Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Bloggers often pay attention to issues that are too niche-y or esoteric for mainstream media coverage, and bloggers can provide expert commentary and repositories of source materials on fast-moving topics. Publishing these materials can create substantial legal risk for research-focused bloggers, including the risk of copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This type of scheme (often labeled ‘copyright trolling’ due to the generation of revenue through strategic litigation) exists in many countries around the world. In the UK, for example, many copyright holders have tested the waters in the past, sometimes with significant controversy. That now appears to be the case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Plaintiff discovered the use of his photos in articles covering the following topics: “FemSkin”. Chip Stewart covers the phenomenon of suing over CC licenses here: “ Beware the Copyleft Trolls “ It’s an issue that has gotten the attention of the Creative Commons community itself, which is considering ways to address it.).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Though it won’t be the final word on the topic, the decision gives us more insights into the Copyright Office’s thinking on the matter. First, it raises troubling weaponization/trolling possibilities. Emojis and Intellectual Property , a brief and breezy survey of the topic. Copyright Office ].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Still, I prefer it when judges rely on Section 230(c)(1) to take the “good faith” topic off the table entirely. Facebook Still Isn’t Obligated to Publish Russian Troll Content–FAN v. ” Contract Breach/Promissory Estoppel. First Voters Reject Tulsi Gabbard, Then a Judge Does–Gabbard v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

So maybe an interesting topic to consider is if Wikipedia is the model for a high-quality output of online community and user-generated content.” But, over time, these spaces have become playgrounds for trolls. What’s important is the reputation of Wikipedia. For a period, the bad actors could be managed or minimized.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion tackles one of the hottest topics in Internet Law: do UGC services engage in editorial functions protected by the First Amendment? The most likely parties to take advantage of this access right are bad-faith actors like spammers and trolls, and it would be socially wasteful to treat them like legitimate users.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

” However, when considered alongside Gilley’s pro-colonialism work, the phrase could seem like a troll/sealion designed to question whether people should be treated equally. The court implies stabin might have characterized Gilley’s response as off-topic, though that wouldn’t be a viewpoint-neutral position.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

But unless AWF could paint Goldsmith as a copyright “troll” (which didn’t fit the facts), she was always going to have a David-versus-Goliath story to tell. Barton Beebe’s empirical work on this topic. By suing first, AWF made it much easier to argue that Goliath had picked a fight with David. In the first, Sony Corp.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 8, 2022

Facebook Still Isn’t Obligated to Publish Russian Troll Content–FAN v. First Voters Reject Tulsi Gabbard, Then a Judge Does–Gabbard v. YouTube Isn’t a State Actor (DUH)–PragerU v. Vimeo Defeats Lawsuit for Terminating Account That Posted Conversion Therapy Videos–Domen v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

For more on the topic of newspapers correcting their Section 230 coverage, see this post. As Section 230 became a mainstream topic and a partisan talking point for both parties, there was a flood of newcomers to the Section 230 field. Remember these terrible and repetitive NYT corrections?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“the Platforms permit any user who agrees to their boilerplate terms of service to communicate on any topic, at any time, and for any reason. Instead, it requires these clinics to disclose information about state-sponsored services—including abortion, anything but an ‘uncontroversial’ topic.” ” This is demonstrably false.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 7, 2023

NY Times : How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step. This can be particularly challenging when this uncertainty is prolonged, and the topic has no clear authority. Censorship. Wired : China Is Tightening Its Grip on Big Tech. * NY Times : ‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future. *

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