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EU Commission Encourages Use of New Anti-Piracy Toolbox

TorrentFreak

Good practices should be identified, and recommended to all actors, including e-commerce marketplaces, transport and logistic service providers, payment services providers, social media providers, providers of domain name services, etc. Secondly, further cooperation and information sharing should be encouraged.

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BitTorrent is No Longer the ‘King’ of Upstream Internet Traffic

TorrentFreak

Back in 2004, in the pre-Web 2.0 Most pirate sites today are streaming-based and BitTorrent lost pretty much all of its ‘market share’ there too. The latest data show that video and social media are the leading drivers of downstream traffic, accounting for more than half of all fixed access and mobile data worldwide.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. StopTheSADScheme.

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Ninth Circuit Concludes Direct Copying Can Be Evidence of “Secondary Meaning” for Trade Dress Infringement 

LexBlog IP

The court concluded that JSC’s unique designs acquired secondary meaning in the eyes of consumers in the furniture market, particularly because of Trendily’s copying, and possessed protectable trade dress. It began selling its uniquely decorative “weathered-teak” furniture to exclusive retailers in 2004.

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Announcing the 2022 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Social Media. eBay (2d Cir.).

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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. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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5th Cir affirms fair use on a motion to dismiss, fee award to D

43(B)log

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. NXIVM Corp.