruined my trade mark practice!