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Hacked Off at Facebook

The Illusion of More

After criticizing the worst effects of social media for over 10 years, I was finally hacked, locked out of my Facebook account, and (I assume) will be unable to restore any of the material or connections going back to 2007. Well, it finally happened.

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Hashtags And Trademark

IP and Legal Filings

Today’s world is growing so fast and we humans are becoming completely dependent upon the technology If you’ve spent any length of time on any social media site in the previous few years, you’ll recognise three facts. For starters, social media is become an essential marketing platform for the majority of firms.

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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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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

Turnitin launched in 2000, Audible Magic began providing a similar service for audio files in 2002 and YouTube’s Content ID System debuted in 2007. That’s why, in all of these cases, the copying was first detected by the public, who went on to point out the issue and create a controversy both on social media and the broader internet.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 Winners of the Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize

IPilogue

Intellectual Property class in the Fall 2007 term and has been generously sponsored each year since then by? Our stories also delve into related areas including: internet law, privacy rights, broadcasting, social media and free speech. . Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize? Professor Pina D’Agostino ’s?Intellectual

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Intellectual Property Protections of Olympic Proportions: A Look at Tokyo 2020

IPilogue

Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic Marks Act (OPMA) was enacted in 2007 and includes a list of 39 protected Olympics-related marks in Schedule 1. Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content.

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Announcing the 2020-2021 Winners of the Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize

IPilogue

The Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize (the “Gowling WLG IPilogue Prize”) was pioneered in Professor Pina D’Agostino ’s Intellectual Property class in the Fall 2007 term and has been generously sponsored each year since then by Gowling WLG, formerly Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.

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