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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme.

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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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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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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

The UK IPO has launched a public consultation on the post-implementation review of Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, regarding whether the 2016 amendments achieved their objectives. Registration is open until July 10. The call for views is open until August 31.

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Tracking the AI Act: Part 1 – How the EU is thinking about regulating the AI sector

LexBlog IP

Compliance with the regulatory framework will be assessed by accredited third party “ conformity assessment bodies ”, which will in turn be designated and monitored by designated Member State authorities. Annex II provides a list of related EU legislation, generally concerning certain product safety standards (e.g.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Legal Implications of IPR Protection ‘In The Cloud’: an Indian Analysis

IIPRD

Surveillance and analysis of IP-related activities on the internet, such as domain name registration, web crawling, social media monitoring, and online marketplace scanning which can help detect potential IP infringement cases, such as cybersquatting, phishing, counterfeiting, piracy, and plagiarism. 299, 33 I.L.M.