TorrentFreak

JUNE 9, 2023

The most visible cost to the user is advertising, lots and lots of advertising. Invidious: A Privacy Front-End For YouTube Invidious describes itself as an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. A Public Invidious Instance The software is licensed under AGPL-3.0 Premium products aside, YouTube is free to use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In addition to providing Chegg’s for-pay services online for free, Homeworkify has used and continues to use Chegg’s name in Google Advertising. But if defendant scraped all the data before getting a cease-and-desist letter and while it still had valid access, no degree of subsequent misuse creates a CFAA claim. The horror!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In that case, Judge Easterbrook wrote, in finding that a “shrinkwrap” license was enforceable against the defendant: But are rights created by contract “equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright”? Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., TOU at 6-7.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

There is the famous example of NYU data researchers who received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook/Meta for doing research on Facebook’s algorithm. Good people and good companies get sued (or get threatened) all the time by companies and organizations that don’t want to get scraped.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data. If a company conducts business internationally, it may have to adhere to the privacy laws of foreign countries.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data. If a company conducts business internationally, it may have to adhere to the privacy laws of foreign countries.

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