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It’s Not Going to Be (Y)easy: What Happens when Business Collaborations Dissolve?

IPilogue

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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

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Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. Houston, Inc., 4th 274 (5th Cir.

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Form “Non-Disparagement” Clause Violated Consumer Review Fairness Act–State v. Ideal Horizon Benefits

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. At the time of passage, I’m not sure how many businesses were actually using contracts to control their customers’ reviews, but it was a growing trend.

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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. Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. See generally, Christopher A.

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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

But before they get there, these courts must first decide whether AA’s terms and conditions constitutes a valid and enforceable contract, and whether TPG assented to its terms. dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality. Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. Do the streaming services allow users to make copies and is this type of software legal?

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