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Jean Paul Gaultier, Birth Your Own Venus

IPilogue

In April 2022 , Uffizi sent a cease-and-desist in response to Jean Paul Gaultier’s current use of the Birth of Venus , but the fashion brand never replied and continued its unauthorized use. . The Italian Code , which came into effect in 2004 and was updated in 2016, operates independently from copyright law.

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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

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. Of course, Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter.

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If copyright law won’t protect small fashion brands against copying, social media will – just ask influencer Danielle Bernstein

JIPEL Copyright Blog

TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016. They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020.

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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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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). Needless to say, it didn’t stop. When Booking didn’t stop, Ryanair sued for five different violations of the CFAA.

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AN ARGUMENT FOR EMBRACING THE LEGALITY OF CROWDFUNDED GAME MODS

JIPL Online

32] RuneLite HD only shut down in the first place due to a cease and desist letter from the publisher. 6] Alex Seedhouse, Pokémon Prism Cancelled After Nintendo Deliver Cease And Desist Letter, Nintendo Insider, (Dec 22, 2016), [link]. [7] Closer analysis is needed to determine if this is actually feasible.

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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. Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook and LinkedIn agreed to divvy up the social media market “between 2013 and 2016.” On the surface, this case follows the fact pattern of nearly all web-scraping cases. Bright Data didn’t stop.

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