IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The use of interactive face filters on social media platforms complements this integration of face detecting technology into our daily lives. With tech becoming ever more sophisticated, users can now opt to express themselves with filters that seamlessly blend vibrant eyeshadow or sparkly lipstick designs (among many others!)

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Social Media Intellectual Property Copyright Designs 111

TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

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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Social Media Advertising Advertising Copyright 129

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

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.

Social Media 78

Social Media Contracts Ownership Business 78

The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The TTAB has re-designated as precedential its September 2022 opinion in this cancellation proceeding. 92064830 (September 6, 2022) [re-designated as precedential, January 4, 2024] (Opinion by Judge Frances S. The CAFC affirmed the Board's decision on October 19, 2023 [ TTABlogged here ]]. Andrusiek v. Cosmic Crusaders LLC and Lewis J.

Registration 75

Registration Trademark Social Media Designs 75

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. Allegations of “general awareness” are not enough. Buzzfeed, Inc. 2022 WL 16555584 (S.D.N.Y.

Copyright 91

Copyright Social Media Copyright Infringement Publishing 91

Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation. This raises the question: does the press publishers’ right apply to social media? While social media were not explicitly singled out, they seem to comfortably fall within the ISSP definition. Do social media make content available?

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Social Media Publishing Art Copying 142

The IPKat

JULY 4, 2021

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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Intellectual Property Journalism Social Media Intellectual Property Law 70

The TTABlog

APRIL 28, 2022

The Board dismissed Kate Spade LLC's opposition to registration of the mark WOLV & Design (shown below left) for watches, finding the mark to be too dissimilar to the KATE SPADE word mark and the "spade logo" mark (below right) to support opposer's Section 2(d) likelihood-of-confusion and its Section 43(c) dilution-by-blurring claims.

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Designs Design Social Media Registration 68

TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

The DMCA also makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that is “primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner.”

Copying 114

Copying Social Media Licensing Technology 114

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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. 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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Cease and Desist Blogging Contracts Social Media 120

The IPKat

JUNE 6, 2022

CIVC also argued that GB is taking unfair advantage of the reputation of the PDO “Champagne”, and asked the court to order GB to cease use of all logos and advertisement documents with “Champanillo” sign, to cancel the registration for the domain name “champanillo.es” and close all social media accounts with this name.

Social Media 128

Social Media Advertising Advertising Designs 128

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. 1: The Shepard Fairey Dispute.

Fair Use 230

Fair Use Non-Fungible Tokens Copyright Social Media 230

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). As a practical matter, the answer is certainly yes; an open system is built into the design of the internet.

Blogging 95

Blogging Copying Social Media Copyright 95

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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.

Technology 52

Technology Designs Design Social Media 52

The IPKat

MARCH 27, 2022

A very popular design of one of these boots is based on a traditional Spanish riding boot - the Regina boot or Heeled Regina - which looks like the below (and for a closer look click here ). Although their products have the "country" look and feel about them, the products aren't designed for serious country wear.

Designs 52

Designs Design Copying Art 52

LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But Lady Gaga is nonetheless a creation: After dropping out, she began transforming herself from Germanotta into Lady Gaga, whose style combined glam rock and over-the-top fashion design. Now social media has allowed for PSRs with reality TV celebrities, Instagram influencers, and the like.

Copyright 52

Copyright Social Media Plagiarism Fair Use 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Power Ventures was a 2016 case involving Facebook (back when the company itself was still known as Facebook). Power Ventures was a platform that attempted to enable users to manage all their social media accounts from one platform. That’s not what the statute is designed to prevent. –RyanAir v.

Blogging 85

Blogging Cease and Desist Business Litigation 85

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Applicant’s POTIFY platform is designed to permit legal marijuana dispensaries to market and sell their products, including via mobile applications and websites. Alpha Phi Omega , 118 USPQ2d 1289, 1298 (TTAB 2016) (quoting 15 U.S.C. § Spotify AB , 2022 USPQ2D 37 at *13–14. Spotify AB , 2022 USPQ2D 37 at *21.

Television 40

Television Music Advertising Advertising 40

Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

But for famed wedding dress designer, Hayley Paige Gutman, she certainly is ruing the Second Circuit’s recent decision to revive its 1999 holding of Ticor Title Ins. While the contract was originally to run through 2016, the parties extended the agreement through August 1, 2022. Cohen , 173 F.3d 3d 63 (2d Cir. In JLM Couture, Inc.

Social Media 59

Social Media Contracts Confidentiality Business 59

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Other examples: design patent, as Sarah Burstein has writte n. We know that automated systems designed to flag infringements get lots of false positives b/c they can’t recognize fair use; may also be false negatives, though that’s not the focus. NYU Press, 2016). The judge isn’t hearing that they’re not counterfeiters.

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Fair Use Branding Brands Branding 45

Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Still, having already designated Warhol’s “Soup Cans” a paradigmatic example of transformative use just two terms ago in Google v. And AWF used it to license an image of Warhol’s Orange Prince to Condé Nast in 2016. Drop me a note in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

Fair Use 92

Fair Use Licensing Copying Artwork 92

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

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.

Copying 103

Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 103

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s app was first released in 2014 for the iPhone and Pebble watch as a metric-tracking cycling app that was designed to “track speed, distance, altitude, and grade.” But the app was not updated after 2016 and was removed from WCT’s website. The court grants summary judgment on lack of likely confusion.

Marketing 59

Marketing Marketing Trademark Branding 59

Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Within just over a month, a raft of barely-underground Discord servers like AI Hub have popped up to provide users with access to software—and step-by-step instructions—for creating new songs using hundreds of community-made AI models designed to mimic specific artists’ voices. ” VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone , 824 F.3d

Music 87

Music Copyright Copying Copyright Law 87

Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Starting from those technical definitions, the notion of portability made its way into the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In combination with the legislative design and other uncertainties about its modalities of exercise, these characteristics have caused the GDPR portability to have limited success in practice.

IP 94

IP Contracts Social Media Copying 94

IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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.

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property IP Government Technology 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Only the State Labor Court of Baden-Württemberg depicted the relevant emoji in its ruling of 22 June 2016 (involving the monkey/bear face emoji depicted below); but it referred to them as “emoticons.” Some courts provide their own characterizations, such as “[laughing emoji],” “[sad emoji],” “[skull emoji],” and “middle finger emoji.”

Blogging 79

Blogging Social Media Publishing Reporting 79

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

It derives from a paper given at the 25 th Anniversary celebration of IViR on 4 July 2014 and at the University of Oxford IP Moot “converzatione” on 18 March 2016. Indeed, social media is replete with collections of ‘unusual’ penalty kicks. Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021.

Copyright 102

Copyright Intellectual Property Social Media Law 102

SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Syngenta Limited vs Controller Of Patents And Designs on 13 October, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court responded to the questions on divisional applications referred to it by the Single Judge earlier. POI Social Media Pvt. Tejaswini writes on this development.

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Due Diligence Invention IP Copyright 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook and LinkedIn agreed to divvy up the social media market “between 2013 and 2016.” — The thing that binds these two cases together is that both seem designed to build off the 9th Circuit’s reasoning in the hiQ Labs, Inc. If there is a next round. LinkedIn Corp.

Blogging 103

Blogging Cease and Desist Contracts Marketing 103

Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The humanized skeleton figure on the left is Skully, which artist and entrepreneur Gregory Spiers first conceived while designing a T-shirt for the Lithuanian Olympic basketball team. The humanized skeleton figure on the right is Curly, a character designed for Scholastic’s popular “Goosebumps” series of books.

Copyright 144

Copyright Cinema Copying Copyright Infringement 144

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court noted that the Patents Act is specifically designed to deal with matters concerning allegations of unreasonable conditions in licence agreements, abuse of one’s status as a patentee, the necessary inquiry into these allegations, and eventually the relief that can be granted. Controller of Patents & Designs Patent Office Mumbai.

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IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 124

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” “whenever you write about the Internet, no matter what the AP says, capitalize it, because if I had to point to a moment in a time when it all started to go wrong, it was when AP said––I think in 2016––that you could now lowercase the Internet. ” Brad Smith and Mary Snapp. ” Sen.

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Journalism Government Technology Privacy 100

LexBlog IP

JUNE 21, 2023

As the holiday approached this year, it seemed the term “Juneteenth” was everywhere – in broadcast and local media, in advertisements and on social media. This mark subsequently registered in 2016 without issue. Some further digging quickly led me to find the answer. ” Id.

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Registration Trademark Trademark Law Law 52

IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

General purpose AI system” means an AI system that can be used in and adapted to a wide range of applications for which it was not intentionally and specifically designed. Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content. Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training.

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Social Media Marketing Marketing Government 52

LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

An AI system is now defined as “ a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that can, for explicit or implicit objectives, generate outputs such as predictions, recommendations, or decisions that influence physical or virtual environments.”

Government 52

Government Designs Design Law 52

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) acknowledges that AI could be used to modernize the crucial steps of clinical trial conduct-study design, planning, and execution. The below chart shows AI and Life Science patent filings by Technology (“Tech”) Center over time from 2000 to 2022, where we see a spike in activity in post-2016.

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Intellectual Property IP Technology Privacy 52