LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

After previously finding that the Biden White House and the FBI likely violated First Amendment free speech protections for some users of online social media platforms, the Fifth Circuit expanded its ruling to find that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also likely violated the First Amendment.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released data showing that more than 95,000 consumers reported losses totaling $770 million from fraud schemes that started on social media. That is a staggering amount of money lost by consumers and is a significant increase from losses of $258 million reported in 2020.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

From the thrilling gold-medal finish of the women’s soccer team to Andre De Grasse becoming the first sprinter to bring home gold since 1996, there was no shortage of exciting moments for Canadians at Tokyo 2020. Penny Oleksiak made history as the country’s most decorated Olympian of all time. Another odd result is that certain marks (e.g.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding?

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IPilogue

JULY 19, 2021

IP Osgoode would like to congratulate the winners of the Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize for 2020-2021. Our stories also delve into related areas including: internet law, privacy rights, broadcasting, social media and free speech. Of course, the subject matter of the IPilogue goes beyond strictly IP.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

” 2: ‘Electric Avenue’ Musician Seeks to Depose Trump Campaign Social Media Director About Using Song in Ad That Mocked Joe Biden. President Trump himself has already been deposed in this matter, but attempts to depose Dan Scavino, the social media director for the campaign, have been met by repeated delays.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2023

The last figure is up from 12% during the previous survey in 2020, and in 2018 it was only 10%. In 2020, fewer young Danes said they had downloaded or streamed pirated content. Of the 15% who admit to having pirated something over the past year, more than half used social media.

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Barry Sookman

APRIL 26, 2020

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-18 [link] 2020-04-19 Racing Head-On Into Artists’ Nightmares: An Examination of danah boyd’s ‘Facing the Great Reckoning… by… [link] 2020-04-19 Announcement: Commissioner publishes framework to assess privacy-impactful initiatives in response to COVID-19 – Of… [link] 2020-04-20 Message from the (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Chicken Joe’s, an Albany NY-based restaurant “reposted” @WGNAFM’s post, which apparently included the photo in question, to its “social media” page. Breitbart , the court says that “reposting” on “social media” is enough to find copyright infringement in a default judgment.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 10, 2022

First off today, Ryan Naumann at Radar Online reports that photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against the rapper Nas claiming copyright infringement over a post on social media. Nas republished the photo on his Instagram in 2020 and, according to Pereira, this was done without permission or a license.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Nordstrom removed the pieces at issue, and everything seemed to be fine on the copying front—until 2020 hit. They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020. If successful, this would mean TGE could not file an infringement suit).

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 28, 2024

As per a recent 2020 study, 43 per cent of Indians are suffering from ‘clinical depression.’ [iv] However, this further exacerbated the scenario as individuals started excessively using social media increasing their screentime. 07, 12: 1015 (2020). [vi] 07, 12: 1015 (2020). Psychiatry Research, vol.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

The CCB became a reality in December 2020 when the U.S. government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). This includes works originally uploaded to social media. Copyright Office announces that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has launched its new website, ccb.gov.

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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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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms. Content creators.

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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. including sample posters, and social media resources . SBA's social media guide. Follow SBA on social media for all the latest updates on #ShopSmall. in your area .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

PETA objects to these experiments and commented on TAMU’s social media pages. TAMU claims that PETA’s comments were “spam” that violated TAMU’s social media policy. Texas A&M (TAMU) does medical experiments on dogs. TAMU blocked PETA, which led to a prior lawsuit that settled.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the close of another year upon us, IPWatchdog is returning to an annual feature with its Top 10 list of issued U.S. patents during 2021.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to the plaintiffs, Paramount optioned the article for the first film but failed to option it for the sequel, despite the rights reverting back to the estate in January 2020. As part of his reelection campaign, he used the meme on various social media platforms, prompting Laney to file the lawsuit.

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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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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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JD Supra Law

MAY 19, 2022

A recent case filed by famous choreographer Kyle Hanagami is set to test the boundaries of copyright law in video games and on social media. He won the 2020 iHeart Music Award for Favorite Music Video Choreography for BlackPink’s “Kill This Love” and holds the title for YouTube’s most viewed choreography video of all time.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc. Also, the privacy and security matters on the social media make it much difficult to prevent the duplication of copyrighted works. 2019 SCC Online Del 8002 Disney Enterprise inc.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms. Content creators.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Consumers rely on news and social media information more than ever — and they need to be able to trust the information they consume. Widely available technology and social media platforms have made it easy to alter actual photos and distribute false or misleading stories whose content seems plausible.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2022

Back in November 2020, video game composer Tommy Tallarico discovered the use of the sound effect in Roblox and, rather than pull it, struck a licensing deal with Roblox for its continued use. 2: Rapper Nonini Goes After Social Media Influencer in Legal Battle.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 8, 2022

By: Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog The CCB is currently scheduled to begin hearing cases by no later than June 2022. But will this forum achieve.

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The IPKat

MAY 20, 2022

Mostert co-submitted an application for a troll emoji ( ) to the Unicode Consortium in early 2020. Given the prevalence of social media trolls in the digital world, he came to the conclusion that an emoji that could be used to reference them would also be of use. This is thanks to Kat friend Frederick Mostert.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

During PrivacyCon 2020 , researchers presented work showing that algorithms developed for benign purposes like healthcare resource allocation and advertising actually resulted in racial bias. Who discovered the racial bias in the healthcare algorithm described at PrivacyCon 2020 and later published in Science?

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2022

Besides being the most played song on Tiktok in March 2020, it garnered 42.1 Record labels, like several companies, have turned to TikTok and other social media platforms to market their products. The virality of “#Savagechallenge” contributed to the song’s commercial success. million US streams and peaked at No.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2022

In 2022, many people are exposed to these subscriptions through friends or the marvels of social media. The image below from that report shows the regions where notices were issued during 2020-21. But for many, it’s even more simple than that. The problem is that this type of offense is viewed as fraud, a criminal offense.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 29, 2021

The Section 230 landscape remains about the same as 2020. By creating major legal disincentives to “amplifying” content, they seem to encourage Facebook or Google to passively host web content and provide reduced social features. Does the proposed Klobuchar bill have any merit do you think?

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Things are taking longer than ever because of the filing surge back in 2020-2021, and the USPTO is still getting out from under the burden of that surge, even though filings have been down a little bit each year since then. The USPTO also saw continued lags and delays in many areas for trademark owners, applicants and registrants.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It’s either “We can’t see how it’s infringing” or “How you are authorized" — Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) August 19, 2020. Otherwise, Facebook will continue to get older and more and more secondary in the social media wars.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

The plaintiff is Rogan O’Handley, a California lawyer with elite credentials (UChicago Law, practice experience as a corporate finance and entertainment attorney) who nevertheless jumped onto the anti-“elites” Trump train and embraced Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Baidu , Kronemyer v.

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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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