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Copyright Lately
MAY 27, 2021
In a new development in the ongoing legal saga over photo embedding, Instagram has been hit with a class action lawsuit. I finally had a chance to take a closer look at the new copyright class action complaint filed last week against Instagram. What is Embedding?
The IP Law Blog
MARCH 24, 2022
We previously wrote about a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California against Instagram regarding the use of Instagram’s embedding tools. The plaintiffs, in that case, are two photojournalists who captured images of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election and posted them to Instagram.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
“In-line linking” uses the Internet’s magic to let a web page incorporate a file, such as a photo or video, into a page’s display without actually hosting it. For reasons unexplained in the opinion, the court says the “parties agree that Instagram is not a direct copyright infringer.”
TorrentFreak
JULY 18, 2023
Photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer posted several of their copyrighted works on Instagram. In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ Time did not seek permission from Brauer or Instagram to embed the photograph of Hillary Clinton.
LexBlog IP
MARCH 24, 2022
We previously wrote about a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California against Instagram regarding the use of Instagram’s embedding tools. The plaintiffs, in that case, are two photojournalists who captured images of the George Floyd protests and the 2016 election and posted them to Instagram.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 1, 2023
Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir. The plaintiffs (Alexis Hunley and Matthew Scott Brauer) are photographers who posted some of their own photos to Instagram. 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.
Copyright Lately
AUGUST 2, 2021
Instagram fights a class action in California, while a New York court rejects a settled embedding defense. With the dog days of summer squarely upon us, you’d be forgiven for missing the bicoastal battle that’s been brewing over the legality of Instagram embedding. Therefore, there’s no direct infringement.
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