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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is the latest entry in a long-running legal battle between Hayley Paige Gutman, a bridalwear designer, and JLM Couture, her one-time employer. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). On appeal, the Second Circuit vacates the account transfers to JLM. ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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.

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Court Enjoins Ohio’s Law Requiring Parental Approval for Children’s Social Media Accounts–NetChoice v. Yost

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Ohio enacted a law, the “ Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act ,” Ohio Rev. Obviously, these definitions reach most user-generated content (UGC) services, not just “social media” in the classic sense. Recall the term “social media” is literally in the bill title).

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Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273, The Age-Appropriate Design Code Act)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Today’s example is AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Before we get overwhelmed by the bill’s details, I’ll highlight three crucial concerns: First, the bill pretextually claims to protect children, but it will change the Internet for EVERYONE. Age-Appropriate Design Code.

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Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

“Although social media platforms do not like it, scraping, for various ends, is commonplace.” ” As the court notes, such tactics are exactly what anti-SLAPP laws are designed to combat. March 25, 2024) The post Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v.

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2023 Quick Links: Censorship

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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EU AI Act Proposal and Regulation of Financial Services

IP Tech Blog

General purpose AI system” means an AI system that can be used in and adapted to a wide range of applications for which it was not intentionally and specifically designed. Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content. Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training.