SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

Recently, a copyright infringement suit had been filed before the District Court, Trivandrum, against Facebook India. Being his sole legal heir, the copyright in these works is held by Sweety Priyanka Vempati Ravi Shankar. Here, there was no discussion if privacy survives an individual’s death. Image from here.

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Moral Rights Privacy Personality Rights Copyright 98

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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Law Social Media Government Privacy 114

IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Publishing is, of course, one of the core copyright industries – if not the core industry historically associated with copyright. IP law in publishing, especially at The Globe – who is known for being an early provider of digital media and device-agnostic content delivery – goes far beyond copyright infringement and litigation.

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Journalism Privacy Contracts IP 80

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite the judiciary’s efforts to address the concerns under current intellectual property laws like copyright and trademark, the absence of relevant and specific provisions for the protection of personality rights has started to pose a serious threat. Puttaswamy v. The Plaintiffs cited foreign court rulings, such as Bette Midler v.

Personality Rights 62

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 62

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. NetChoice LLC v.

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Editing Social Media Blogging Advertising 89

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Oath , a copyright case involving a photo showing a bulge in Jon Hamm’s crotch. If the clinic is falsely claiming that he is, that’s false advertising and possibly defamation. The Twitter previews juxtaposing the 50 Cent photo with the eggplant photo aren’t necessarily in the advertiser’s control.

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Social Media False Advertising Advertising Advertising 116

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

A very common way of marketing a product is to have it advertised and endorsed by celebrities that the public holds in good opinion. If such content is not taken down within the prescribed time, the social media intermediaries would be liable for the same. Passing-off refers to misrepresenting someone else’s goods as one’s own.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

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. Copyright Preemption. At bottom, a portion of the copyright work itself is being displayed, a fundamental attribute of a copyright.”

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Advertising Advertising Social Media Blogging 91

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For demonstration purposes we extracted all the reasons for removal cited by YouTube in one 24-hour period during the last week and found several related to copyright, including those detailed below. Due to multiple copyright strikes associated with the videos below, your YouTube channel has now been terminated. .

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Business Reporting Social Media Copyright 99

IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

The author or creator of any theatrical, literary, creative, or musical work has an exclusive right to copyright. It was recently uncovered that numerous internet platforms are posting infringing content on their websites without the approval of the copyright owners. Image Source: gettyimages]. What are takedown services?

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Copyright Law Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 71

Patently-O

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Section 230 fostered the dominant social media business model where almost all of the major internet media services rely primarily upon user-provided content. But, AI may be different since it is more content-generative than most social-media. Think YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media.

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IP Intellectual Property Social Media Cease and Desist 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another troubling ruling for an Internet access provider trying to shake a contributory copyright claim based on user-caused copyright infringement. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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IP Advertising Advertising Copyright 73

IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2023

For example, can personality rights be viewed as an extension of the right to privacy? Scripps-Howard, the US Supreme Court distinguished the right of publicity from the right to privacy and ruled in favor of Zaccchini for the unauthorized broadcast of his performance by the defendant under publicity rights. Spelling-Goldberg Prods.,

Personality Rights 83

Personality Rights Privacy Trademark Law False Advertising 83

TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s bottom line for anonymizing privacy services is that they must comply with Russia’s site-blocking demands and open up themselves up to scrutiny. “In social networks, videos with social advertising [PSAs] about the risks of using VPN services are discussed. Just taking people for idiots.”

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Privacy Social Media Government Advertising 125

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Matthew Sag, Copyright Safety for Generative AI Not addressing whether training is always fair use in every circumstance; explain how generative AI fits w/in existing law (nonexpressive uses) and identify best practices to make generative AI fairer. 3) reasonable measures to safeguard privacy interests. (4) Christopher S.

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Social Media Fair Use Advertising Advertising 52

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The decisions in the first category , i.e., Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

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IP Intellectual Property Copyright Trademark 143

LexBlog IP

APRIL 19, 2023

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. Copyright Copyright protection is unlikely to help artists whose voice and musical style are simulated by AI models. There is nothing “copied” by the AI models and therefore no copyright to infringe.

Music 52

Music Privacy Social Media Copyright 52

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

They also want Congress to step up funding for criminal enforcement in copyright cases. Broadly speaking, the Authors Guild believes that existing copyright law is completely inadequate against modern threats but the background to the Kiss Library lawsuit paints a slightly different picture. Whois Privacy Corp.,

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Social Media Publishing Copyright Law Copyright 103

Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. Specific IP statutes such as the Trade Marks Act, 1999 and the Copyright Act, 1957 provide guidance on the matter. Additionally, Sec. Under this Act, Sec.

Branding 98

Branding Brands Branding Personality Rights 98

Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The conventional internet and social media, as we know it, is referred to as the Web2.0 Content-based industries such as music, advertising, movies, gaming, luxury, clothing, etc., – Data protection and privacy issues. The primary distinction between the two is that while Web2.0 – Jurisdictional issues.

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IP Law Invention Licensing 52

IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

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Trademark Non-Fungible Tokens Branding Brands 62

43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Moderator: Martin Senftleben, University of Amsterdam Copyright Law and/or/vs. copyright: (1) Food/chemicals (physicality, unlike ©; easy to establish stringent rules b/c it’s allowed v. 3) competition and (4) digital economy—copyright is potentially an aspect of both of those; DSA also relevant. Copyright holders/fair users?

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Art Copyright Settlement Moral Rights 45

LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works.

Trademark 52

Trademark Non-Fungible Tokens Intellectual Property Branding 52

43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dignitary interests: false light, IIED, privacy typically expire w/person. So too w/false advertising. Advertising: false endorsement potential. Actors’ strike is in part about who controls past performances if they’re being used to populate new media productions? Assumptions skipped over in TM/false advertising analysis.]

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Registration False Advertising Advertising Advertising 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Influence of law, desire to contract, social norms. Industries: advertising, merchandising, movies/TV, and video games. Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content.

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Fair Use Contracts Litigation Copying 59