TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

Activision Investigation Has Been Running Since 2017. According to new filings with the court, Activision’s investigation into EngineOwning has been live since 2017. In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. Activision Subpoenas… Everything.

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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

million followers on Instagram, was allegedly making “ seven figures ” as of 2017, and has a book on the New York Times bestseller list (Tik Tok commenters would remind you, however, that her listing had a dagger next to it). Danielle Bernstein is a 28-year-old New York City influencer and founder of the brand We Wore What (“WWW”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 23, 2023

On Thursday, SCOTUS sided with Twitter on a content liability claim, ruling that Twitter was not culpable for the 2017 Istanbul shooting by connecting ISIS-affiliated accounts. Will the courts strike down those regulations? If not, the Internet is doomed. What were you expecting?

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mid-June 2017 and in the wake of a lawsuit filed in the United States by broadcaster DISH Network, TVAddons – the largest third-party Kodi add-on repository at the time – disappeared from the Internet. All signs pointed to the events being connected but by August 2017, a bigger picture was emerging.

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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. 493 (2017); Courtney J.

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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.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton argued that (1) no coverage was available for claims during the 2017 to 18 Policy Period; (2) Wonderland breached the insurance contract by agreeing to the Consent Judgment in violation of the cooperation and non-assignment clauses; and (3) the Consent Judgment was unreasonable, and thus unenforceable, as a matter of law.

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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. v Sarita Manufacturing Co., 1997 PTC 394.

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The TTABlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Andrusiek's "actual" trademark use on comic books did not begin until 2017, but from 2006 he used the term as the name of a character, which the Board accepted as use analogous to trademark use, leading to the award of priority to Andrusiek. Andrusiek's identical mark, for which he claimed prior use for comic books.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

2017); Parker v. 16, 2017); Richard v. Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? 3d 938, 952-53 (N.D. PayPal, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The DOJ stirred up some chatter when it announced that it was defending Section 230’s constitutionality in Trump’s lawsuits against the social media services. 2017); Parker v. 16, 2017). I wasn’t sure why so many people were buzzing about the move. 3d 938, 952-53 (N.D. 2020), aff’d , 851 F. PayPal, Inc.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 3, 2023

ByteDance also claims other social media companies collect far more user data than does TikTok, yet aren’t being threatened with bans. Since 2017, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which investigates foreign investments in U.S. Concerns about TikTok have existed for years.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2021

We all have our gripes about social media, but the biggest one for creators who rely upon the platforms to distribute their content is that they’re helping those companies more than they’re benefiting themselves. But creators are left with little recourse if they want access to the wider audience that social media provides.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content. LinkedIn Corp.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2024

Though the term “rose gold” is commonly used today, references to “red gold” continue; from 2001 to 2017, the Wristwatch Annual included more than 1,300 references to “red gold” by fifty-three different watchmakers.” ” Plaintiff alleged that it has used the mark RED GOLD on watches since 1989.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In late October, Facebook announced that it would change its name to Meta , signaling a shift of the social media giant’s focus toward the metaverse , a virtual space where social media, gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, and cryptocurrencies converge and allow people to interact virtually with one another.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Image: Easy Life's Life's A Beach tour poster as included in documents submitted to the High Court Easy Life , the band, formed in 2017, three years before easyGroup filed its registration. Interestingly, the second, filed 10 September 2021, [UK00003692922] is currently opposed [OP000429904]. 7 on the UK Albums Chart a day after its release.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facebook also implemented filters for video content following the “freebooting” controversies of 2015 and 2017. It has the oldest demographics of the major social media networks and much of that is because so little of the content on it is original or fresh. This included both on Instagram and Facebook.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Hanagami first sued Epic in March 2022 over the Fortnite emote “ It’s Complicated ,” which Hanagami claims is an unauthorized copy of the choreography he published for the 2017 song “ How Long” by Charlie Puth. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The court split on the second and third fair use factors. Odds and Ends.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. That’s what Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guard did in 2017, on Twitter, to under 1000 followers, crediting Bell. But that’s not plausible.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright holders’ complaints. One of the rejected notices was sent by someone who tried to have a post removed from a subreddit dedicated to “ snarking ” social media influencers.

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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. Breitbart News Network LLC in which U.S.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 9, 2022

The protests were targeted at Vladimir Putin so, in return, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) made requests to local social media giant vKontakte to begin blocking opposition groups on the basis they were trying to organize a revolution. A fight for control of the online narrative began.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. However, both shadow libraries remained online and continue to operate to this day. The request isn’t limited to IPFS gateways, of course.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

This came to a head in 2017 when the filmmaker Rick Allen sued the State of North Carolina over alleged illegal copying of footage he shot of Blackbeard’s sunken ship. So, if you haven’t done so yet, take a moment to either follow this site on social media or sign up for the newsletter using the links in the sidebar.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

If plaintiffs win cases like this, the obvious implication would be that if social media services can’t prevent all instances of CSAM, they should shut down entirely.] This ruling provides a clear roadmap for Section 230’s resolution to many pending claims against social media. Citing Doe v.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Development of Genshin Impact began in 2017 and when it launched in 2020 utilizing a free-to-play model, a development budget of $100 million was on the line. In recent comments on social media, Ubatcha revealed that Discord had issued a warning over leaks being posted on the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor channel.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Accrual: There’s a five-year statute of limitations for false patent marking; Qingdao identified eight social media posts from Dec. 1, 2017 to Apr. 11, 2023 (claiming that various products were “patented”).

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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. United Kingdom Gambling Act, Amitav Ranjan & Mihir Vasavda, Sports Ministry lays ground for making onling betting legal , THE INDIAN EXPRESS, (July 16, 2017), [link] legal-4752604/.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether launching their own collections , purchasing an expensive profile pic , or simply endorsing new artists , celebrities have embraced blockchain technology and have been extolling the virtues of owning a unique digital collectible across their social media platforms. So what’s the harm?

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