9th Circuit clarifies that Rogers v. Grimaldi covers news/political speech, not just "art"
43(B)log
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Logical, but this is the clearest statement yet. Opinion here. The court also clarifies that, when Gordon v.
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43(B)log
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Logical, but this is the clearest statement yet. Opinion here. The court also clarifies that, when Gordon v.
IP Watchdog
APRIL 25, 2023
The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News attracted lots of attention. billion, the role of the First Amendment, and the press’ right to free speech were all key talking points around this lawsuit. What was not a part of these discussions were the implications to Fox’s trademark, FOX NEWS®.
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TorrentFreak
JANUARY 17, 2024
Three members were previously arrested for alleged obscenity violations but were eventually acquitted after the men received support from freedom of speech activists. Free Speech Has Limits A criminal copyright infringement trial that concluded in Finland this week also saw the defendant rely on a fair use-style parody defense.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 7, 2024
The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech. The movie companies believe that Magistrate Judge Hixson failed to properly weigh the nature of the speech involved. Illegal Speech? The court refused to do so, thrice.
Michael Geist
MARCH 13, 2024
Those bills, which addressed Internet streaming and news, faced widespread criticism over potential regulation of user content and the prospect of blocked news links on major Internet platforms.
Likelihood of Confusion
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Kansas City infoZine News reports (link added): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned the Chicago Auto Show to back off attempts to muzzle protestors [sic] who posted a parody of the show’s website. appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Michael Geist
JULY 7, 2022
The outpouring has left me struggling to reconcile the seeming hypocrisy of politicians who warn about the dangers of CRTC speech regulation even as they have been the most ardent supporters of Bill C-11, eager to pass resolutions that call on the federal government to enact legislation empowering the CRTC to regulate user content.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Some of the highlights from the opinion: Protected Speech. The court easily brushes this aside, saying “this Court does not think that a law prohibiting minors from contracting to access to a plethora of protected speech can be reduced to a regulation of commercial conduct.” Citing Brown v.
IPilogue
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Therefore, to safeguard freedom of speech, some jurisdictions have enacted anti-SLAPP laws. To combat “fake news,” governments must carefully regulate social media content. Briefly stated, SLAPP lawsuits seek to suppress and stifle critics to force them to cease voicing their opposition. Further Reading.
Michael Geist
APRIL 14, 2022
Last week, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez introduced Bill C-18, the Online News Act, a bill that adopts an extreme approach to compensation by requiring payments for merely facilitating access to news in any way and in any amount.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 15, 2024
Last week, MPA CEO Charles Rivkin used his keynote speech at CinemaCon to double down on this demand, urging U.S. At a previous hearing in Congress, MPA’s Karyn Temple already gave lawmakers a walkthrough of the popular pirate streaming site FMovies and, in his CinemaCon speech, Rivkin put the same site under the spotlight.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Evans, who was hired for the job in November 2020, gave a freshman convocation speech to a mix of students and faculty on September 15. However, as the speech went on, it became clear that many of the words he was speaking were not his own and not attributed in the speech. A Difficult Argument to Make. University Photo of Evans.
IP Close Up
JUNE 28, 2022
Are internet content aggregators little more than public utilities or must they take a more active part in combating fake news and hate speech carried Continue reading.
Michael Geist
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
The meeting finally provided the chance to ask department officials for their views on key questions, including whether the government believes that services such as Reddit and Twitter are caught by the law (the answer was yes they are digital news intermediaries, but may not be sufficiently dominant to be required to negotiate mandate payments).
Copyright Lately
JANUARY 13, 2023
They are, of course, from King’s famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech. But as you celebrate his life and listen to his words, ask yourself this question: have you ever heard the whole speech? King’s estate sued CBS, which had produced a documentary containing 60% of his “Dream” speech. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael Geist
MAY 5, 2023
The notion that the problem with the media is the lack of government funding to enable a shift to ad-free news misdiagnosis the misinformation challenge as one linked primarily to advertising. Ironically, it would entrench existing media outlets and limit new news outlets and innovation. Is it online-only news sources?
TorrentFreak
APRIL 17, 2024
Last month, the community-driven news and discussion platform went public and, with a market cap of more than $6 billion, immediately became one of the larger tech players. subpoenas, but in this case, it argued that the requests violated users’ constitutional right to anonymous speech. The company does typically respond to U.S.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 7, 2023
The social discussion platform largely rejected this request, arguing it would violate their users’ First Amendment Right to anonymous speech. However, it’s in the news now. Reddit still refuses to hand over the information, however, in order to protect the anonymous speech of its users.
SpicyIP
AUGUST 22, 2022
We are pleased to bring our readers a guest post by Abhijay Srekanth and Vivek Basanagoudar on interaction of trademarks with free speech. Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute. B) All forms of news reporting and news commentary. (C) C) Any non-commercial use of a mark.
TorrentFreak
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Reddit refused to cooperate, defending their users’ right to anonymous speech, and found a California federal court in agreement. Reddit, again, refused to hand over information, arguing it would violate users’ right to anonymous speech. In a second attempt a few weeks later, several film companies sent a similar subpoena to Reddit.
The IPKat
JANUARY 20, 2024
IP events, news, and opportunities are continuously announced as the end of January rapidly approaches. Allan James, Senior Hearing Officer at the UK IPO, will give the keynote speech. Other news and opportunities Call for papers: Prof. Check them out! Events Seminar ‘From the Batmobile to Mickey Mouse via Pippi Longstocking’.
Michael Geist
MAY 6, 2023
Indeed, these resolutions are only the latest in a series of legislative and policy measures in which the government and the governing party have become increasingly comfortable with speech regulation that raises serious constitutional concerns. I don’t know what else to say other than this feels like uncharted territory. It must stop.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 9, 2023
.” HK sued the school district for free speech deprivations. The court summarizes its application of Mahanoy and some precedent cases involving group bullying online: when a student causes, contributes to, or affirmatively participates in harmful speech, the student bears responsibility for the harmful speech.
IP Law 360
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Progressive FCC nominee Gigi Sohn defended her record as a free speech advocate on Wednesday before the Senate Commerce Committee, as Republican lawmakers questioned her ties to a now-defunct streaming service and pressed her on some of her past tweets that criticized Fox News.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 11, 2024
Reddit only handed over the details of one user whose comment mentioned RCN directly, denying the rest to protect users’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech. The court eventually agreed with this defense, concluding that Redditors’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech outweighs the interest of rightsholders.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
By guest blogger Lisa Ramsey , Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law The Supreme Court will likely hold in Elster that Section 2(c) is consistent with the First Amendment, but will it clarify how to balance trademark and free speech rights? After the Supreme Court granted cert in Vidal v.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 24, 2024
Instead, the company objected , arguing that handing over the requested information would violate their users’ right to anonymous speech. This second attempt wasn’t successful either, and Redditors’ right to anonymous speech prevailed once again. In their latest motion to compel, the rightsholders introduce a new angle.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Free Speech L. Deepfakes, Privacy, and Freedom of Speech , Your Witness (Cleveland State Law School blog), June 18, 2021 (comments on Prof. People Who Understand Section 230 Actually Love It , San Jose Mercury-News, Jan. 191 (with Jess Miers). 10, 2021, at A12.
TorrentFreak
JANUARY 30, 2024
So, when Reddit recently defended the anonymous speech of its users in a piracy-related case , arguing that an IP address is “identifying information,” Voltage knew what its response should be. In a reply, the filmmakers counter that sharing the IP addresses of the Reddit users doesn’t violate their anonymous speech rights.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JANUARY 14, 2024
As you can see, it doesn’t depict any obviously illegal activity (though photos like this still make my stomach turn): Facebook quickly cracked down on content promoting the January 6 “rally”/insurrection and issued an emergency news statement : We are appalled by the violence at the Capitol today.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Court Ruling The court says that the mandatory disclosure of editorial policies is compelled speech: “the law requires that social media networks devise and implement a written policy—i.e., .” In response to a constitutional challenge, a federal court preliminarily enjoined the law. 4th 1196, 1210 (11th Cir.
TorrentFreak
JULY 31, 2023
Reddit refused to hand over the details of users who posted ‘less relevant’ comments, arguing that their First Amendment right to anonymous speech outweighs the interests of rightsholders. The court eventually agreed with this defense, concluding that Redditors’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech should be protected.
Michael Geist
OCTOBER 2, 2023
By contrast, the inclusion of registration requirements for a wide range of undertakings, including some podcast services, online news sites, adult content sites, and social media left some characterizing it as a podcast registry or part of “one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes.” So what’s the reality?
TorrentFreak
JUNE 21, 2023
Reddit only handed over the details of one user whose comment mentioned RCN, denying other ‘less relevant’ ones, while citing the users’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech. The court eventually agreed with this defense, concluding that Redditors’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech outweighs the interest of rightsholders.
Michael Geist
MAY 21, 2022
Since its introduction in the House of Commons last month, the Online News Act (Bill C-18) has been debated or discussed just once. ” There has been a total of less than two hours of speeches and debate with just 10 MPs speaking to the bill or asking questions (Bittle and Mark Gerretsen being the only Liberal MPs).
Velocity of Content
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
On Wednesday, Pen America announced that Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle had pledged at least $500,000 for the free-speech organization to combat threats of book bans and educational gag orders across the US. Penguin Random House is the book’s publisher. “In
Likelihood of Confusion
AUGUST 22, 2021
Ethics in the Media: Fake News, Free Speech, Censorship, Libel & Slander - American Law & Talmudic Ethics. The post Ethics in the Media – IJE Seminar appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
There was no nuance to the law enforcement effort to censor speech; it was the raw exercise of government power, coupled with a realistic threat of incarceration for noncompliance. The notion that the long arm of the government—redaction pen in hand—can extend to this sort of incomplete speech is plainly wrong.
IP Tech Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
AJ Press, LLC , the Ninth Circuit affirmed a trademark win for upstart news outfit Punchbowl News. That news splashed a bit of cold water on Punchbowl’s apparent expansion of fair use defenses heralded above. In Punchbowl, Inc. VIP Products LLC. Background. Punchbowl, Inc. Cheese, and Dave & Busters. insider’s perspective.”
The IPKat
APRIL 22, 2024
If you were too busy enjoying the spring sunshine to follow the IP news last week , here's the summary of what you missed. This year, the keynote speech will be delivered by Allan James, Senior Hearing Officer at the UKIPO. Patents A Kat enjoying her time in the sun. Image from Pixabay. This Kat looks forward to seeing you there!
TorrentFreak
JULY 7, 2023
Reddit only handed over the details of one user whose comment mentioned RCN, denying other ‘less relevant’ ones, while citing the users’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech. The court eventually agreed with this defense, concluding that Redditors’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech outweighs the interest of rightsholders.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
VIP Products LLC ] A trademark dispute at the Supreme Court involving a dog chew toy and a famous brand of whisky may have serious implications for trademark and free speech rights. Both types of speech are protected by the First Amendment if they are not fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading.
TorrentFreak
MAY 1, 2023
As such, Reddit only handed over the details of one user whose comment mentioned RCN, denying other ‘less relevant’ ones, citing the users’ First Amendment right to anonymous speech. From the get-go, the Judge said that she was inclined to deny the motion to compel, thereby protecting the Redditors’ right to anonymous speech.
Herbert Smith Freehills
AUGUST 16, 2021
It is complex and fragmented, both globally and by subject matter, making it difficult for technology providers and digital platforms to navigate. Featured content. Last update: Tuesday, 17 August, 2021 - 14:45. Hero Image: 19811.
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