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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. StopTheSADScheme.

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LulaNO: The Legal Future of Multi-Level Marketing Companies

LexBlog IP

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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Nigerian Advertising Regulator Tackling Meta

IP and Legal Filings

While stakeholders and experts struggled to comprehend this ban, on October 5, 2022, word spread that Nigeria’s Federal Government had sued Meta over marketing and was seeking 30 billion naira (about 70 million dollars). Like many other industries, the advertising industry has been greatly impacted by the digital age.

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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. See generally, Christopher A.

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Long “Rhode” Ahead, Hailey Bieber

IPilogue

Rhode-NYC is a fashion brand founded by two women entrepreneurs Purna Khatau and Phoebe Vickers in 2014, whereas Hailey Bieber’s Rhode skin launched in June 2022 during an era of celebrity brands. Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand.

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ISP Linked to Premier League & La Liga Piracy Arrests Clears Up App “Confusion”

TorrentFreak

PAP Targets Local ISP PAP describes itself on social media platforms as a “multi-sectoral Coalition, of local and international Associations, Societies & Companies, representing Thousands of Creatives in Kenya and the World.” Kamunya about his Able Wireless business plan is available on YouTube.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property as a Complex Adaptive System

The IPKat

Online music platforms, such as on-demand content services or social media platforms, created disparities in the remuneration of right-holders, creating the so-called “value gap”. The EU intervened with Directive 2014/26/EU and Directive (EU) 2019/790. The book closes with Chapter 9, written by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss.