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Intellectual Property Rights for Social Media Influencers

IIPRD

‘Influencer marketing,’ albeit a new word, has emerged as one of the most effective strategies to create money across all industries. A common issue among digital influencers is whether the content they generate is protected by intellectual property rights. Trademarks. Yes, the answer is yes!

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Fresh blow to counterfeiters: they will have to indemnify trademark owners for moral damage, even if they have not sold the counterfeit products

Garrigues Blog

Indemnifiable damage Before this judgment, the prevailing opinion of the provincial appellate courts was to support that where the products reproducing or imitating registered trademarks were not being sold, the owner of intellectual property rights was not entitled to any indemnification as civil liability arising from the committed offense.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. Trademark violation raises significant issues. Cybersquatting is another type of trademark infringement.

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Principal Cynthia Walden and Associate Sarah Kelleher Author World Intellectual Property Review Article “Selling the Intangible in Fashion: What Does It Mean for Trademark Protection?”

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Principal Cynthia Walden and Associate Sarah Kelleher discuss the non-fungible token (NFT) trend across the fashion industry and what this digital arena means for trademark protection and enforcement. Read the full article on World Intellectual Property Review. As technology and art advance, markets are never far behind.

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Use of a trademark as keyword in Google’s Ad Programme amounts to Use and Constitutes Infringement – Delhi High Court

Selvam & Selvam Blog

FAO(OS)(COMM) 2 of 2022), involved a dispute as to whether displaying/ encouraging the use of a registered trademark of the Respondent to display third party’s website links, which were infringing the Respondent’s trademark, amounts to infringement. The Appellants, Google India (P) Ltd., and Agarwal Packers and Movers (P) Ltd.,

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Rise of Social Media: Potential Risks of Trademark Infringement

IIPRD

Trademark; Meaning and need of laws. Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark which is one of the various ways in which intellectual property rights are violated. It also involves deep linking and Meta tagging to exploit the unfair advantage of brand-name or goodwill of the company.

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Can You Trademark A Hashtag?

Kashishipr

They qualify as a metadata tag and aid the user to create, identify, follow, and contribute to a particular conversation or a topic on social networking sites and across other internet applications. Why Take the Trademark Route? The post Can You Trademark A Hashtag? Answer the Big Question. For more visit: [link].

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