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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. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward.

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False advertising-based antitrust claims against Facebook survive motion to dismiss

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14, 2022) Once in a blue moon, a false advertising-based antitrust claim survives a motion to dismiss in a circuit that imposes a list of excessive requirements on such claims. Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets.

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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

43(B)log

26, 2024) Defendant, d/b/a Wonderland, operated an adult entertainment club and was one of the many such sued by various models for using their images in advertising without their consent from 2015 to 2019. The consent judgment was a lump sum and, Princeton argued, included uncovered claims; most of the images fell within the 2017-18 period.

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Meta’s Anti-Piracy Deal: How Facebook & Broadcasters Kill Live Pirate Streams

TorrentFreak

For reasons that make absolutely no sense while somehow making perfect sense, millions of internet users think that social media platforms are perfect for piracy. Nevertheless, the masses love quick and easy so in common with similar platforms everywhere, social media has a piracy problem.

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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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A blow to image rights?: the Supreme Court rules on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities

Garrigues Blog

Consequently, the Supreme Court has confirmed the previous judgment by the Madrid Appellate Court, which was appealed by the sponsor of the festival, ordering it to pay compensation of 20,000 euros, and to partially publish the judgment in a media outlet in print and on two social media outlets. The Supreme Court’s opinion.

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Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? How the Music Industry Can Fight Back Against Generative AI

LexBlog IP

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. Data Privacy Data privacy may eventually create a path to protection but this will not come easy. And state or federal laws are unlikely to restrict use of publicly available songs on privacy grounds. ” White v.

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