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Right of Publicity Part 2

IP and Legal Filings

First Part Right of Publicity Published on Mondaq. the Apex Court held that one of the inherent aspects of the right to privacy as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution is the right to prevent others from using the person’s name or likeness without his consent for advertising or non-advertising purposes.

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Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The only question at issue is whether the lawsuit treats Facebook’s refusal as a publisher/speaker action. That is a quintessential publishing decision for which Facebook is “perforce immune.” In our Advertising & Marketing Law casebook, Prof. Google ruling from 2007. Tushnet and I include the Langdon v.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Regulators have sought to suppress online targeted advertising for years, with only minimal success. In turn, advertisers have fled Twitter. Then, in Liapes v. seriously, are you still posting THERE???)

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Paying for the News

Velocity of Content

In 2020, digital advertising spending worldwide amounted to US$378 billion — with online platforms Google and Facebook together owning half the market or about $190 billion. Meanwhile, news organizations and other publishers have watched the rise of this duopoly with increasing distress. So what’s a news publisher to do?

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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

The ad, which was produced by the London-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi, featured prominent Hong Kong actor and musician Andy Lau Tak-wah as he delivered a monologue about Xiaoman, the eighth solar term and second solar term of summer on the traditional Chinese calendar. Video can be reduced to a script, a song to lyrics, etc.

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Is The Server Test Ready for a Reboot?

The IP Law Blog

Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post. In September, U.S. District Judge Charles R.

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Police Piracy Blacklist: UK Govt. Wants to Know Who’s Still Funding Pirate Sites

TorrentFreak

Warning of potential prosecutions for offenses under the Fraud Act 2006, Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, and even the Serious Crimes Act 2007, PIPCU suggests shutting down as an alternative. Total IWL domains that have advertising on them. ” Welcome to the Blacklist. More than 6,000 Domains Have Ever Appeared on the IWL.