Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. Does anyone care?

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

By 2016, JSC had created a well-known market for its high-end furniture—JSC had received awards for its furniture, pieces were highlighted in magazines and on social media, and pieces were regularly featured at furniture trade shows.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 12, 2022

[I’m forestalling more analysis of the Texas social media censorship law until we get some clarity on what happened and what’s next.]. In 2016, I blogged a case where a screenshotted tweet was forwarded by email. ” [Aside: who still does this?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. I’ll keep you posted about the outcome.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

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. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”).

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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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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.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2022

The New-York based cosmetics company reportedly struggled due to competition from other established brands as well as a host of small companies that use social media. Smaller / niche cosmetic brands have noticeably increased even in the Indian social media space.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Princeton Excess & Surplus Lines Ins.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. Tennessee and Kentucky sued it over its marketing practices, such as allegedly overclaiming buyers’ eligibility for tax credits.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 17, 2022

Traditional journalism organizations and digital-native social media networks alike face a formidable challenge—breaking through the cloud of misinformation and overcoming doubt and suspicion. Reprinted with permission. More and more, people trust information less and less. This is true wherever news comes from.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2022

From a few early steps in 2016/2017 and more recently in 2022 , services are being dynamically blocked and many individuals have been arrested for broadcasting or selling access to the league’s games without permission. LaLiga Strikes Again. Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga is now tackling live streaming piracy on all fronts.

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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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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2022

The popular social media app, owned by Chinese-based company ByteDance, has attracted criticism from security experts for excessive data collection since its 2016 debut. According to Carr, TikTok’s history of “surreptitious access of private and sensitive U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

We recently wrote about a case in the Southern District of New York against Mashable relating to the embedding of content from social media platforms like Instagram. The plaintiffs claim that “Instagram has been caught red-handed in its scheme to usurp the value from copyrighted works for its own benefit.”

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, the prevalence of such activities can be seen in online rummy advertisements on social media and the 2013 IPL match-fixing scandal. In May 2016, the first online betting center in Gangtok was inaugurated by Kapil Dev, owned by Golden Gaming International Pvt Ltd. Black, Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.

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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. Social media platforms ought to think twice between reproducing a makeup artist’s work without consent. to their face.

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 24, 2022

From news media and social media to information from friends, family and work, there is never an absence of opinions or material to consume,” she wrote recently for Forbes. “It From 2016 to 2020, the amount of work-related content sharing tripled. The information deluge is real, says Dr. Tracy Brower.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2023

The lawsuit states that De La Cruz’s “distinguishable voice” also has been used without her consent for songs, records, promotions, worldwide concerts, television, radio and social and musical platforms. 1, 2016, Martínez asked De La Cruz to marry him, and they made plans to do so in July 2016.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Within hours of the advert’s release, children’s author Fay Evans (the “claimant”) alleged on social media that the 2019 Advert and an associated book retelling the story (titled Excitable Edgar, “EE”) was unusually similar to a book she had published in 2017 about a dragon that sneezed fire called “Fred the Fire-sneezing Dragon” (“FFD”).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The proposal was presented in two parts: a discussion outlining the government’s intent to regulate social media platforms, and a technical paper outlining details of the proposed law. In fact, the European Commission launched their own “ Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online ” in May 2016.

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Petitioner’s mark had received regional and national attention in niche publications and media, and Petitioner had promoted its mark on a national level, including through trade shows, social media, and the Internet.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moreover, reproductions of a social media post are clearly used for the purposes of reporting on the post where, as here, the reproductions include the accompanying elements of the social media application, such as the frame of the Instagram application and standard Instagram hyperlinks.

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IPilogue

APRIL 26, 2022

EOS applied for the mark’s registration in a black and white colour scheme in 2016. EOS Products (“EOS”), the U.S. Having been refused registration by the examiner due to lack of distinctiveness, EOS pursued multiple appeals all the way up to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”).

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post.

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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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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Firstly, take the example of social media. With the advent of social media, anyone can post anything on it. Recently, the Twitter Account of the Union Minister for Information Technology has been blocked by the social media site for failing to comply with the DMCA Notice. Kind of Copyright Infringement.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Petitioner’s mark had received regional and national attention in niche publications and media, and Petitioner had promoted its mark on a national level, including through trade shows, social media, and the Internet.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. For many UK football fans, Flawless granted access to the sport they love, at a price they could afford.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work.

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Velocity of Content

MAY 2, 2023

The use of real-world evidence (RWE) to support regulatory decision making, such as the approval of new indications for approved drugs, has been given added emphasis by the 21st Century Cures Act (2016). medical records, literature, congress reports, or even social media for patient-reported outcomes).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Following a lawsuit filed by AACS, the decryption licensing group founded by movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, in 2014 a New York court ordered the seizure of DVDFab’s domains, bank funds and social media accounts.

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Likelihood of Confusion

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I want to thank Minnesota CLE for having me on February 16, 2016. I’ve been ’round so long I don’t hardly even know what square is. You can still watch it on video, The post Likelihood of peregrination – Minnesota CLE appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together. Power Ventures, Inc. Facebook v.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. 2016), aff’d, 653 Fed. The song “Heart on my Sleeve” details the emotional trauma of The Weeknd’s breakup with pop star Selena Gomez in a tear jerker that extends just over two minutes. Wozencraft , 15 F.3d

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 11, 2022

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.

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