IP Law 360

MAY 24, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc. and a Philadelphia news anchor have agreed to end a lawsuit claiming the social media company allowed her likeness to be used without her permission in racy advertisements on Facebook, a case that spotlighted the evolution of internet content regulation.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 26, 2022

On July 20 th , 2022, Meta Platforms Inc. Meta”) was hit with a $142 million lawsuit. The suit was filed in California Northern District Court by Swedish music label and publishing company, Epidemic Sound. They claimed that Meta, on its social media platforms, has stolen hundreds of their content.

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43(B)log

MARCH 6, 2024

Meta Platforms, Inc., 5, 2024) Metroplex, a local advertising company, brought a putative class action against Meta for unfair competition. As for stating a claim, Meta noted that most of the challenged statements weren’t “advertising.” Metroplex Communic., 2024 WL 940127, No. 22-cv-1455-SMY (S.D.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A Dutch patent licensing company's legal crusade against yet another tech giant has come to an end in front of U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who flipped a favorable claim construction ruling the company won in Texas against Meta Platforms Inc. and torpedoed the lawsuit a few weeks ahead of a scheduled trial.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc. and digital banking company Chime Financial Inc.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 23, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc. is continuing its exploration of the metaverse with its recent bids to register the company's new logo as trademarks for crypto and virtual products and services.

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IP Law 360

JULY 12, 2022

Facebook's corporate parent Meta Platforms Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The court also notes the Supreme Court’s Taamneh opinion , saying it “rejected the argument that a social media company’s algorithms could constitute substantial assistance to terrorists.” Meta Platforms, Inc., Meta appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. July 24, 2023).

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Michael Geist

MARCH 21, 2023

However, it still retained mandated document disclosures that should send a chill into companies, NGOs, and anyone else that engages in, or strategizes about, government legislation. At issue is Google and Meta’s response to Bill C-18, the bill that establishes uncapped liability for the two companies for linking to news stories.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Meta Platforms, Inc., 10, 2022) Dfinity alleged that Meta infringed its Dfinity and Rainbow marks in its rebranding. Dfinity’s website also provides users with “educational tutorials and courses in the field of distributed computing platforms.” Dfinity Found. 2022 WL 16857036, No. 22-cv-02632-CRB (N.D.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademarks are becoming even more significant assets for companies trying to stand out in a competitive market due to the growth of online platforms and e-commerce. 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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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI, Inc. , [1] a putative class action filed on behalf of a group of authors alleging that OpenAI infringed their copyrighted literary works by using them to train ChatGPT. [2] This decision continues the trend of narrowing copyright, DMCA, and related state law claims against generative AI companies. Meta [3] and Andersen v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Lastly, Plaintiff was not denied access to or services of Facebook… Meta is a private company and a user of Facebook cannot dictate what will be published on its website.” “Plaintiff alleges Defendant removed Palestinian Muslim news sources from its platform. AOL, Sikhs for Justice v. Facebook , Shulman v.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Several major AI companies are currently using synthetic data to train their AI models.[2] 2] A new type of business has even emerged: companies are now specializing in providing synthetic datasets, either from a pre-existing proprietary database or by creating “bespoke” synthetic data generated on demand for specific customers.[3]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties. And then, in 2017, the famous hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp.

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Intepat

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the case of My Space Inc. the appellant owned an online platform that enabled users to upload and exchange content and the respondent was an audio and video cassette production music company. the respondents were listing counterfeit products on its e-commerce platform Darveys.com, using the name and image of the appellant.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many companies are collaborating to create an innovative and immersive metaverse experience and have somewhat succeeded in doing so however the legal aspects of the same are unaddressed, rather ignored. Facebook recently changed its name to META and has proposed to invest roughly 10 billion dollars to develop the Metaverse.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 12, 2022

Platinum Properties Investor Network, Inc. H&R Block, Inc. Block, Inc., April 28, 2022): “That confusion has been amplified by Block’s public communications and worsened by third parties who have, and will likely continue, to link Block, Inc. ” * Theorem, Inc. Troubleshooter Network, Inc.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

YouTube and Twitch as a platform have earned their fame by being a platform to share content and build a community around the content creator. Vtubers have paved their way into the majorly human-centric public figures platform and made Vtubers into public figures. 11] Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The word Meta means beyond or after in Greek and Verse means universe. Many big companies are getting ready to enter the world of Metaverse, for example, Nike for the purpose of selling virtual footwear and apparel in the virtual world of metaverse filed many trademark applications with the U.S Introduction. of the internet.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

In addition to alleging trademark infringement due to Rothschild’s use of BIRKIN in METABIRKINS as the name for his NFT collection, Hermès complained that Rothschild infringed by using METABIRKINS as a domain name, as a handle on Twitter and other social media platforms, as a brand name on NFT sales platforms, and as a hashtag.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

In addition to alleging trademark infringement due to Rothschild’s use of BIRKIN in METABIRKINS as the name for his NFT collection, Hermès complained that Rothschild infringed by using METABIRKINS as a domain name, as a handle on Twitter and other social media platforms, as a brand name on NFT sales platforms, and as a hashtag.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

courts have addressed the legality of non-expressive uses of copyrighted works in the context of other copy-reliant technologies, including software reverse engineering, [2] plagiarism detection software, [3] and the digitization of millions of library books to enable meta-analysis, text data mining, and search engine indexing. [4]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Last year, the most important case in the history of web scraping— hiQ Labs, Inc. The first is Meta v. Bright Data is the world’s biggest scraping company, headquartered in Israel. Meta is Meta. Bright Data allegedly scraped Meta’s public data and sold it to its clients.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. Meta sued in California.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A federal judge in Maryland on Monday told lawyers for Instagram's parent company that they couldn't quite escape a lawsuit from a dealer of "fine adult paraphernalia" going by the username "lickmykakez" who wants to use trademark law to hold Meta Platforms Inc.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Another targets The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK nonprofit known for scraping the platform to quantify the proliferation of hate speech, for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, inducing breach of contract, and civil violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). BrandTotal Ltd.,

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 6, 2023

companies in the name of “stronger patents” didn’t resonate on the Hill. companies to fight home-grown profiteers. South Korea Google LLC Delaware Samsung Electronics America, Inc. f/k/a Samsung Telecommunications America LLC New York Amazon.com, Inc. Delaware Meta Platforms, Inc.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

It gives a virtual platform to the people to interact with each other to share and create content. As the number of companies are increasing in the domestic and international markets the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is also increasing. Entertainment 2000, Inc. Rockstar Videos, Inc, et al.,

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The “Metaverse” is an expansive online world that can be experienced via multiple technological platforms – from a screen of a mobile device to the lens of a virtual reality (VR) system. A popular example of a VR headset is the Oculus series of headsets as provided by Reality Labs and its parent company Meta Platforms.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

vs Mohalla Tech Private Limited on 1 November, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here In a copyright infringement dispute, the plaintiff sought an interim injunction against the defendant for allegedly continuing to offer its copyrighted recordings on their platforms ShareChat and MojApp post-license expiration. The Polo/ Lauren Company L.P

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Taking the term literally, ‘Meta’ means beyond or higher, making the term ‘metaverse’ denote something which is beyond the universe. The internet connects a variety of websites that can be accessed using a single browser, mirroring this, the metaverse too is a combination of several platforms. – First to own v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The High Court cited a number of Indian precedents [ii] which have also previously held infringement to not be exclusive to visual representation of trademarks, largely in the context of meta-tags. Gaurav Jerry MIPR 2014 (3) 101; Mattel Inc. & i] Merck & Co. & Anr. Mediplan Health Consulting [425 F. IMG Technologies Pvt.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Atkinson “did not allege sufficient facts to infer that Meta Platforms is a government actor.” “Finally, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not independently transform Meta Platforms into a government actor for First Amendment purposes.” Meta Platforms, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Montana’s TikTok Ban Overview In May, Montana banned TikTok in the state so long as it is owned by a company (in this case, ByteDance) that is incorporated in China, a country designated as a foreign adversary. There is evidence to support Plaintiffs’ position that TikTok is not interchangeable with other social media applications.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The opinion summarizes the allegations: Defendants Twitter, Inc. The summary continues: Plaintiff seeks $5 billion in damages and asks the Court to seize “all assets of Elon Musk and the Twitter platform … until the outcome of this complaint.” Meta Another Account Suspension Case Yeeted–Rangel v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 14, 2023

Thus, contrary to Hart’s argument, Crawford’s deposition testimony from Missouri does not show that the Federal Defendants exerted control over social media companies or that the Federal Defendants and the Social Media Defendants had “a meeting of the minds to violate constitutional rights.” Facebook Inc.,

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