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2023 Quick Links: Social Media

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

” BBC : Facebook’s growth not linked to psychological harm, study finds * Science : How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? We investigated the effects of Facebook’s and Instagram’s feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. Kallinen v.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Regulators have sought to suppress online targeted advertising for years, with only minimal success. In turn, advertisers have fled Twitter. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It has opened wide range of facilities for us like entertainment, education, advertisements, communication etc. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Kim cartoon and Ors.,

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My “Summer” 2022 Activities

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. NetChoice LLC v.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Callahan v. Section 230. ” (Tautology alert).

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A blow to image rights?: the Supreme Court rules on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities

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. The Supreme Court’s opinion.

Personality Rights

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Moment Marketing and its legal implications

Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The power of the internet, in particular that of social media is humungous. When used strategically, social media becomes one of the most powerful tools of digital marketing. With the evolution of social media, the concept of moment marketing has also become increasingly common.

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Google Should Ban Pirate Sites, Say Authors John Grisham & Scott Turow

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. Whois Privacy Corp., Curious as to how such a lawsuit might progress, we monitored every filing in the case.

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Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?–Meta v. BrandTotal

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create. ” Click on the image to see the animation.

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Another Example of How “Notice and Explanations” Requirements are a Liability Trap–Shared v. Facebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Finally, in October 2020, Facebook nuked the Shared account (and the personal accounts of some of its employees) and blocked Shared’s ads. Cod § 17200, for failing to provide sufficient details regarding ad rejections in violation of the Advertising Policies. & Prof.

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You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. The following is some recent FTC guidance to consider when referencing AI in your advertising. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

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You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. The following is some recent FTC guidance to consider when referencing AI in your advertising. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

Social Media

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You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. The following is some recent FTC guidance to consider when referencing AI in your advertising. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

Social Media

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WIPIP 2022, Session 3 (ROP/TM, (c) fair use)

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Influence of law, desire to contract, social norms. Industries: advertising, merchandising, movies/TV, and video games. Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content.

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FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v. Twitter

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Anti-TikTok Political Stunts Fail in Montana and Indiana Courts

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular, in 2020, the Trump administration tried to ban TikTok and WeChat. The state pretextually claimed this was an attempt to prevent China from siphoning off American private data, but the law was not a privacy initiative at all. Those efforts all failed in court (see links at the bottom of this post).

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FTC’s 19th Public Commission Meeting – Some Drama and Some 6(b) Studies

LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

Over the years, the FTC has issued many 6(b) studies, ranging from the annual studies of cigarette and tobacco marketing to a 2021 study on internet service provider privacy issues to a 2018 study on mobile security issues. Second, the substance Two items were on the agenda today, and they both involve FTC 6(b) studies.

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Trump Defeats Lawsuit Over Manipulated Viral Video He Tweeted–Cisneros v. Cook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 14, 2021

” Finally, the court says the manipulated video wasn’t an advertisement because it didn’t solicit patronage of any particular good or service. Cook , 157550/2020 (N.Y. I’ll have more to say about that in my forthcoming paper on online account terminations and content removals. Case citation : Cisneros v.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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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2023 Quick Links: Social Media

2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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My “Summer” 2022 Activities

Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

A blow to image rights?: the Supreme Court rules on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities

Moment Marketing and its legal implications

Google Should Ban Pirate Sites, Say Authors John Grisham & Scott Turow

Can Facebook Stop Data Snarfers?–Meta v. BrandTotal

Another Example of How “Notice and Explanations” Requirements are a Liability Trap–Shared v. Facebook

You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

You Don’t Need a Machine to Predict What the FTC Might Do About Unsupported AI Claims

WIPIP 2022, Session 3 (ROP/TM, (c) fair use)

FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v. Twitter

Anti-TikTok Political Stunts Fail in Montana and Indiana Courts

FTC’s 19th Public Commission Meeting – Some Drama and Some 6(b) Studies

Trump Defeats Lawsuit Over Manipulated Viral Video He Tweeted–Cisneros v. Cook

2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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