TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

law, online service providers need to respond to takedown notices and implement a meaningful policy to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. The company allegedly fails to respond properly to takedown notices and lacks a proper termination policy. As a result, Twitter is reportedly rife with music piracy. .

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

14/2023 Article 1 of decree law provides a comprehensive set of definitions for key terms such as Trading by Modern Technological Means and E-signature. 14/2023 Article 1 of decree law provides a comprehensive set of definitions for key terms such as Trading by Modern Technological Means and E-signature.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The court identifies three components of a wrap analysis: “Conspicuous terms or access to terms: The more likely that the user must at least view, if not read, the terms themselves as a condition of utilizing the website or the product, the more likely that a court will hold that the terms are binding.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

29/2011 Regarding Bank Loans & Other Services Offered to Individual Customers. 3692/2012, outlining the general terms and conditions for loan agreements, providing a framework for both lenders and borrowers. 29/2011 Regarding Bank Loans & Other Services Offered to Individual Customers: Article 2 of Regulation No.

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43(B)log

JUNE 22, 2022

Securranty’s protection plan allegedly continued to state that its obligations under the plan “are guaranteed under a reimbursement insurance policy issued by Plateau Insurance Company” located in Crossville, Tennessee; that the plan in Florida “is directly issued by the insurer. Plaintiffs terminated an agreement to insure Securranty Inc.’s

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 14, 2022

The court explains Dropbox’s 2014 amendment process to add the arbitration clause: Dropbox asserts that it notified users, including Plaintiff, of this change in an email, with hyperlinks leading to the new terms of service and Defendant’s blog, as indicated by differently colored text.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 28, 2022

The Department of Justice recently announced a revision of its policy concerning charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (the “CFAA”). The DOJ’s announced policy, however, now directs that “good-faith security research” should not be charged. the defendant’s conduct consisted of good-faith security research.

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Michael Geist

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

What did you mean by the term “regulate”? What did you mean by the term “regulate” at that time? More troubling is what brings Scott, who supposedly has just six weeks left in his already extended term, back to committee for yet another clarification. would give the CRTC the power to regulate user-generated content.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Recently, the Regional Director of Region 9 of the National Labor Relations Board filed a consolidated complaint alleging that certain restrictive covenants contained in offer letters and policies in an employee handbook violated the National Labor Relations Act.

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Trading Secrets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Recently, the Regional Director of Region 9 of the National Labor Relations Board filed a consolidated complaint alleging that certain restrictive covenants contained in offer letters and policies in an employee handbook violated the National Labor Relations Act.

Confidentiality 52

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Trading Secrets

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An employee had an agreement with a company that placed restrictions on the employee’s ability to solicit or accept business from the company’s customers, to disclose confidential information, and to have competitive employment during the term of employment. Let’s go through the analysis for each provision.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This is unfortunate because those bills can harbor ill-advised policy ideas. Despite its purported goal of helping children, the AADC delivers a “hidden” payload of several radical policy ideas that sailed through the legislature without proper scrutiny. Newsom ) is an example of such a bill.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The resulting state court lawsuit has reinforced the Prager Effect, producing another published opinion thoroughly rejecting every argument advanced by Prager and expanding services’ legal protections for their moderation decisions. YouTube defended on Section 230 and other grounds. YouTube defended on Section 230 and other grounds.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

and banning anti-moonlighting policies. Additionally, the agreement must: Specify the services, roles, industry, or competing entities the employee is restricted from performing work in or on behalf of. Restrict the non-compete agreement to a one year term from the date of separation or a two-year term for medical specialist.

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The IPKat

JUNE 20, 2023

Background The claimant owns EU trade mark Multiselect , registered in 2018 for goods and services in classes 9, 41, and 42, including ‘vocational guidance (education or training advice), education information, installation of computer software, maintenance of computer software, publication of texts and providing online electronic publications’.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2023

Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga has been waging war against pirate sites and services for the past several years. All services face potential ISP blocking under dynamic injunctions , which have flexibility built-in to tackle pirate countermeasures more effectively. Just some of the Video Apps Nominated by LaLiga.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Rightsowner notices of claimed infringements (NOCIs) aren’t verified, and losing Internet access can affect people’s employment, education, engagement with government services, safety, and more. It sounds similar to proximate causation, which is a fancy legal term that also doesn’t have a definitive meaning.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Thirdly, trademarks signify the level of quality attached to a product or service. Moreover, trademarks also add to the brand value of a particular product or service. Secondly, trademark genericide may occur if a proprietor does not give the product or service a unique, non-generic name. Image Source: Gettyimages].

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Olartemoure Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Now, more than ever, we must consider the relevant role that competition authorities and competition policy can play in a vigorous economic bounce-back, both through competition enforcement and competition advocacy. Main panel on competition policy in economic recovery.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 10, 2022

My prior posts on the foundational faults in Bill C-11 focused on the virtually limitless reach of the CRTC’s jurisdictional power over audio-visual services and the risks of treating all audio-visual content as a “program” subject to potential regulation. The Price Waterhouse Coopers report involved a survey of 1,000 U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Nevertheless, Amazon restored his authoring ability based on his promise to comply with its review policies. Jargon watch: this appears to be the first time the term “woketard” has appeared in either the Westlaw or Lexis caselaw databases.] The Conditions and Guidelines expressly provide that Amazon may take these actions.

Contracts 59

Contracts Social Media Publishing Blogging 59

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An employee had an agreement with a company that placed restrictions on the employee’s ability to solicit or accept business from the company’s customers, to disclose confidential information, and to have competitive employment during the term of employment. Let’s go through the analysis for each provision.

Confidentiality 52

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It was written as a precursor to the CCC Town Hall program webinar “Understanding the new UKRI Open Access Policy’’ on UKRI’s Open Access (OA) policy, which took place on Wednesday 27 th October. The long-awaited Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) , the UK’s leading research funder, is here.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In what may seem to be a surprising series of events, given the state’s infamous hostility to restrictive covenants, a California appellate panel recently affirmed a Los Angeles Superior Court judgment effectively enjoining Netflix from soliciting certain employees subject to specific fixed-term employment agreements with Fox. Biogen, Inc.—

Contracts 52

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

With the onset of the trend wherein users are gradually switching to online streaming to meet their music needs and discarding traditional methods such as radio, television, and music CDs, compulsory licensing for the internet was recognized as a key policy issue by the music industry last year. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The 2016 TOS also contained this unilateral amendment provision: Amazon may modify this Agreement, including the Program Policies, at any time by providing notice to you through the Amazon Flex app or otherwise providing notice to you. This case involves “Amazon Flex” drivers. ” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

In what may seem to be a surprising series of events, given the state’s infamous hostility to restrictive covenants, a California appellate panel recently affirmed a Los Angeles Superior Court judgment effectively enjoining Netflix from soliciting certain employees subject to specific fixed-term employment agreements with Fox.

Contracts 52

Contracts Business Marketing Marketing 52

43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

Room 204 Christopher Buccafusco (w/ Joseph Blocher), Firearms, Innovation, and Regulation How do law and markets affect the pace and direction of innovation for firearm related safety in the US? Costly inefficiencies in supply and demand. 1 of 6 police officers shot are shot by an officer’s own gun. Shootings by children, suicides, etc.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

We live in an era where ‘Terms and Conditions’ pop up everywhere – from downloading a new app to starting a new job. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that consumers win only about 9% of the time in forced arbitration.

Contracts 40

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Nelligan Law

JUNE 23, 2023

of the Act that provides as follows: Every person who is an employer commits an offence who, with another employer who is not affiliated with that person, conspires, agrees or arranges (a) to fix, maintain, decrease or control salaries, wages or terms and conditions of employment; or (b) to not solicit or hire each other’s employees.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

This tension between copyright policy and contract law is not new , but developments within and outside the law might put it center stage again. Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The core facts of the case are rather simple.

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Nelligan Law

JUNE 23, 2023

of the Act that provides as follows: Every person who is an employer commits an offence who, with another employer who is not affiliated with that person, conspires, agrees or arranges (a) to fix, maintain, decrease or control salaries, wages or terms and conditions of employment; or (b) to not solicit or hire each other’s employees.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It is worth noting that this is not the only investigation that the CMA has carried out in this context, it has also looked at ‘loyalty penalties’ (an investigation into concerns that long term consumers who stay with their provider can end up paying significantly more than new customers). They can become so-called ‘subscription-traps’.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

3, 2021) SquareTrade sells service contracts for the protection of consumer goods. Plaintiffs argued that SquareTrade’s allegedly secret policy of underpaying its customers violated the principles undergirding both the Consumers Legal Remedies Act, and the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. SquareTrade Inc., 2021 WL 5113176, No.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 25, 2023

In addition to contributing to 35% of the plastic microfibers released into the oceans and 20% of the industrial water pollution, the fashion industry has a negative impact on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions. trillion US dollars and 75 million employees [1]. The drop in garment prices has led us to unnecessary hoarding of clothes.

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Kashishipr

JULY 27, 2022

The term ‘ Intellectual Property (IP) ‘ basically refers to the creations of the human mind that are intangible in nature. In simple terms, it pertains to the original creations of the human intellect, including inventions, symbols, designs, artistic works, literary works, and so on. Now let us define IPRs.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. If you have not done so yet, now is a good time to get started.

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