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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 105: NDP MP Charlie Angus on Canada’s Failed Digital Policy and His Hopes for the Next Parliamentary Session

Michael Geist

NDP MP Charlie Angus has been a consistent – and persistent – voice on digital policies since his election to the House of Commons in 2004. Last week, Angus called a press conference to unveil his six point plan for digital policy, which emphasized accountability, privacy reform, and algorithmic transparency.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme. Does anyone care?

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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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Announcing the 2021 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I’ve now framed it as a note about California’s consumer privacy laws. I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Part 312, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s Regulations. An Introduction to California’s Consumer Privacy Laws (CCPA & CPRA).

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Growth of Virtual Youtubers and IP Complications

IIPRD

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 2d 119 (2d Cir.

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The Dropout: Trade Secrets in Pop Culture

LexBlog IP

In 2004, 19-year-old college sophomore Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University to create a company that would change the world. Employees were discouraged from communicating with each other about their work and were advised not to share the company’s name on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Theranos, Inc.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.