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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

TPG aggregates and collects information from the most prominent rewards programs and provides a series of rankings and recommendations designed to help maximize your rewards points. On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. Thus, the Points Guy.

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Watch Communications Sues Ex-Employees for Alleged Trade Secret Misappropriation

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

While Watch has sent cease and desist letters to each of the co-defendants, they have allegedly not ceased their unlawful activities. Watch is suing for false designation of origin and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. and the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, 18 U.S.C. Code § 24-2-3-1 et seq.

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Does the CFAA Help Airlines Control Their Distribution Channels?–RyanAir v. Booking (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. Power Ventures was a 2016 case involving Facebook (back when the company itself was still known as Facebook). That’s not what the statute is designed to prevent. Needless to say, it didn’t stop. hiQ Labs II at 43.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Copyright contract law (Sections 31 et seqq. In another decision , from 2016, the BGH found that remuneration claims under Section 32 UrhG arise when the agreed remuneration at the time of the respective contract being concluded is not appropriate when viewed from the perspective of the time of conclusion of the contract (ex-ante view).

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After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop. Much digital ink has been spilled on online contract formation; much less on online contract termination. Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook and LinkedIn agreed to divvy up the social media market “between 2013 and 2016.” LinkedIn Corp.

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