Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. Musk has bridged that gap. StopTheSADScheme. It’s not a tax.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Unauthorised use of someone’s identity is a violation of both their personality rights and their basic right to privacy. The Court rejected the privacy defence, which is often employed in IP proceedings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

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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