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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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. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. StopTheSADScheme.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

billion according to the 2020 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey commissioned by American Express. Get free Small Business Saturday marketing materials ?- including sample posters, and social media resources . SBA's social media guide. Historically, reported projected spending among U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to the lawsuit, in February 2020, Barbera took a photo of Cyrus as she left a building. The lawsuit represents the latest in a long line of celebrities that have been sued by paparazzi over the use of unlicensed images on their social media. Most celebrities have opted to settle their cases.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2022

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

When BBB fans aren’t glued to their TVs waiting for the drama to unfold, many can be found on social media, usually speculating about what comes next, based on what they’ve just seen. For example, there is an impact on the attractiveness of audiovisual products for the advertising market,” it reads.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Rhode-NYC argues that Hailey Bieber’s use of her middle name “Rhode” as the name of her skin care brand is creating market confusion and potential harm to its goodwill and reputation. Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand.

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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. In March 2020, plaintiffs began to have concerns about defendants’ loyalties to the business. 1459 (2014); Zoe Argento, Whose Social Network Account? See generally, Christopher A.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 14, 2022

As part of ongoing probes into anti-trust practices, the SIC recommended the regional spirit manufacturer who set the discount caps in Antioquia, to implement compliance programs in order to prevent the risk of restricting free competition, specifically as it relates to Colombian Technical Standard CTS 6378/2020. 07/14/22 – Corporate.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. 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.

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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. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Analysis of CA AB587).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. ” After entering into this agreement with NMPA in 2020, TikTok went on to make licensing agreements with large music labels. By: Noelle Henry. were copyright related.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 8, 2022

Merpel and TechieKat Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo reported on a March 2021 decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal ( R 1996/2020-5 ) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) that answers this question. TRADE MARKS Remember the James Bond theme? Is it "too long" to be registered as a sound mark?

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The TTABlog

APRIL 22, 2024

The Hostess Brands’ gross profit for 2022 was $465,679,000, and the advertising and marketing expenditures for Hostess Brands was $21.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 respectively. Applicant Williams sells her handbags via her website and social media accounts. million, $9.5 million, and $6.2

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Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

And as for the payments from social media companies that the government insists are so essential that it has fought for years to include user content regulation in the bill? The CRTC and Social Media It is notable that much of this will not be decided by the government, but rather by the CRTC.

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Corsearch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Or maybe it isn’t a registered trademark but there’s a significant volume of use on social media for exactly this name? The World Intellectual Property Office estimates that in 2020, there were 64.4 Benefits of Brand Generator Efficiency: Drastically reduce the back-and-forth between marketing and legal teams.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In March 2020, the Kenya Copyright Board announced that it had launched the ‘Partners Against Piracy Campaign’ describing it as a “multi-stakeholder” awareness program. This WeCast product was marketed towards the hotel market at some point but regardless of location or content, functionality doesn’t change.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2023

During the summer, President Putin signed off on legal amendments that will require some internet platforms, including social networks, to verify new users’ identities, in some cases using their passports. The latter may take some time to emerge but in the meantime, Russia is attempting to remove as many as possible from the market.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” But Mandabach waited until November 2020 to sue and moved for a preliminary injunction only in March 2021. Anyway, Mandabach also didn’t show likely confusion.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2021

Clubhouse , the former invitation-only social media darling that captured the attention of investors, social media early adopters, and competitors since its introduction in April 2020, now faces significant challenges as it strives to remain relevant and attract new and engaged users.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lucy found a gap in the market for a stylish pill case when she started taking regular medication. Paola stood firm that this type of product didn’t already exist on the market, but sadly this wasn’t enough to convince Peter. A quick search on the trade mark register shows that Jayne made sure to trade mark Psychic Sisters in 2020.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

After Diego Maradona’s death on November 25, 2020, it was revealed that Sattvica, S.A., With that wind in its sails, Sattvica undertook to remove certain images and uses of Maradona’s name and likeness that appear to have been posted in social media by Maradona’s children.

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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. MySpace (5th Cir.).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In March 2020, she contracted a respiratory illness. The court agrees, in an opinion filled with numerous gems and zingers supporting free speech, such as: “Even if short and often grammatically scurrilous, social media posts do not fall outside the ambit of the First Amendment. She posted on Instagram that she had COVID.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

And finally, on July 21, 2020—two months before Plaintiff’s subscription would renew—Defendant sent him an email reminder that he had to cancel his subscription if he did not want the automatic renewal to occur. SayGames LLC, 2020 WL 379165 (N.D. Voodoo SAS v.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 5, 2024

2, 2024) Some interesting comments on when individual instances of “confusion” don’t count, as well as their relevance to evaluating out-of-court social media etc. While multiple witnesses testified as to Plaintiff’s significant marketing and advertising efforts, that alone is not indicative of strength.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. This is a similar development as in Solid Oak Sketches, LLC v. 2K Games, Inc. ,

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. In December 2020, DISH’s first amended complaint named three people as the alleged operators of Universe IPTV – Mohamed Omar, Hossam Abd Elghany, and Moustafa Maatouk.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. Taking heed of the GDPR, in early 2020, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ).

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43(B)log

JULY 6, 2022

Marketing Sales Practices & Prods. Plaintiffs moved to certify four classes of purchasers of JUUL products on “theories that defendants’ marketing of JUUL was unlawfully deceptive, JUUL was unlawfully marketed to youth, and JUUL products are not fit for ordinary use.” In Re Juul Labs, Inc., I don't even have a RICO tag!

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They weren’t directly asked about the phrase “Super Creatine,” whether participants had prior experiences with or opinions of Bang, or whether they had seen Vital’s advertising in the market. Dr. Chiagouris also opined on two Monster-commissioned surveys conducted by InfoScout, a market research firm.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Following research published by BeGambleAware , CAP launched a consultation in October 2020 to consider the need to reduce the appeal of gambling ads to under-18s and other vulnerable people. CAP has provided Guidance (the “ ASA Guidance ”) to assist marketers in interpreting the requirements of the new rules. . The New Rules.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” The COVID-19 Act was enacted on December 27, 2020.

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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As a way to supplement her income, she put on a contest whereby her social media followers would buy gift certificates for future tattoos and would get to vote on one of several funny tattoos that would eventually be tattooed onto the artist’s husband. ” Blanch v. .” 2K Games, Inc. , 3d 333 (S.D.N.Y.

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