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Can Tattoos Infringe Copyrights, and If So, What Happens Then?–Sedlik v. Kat Von D

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She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. Nature of Use. It wasn’t possible to use only a portion of the photo to depict melancholy, so I guess the court is saying Kat Von D should have picked a different image altogether? This factor weighs against fair use.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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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.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements.

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1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP)

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Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic. A company used [competitortrademark].com Whole Foods Market Service, Inc.,

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

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In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. The Ninth Circuit ultimately ruled, however, that making and displaying thumbnail images to facilitate an image search engine was a fair use. Supreme Court.