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Social Media Marketing: Brand Indemnification of Celebrities and Influencers

Traverse Legal Blog

“Influencer Marketing” and “Social Media Brand Endorsement” have become big business. Our law firm represents some of the business’s largest social media marketing agencies and influencers. This means they also own and need to license the copyright to the brand. This happens all the time.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System

The IPKat

This Kat is delighted to review “ Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System ” (eds. The book opens with Anselm Kamperman Sanders and Anke Moerland advancing their vision as to why intellectual property (IP) must be regarded as a complex adaptive system (CAS).

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Protection of Intellectual Property (IP) in the Metaverse

Kashishipr

The dramatic rise in e-commerce in the last two decades saw many brand and business owners struggling to safeguard their Intellectual Property (IP) assets in cyberspace, starting from domain names and then going onto social media handles. A Comprehensive Approach to IPRs. For more visit: [link].

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Intellectual Property Protections of Olympic Proportions: A Look at Tokyo 2020

IPilogue

IOC regulations are only one of the many sets of rules that surround the intellectual property (IP) of the Olympic Games. Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content.

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The Hocus Pocus of Intellectual Property in Halloween Costumes

IPilogue

Nonetheless, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office notes that those in the jewellery industry may be granted industrial design registrations, offering a different kind of intellectual property protection. In a way, purely ornamental jewellery may be analogous to works of art. This is contrary to the U.S. DIY Tricks?

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IP Forecast: Pinterest Looks To Defend DMCA Win At 9th Circ.

IP Law 360

Pinterest heads to the Ninth Circuit next week to defend a lower court ruling that allowed the company to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to shield itself from copyright litigation over how it markets images that users upload to the social media site.

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Is Your Brand Protection Strategy Defamation-Proof?

IP Watchdog

Post after post after post, across numerous websites and social media platforms, alleging that Mr. Willison was a sociopathic criminal. A business associate had mentioned that Mr. Willison might want to Google himself, as some odd search results were appearing. And there they were.