Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Neutron – Technology & Marketing Law Blog [link] 2020-04-26 Changes Result in the Alberta Electronic Transactions Act Applying to Employment and Other Records [link] 2020-04-26 Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail (OUCH)-Wilson v.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Evidently, controlling and exploiting personal music data is valuable; however, trends in global privacy law relating to personal data protection and personal privacy rights threaten to reduce widespread accessibility to this resource. The GDPR and the CCPA’s stance on privacy law impacts every aspect of this process.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This growing trend reflects a broader effort to closely examine and mitigate the market power held by these corporate giants. Abuse of dominant position, in the context of antitrust and competition law, refers to the improper and anti-competitive practices undertaken by a company that holds a dominant market position.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Grey marketing typically consists of a retailer purchasing genuine branded products abroad for less than offered to them from a local distributor. Grey marketing is generally problematic for international brand owners, who may end up competing against their own products thereby losing control of how the brand is represented to customers.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

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. But what exactly is moment marketing? However, the concept of moment marketing is not new.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

You might also check out (1) my Internet Law course page , which includes 24 years of syllabi and old exams with sample answers, (2) my article on “ Teaching Cyberlaw ,” (3) my blog post on teaching Internet Law as an online-only course , and (4) my Canvas modules for the 2020 online-only course. Weis Markets. Review: 16 C.F.R.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. Despite these obvious issues, the privacy community has been conspicuously quiet about age authentication. Musk has bridged that gap. TikTok bans.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Today, Apple has about a 15% market share of the global smartphone market, with more than 1 billion iPhone users. Nevertheless, it continued to comply with the DPLA and, in 2020, renewed the DPLA but sought a “side letter” trying to modify some of its terms. Apple rejected this attempt to modify the DPLA.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2022

In 2015, the chief judge at Finland’s Market Court questioned whether the system had the resources to cope but that didn’t deter those seeking to turn piracy into profit. The Market Court ruled that the subscribers should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Initial Victory For Internet Subscribers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Rulemaking , May 2022. Books and Academic Articles.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 1, 2022

The platform, which has a strong privacy focus, is now the go-to file storage platform for millions of people. For example, in the first quarter of 2020 Mega received ‘just’ 264,483 takedown notices. A year after Megaupload was shut down, Kim Dotcom launched a brand new file-hosting service called Mega.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In October 2020, the user posted 6 tweets attacking Brian Sheth , a private equity billionaire, that included photos “depicting a woman or portions of a woman’s body.” 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright, E-Commerce, Advertising). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Other actions you can take (but calling your elected officials is always the most impactful): [link] noearnitact.org and [link] act.eff.org/action/stop-th e-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy. 2020 blog post. The post A Twitter Thread on the EARN IT Act appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. More reading: My Aug.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In 2020, California passed a law, called the Automatic Renewal Law, that mandates affirmative consent and clear and conspicuous disclosures for automatically renewed payment programs. 14, 2020, No. 20-cv-02448- BLF) 2020 WL 5517172 at *6; Feld v. 3, 2020) 442 F.Supp.3d 9, 2021, No. 484; Allen v. Shutterfly, Inc.

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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. In these cases the Authors Guild says that pressure needs to be applied to search engines including market leader Google.

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IIPRD

APRIL 28, 2023

While the goal of IPR law is to preserve inventors’ rights over their creations, the goal of competition law is to maintain effective market competition by prohibiting anti-competitive acts and the misuse of dominant positions. Competition (Amendment) Bill, Section 4A, 2020: Good or Bad?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

million devices were seized and destroyed in 2020-2021, although a lucky few were repurposed in schools, hospitals, even police cars. For owners of devices set for the market or even sitting at home, Anatel has just issued a reminder that illegal set-top boxes are punishable with a fine. A reported 1.5 Most recent actions below).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2023

” Today, Apple has about a 15% market share of the global smartphone market, with more than 1 billion iPhone users. Nevertheless, it continued to comply with the DPLA and, in 2020, renewed the DPLA but sought a “side letter” trying to modify some of its terms. Apple rejected this attempt to modify the DPLA.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The C4 dataset, created by Google in 2020, is taken from the Common Crawl dataset, which is an open-source dataset and “ a massive collection of web pages and websites consisting of petabytes of data collected over twelve (12) years, including raw web page data, metadata extracts, and text extracts ” (§ I.78 76) (see here and here ).

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. 5 of 2020, dated November 16, 2020, regarding ESP in the Private Sector, as amended by MOCI Regulation No. privacy policy; and. Image source: iStock]. MOCI Regulation No.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

Defendant also included references to potentially applicable privacy laws, including those of California. First, the defendant’s general online sales to a nationwide market through Amazon.com was not “express aiming.” 2020) (emphasis added). AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Wanat , 970 F.3d 3d 1201, 1209 (9th Cir.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 23, 2023

Defendant also included references to potentially applicable privacy laws, including those of California. First, the defendant’s general online sales to a nationwide market through Amazon.com was not “express aiming.” 2020) (emphasis added). AMA Multimedia, LLC v. Wanat , 970 F.3d 3d 1201, 1209 (9th Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When Mahindra launched the XUV700 with autonomous driving features in India last year, there was a huge uproar in the Indian car market. In conclusion, a specifically tailored act suitable for the incubation of autonomous vehicles into the Indian market has to be enacted keeping in mind various Indian scenarios.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Because of Bartlett’s popularity, McCandless used her, among other personalities, to market his services and asked her to provide a “testimonial” video for him to use, which she provided and he posted to his Instagram. Bartlett also helped them recruit another popular Instagram model, Passos.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2022

Recently, a coalition of state attorneys general launched an antitrust lawsuit against Google alleging that Google unlawfully maintains a monopoly in the market for Android app distribution. Other digital distribution services, compatible with the Android operating system, have no more than a 5% market share.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

We investigated the effects of Facebook’s and Instagram’s feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. “although exposure to content from like-minded sources on social media is common, reducing its prevalence during the 2020 US presidential election did not correspondingly reduce polarization in beliefs or attitudes” * Lucas v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 6, 2022

And all signs indicate that the agency will initiate rulemaking on some as-yet-undefined privacy issues once (and if) Alvaro Bedoya gets confirmed as the fifth commissioner. One of the issues the FTC wants to explore is how to deal with subscriptions and negative options that are marketed via telemarketing.

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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. Note that the data access issue crosses over to the consumer privacy laws, which may mandate consumer access to “their data” under specified circumstances.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Market effect. Bayside didn’t explain the market for the photos or how the tweets harmed that market. 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright, E-Commerce, Advertising). Q2 2015 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP, Marketing and More). .” This also weighs in favor of fair use (?). Amount taken.

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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. BrandTotal appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The origins of this provision lies in the 2020 Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) Panel report , which placed considerable emphasis on the need to support the “discoverability” of Canadian content: The CRTC must also be able to impose discoverability measures on media content companies.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Kelly Harris: In Canada, Competition Bureau brought enforcement action against FB for misleading privacy representations even though it’s a free service. Greenbaum: Environmental marketing: Little FTC enforcement but some states have enacted more stringent requirements or made Green Guides into enforceable rules.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The district court granted summary judgment in favor of AMN on the Sherman Act claims, finding that Aya failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact that AMN wielded market power and declining jurisdiction over Aya’s state law claims. [2]. 2020 WL 6205702, at *9 (C.D. ” [9]. .” ” [9]. 19, 2021), D.I.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And it was acknowledged that there are issues with this; with 2 million units of counterfeit goods having been destroyed by just Amazon, in 2020 alone. Goods placed on the market in the EU are deemed to have exhausted trade mark rights for the purposes of the UK, but not the other way round. Largely, these are destroyed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

In March 2020, plaintiffs began to have concerns about defendants’ loyalties to the business. Maryland enacted a social media privacy law in 2021. The Spectacular Failure of Employee Social Media Privacy Laws. Tito & Tita appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. It had approximately 4,000 followers.

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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. The post Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 16, 2022

5:18-cv-07233, 2020 WL 1967209 (N.D. 24, 2020) (holding that default judgment was a proper sanction against defendants for their elimination of relevant evidence from, among other locations, DingTalk, a workplace ephemeral messaging app made by Alibaba and popular in China with over 500 million users). Kun Huang , No.

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