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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I always enjoy these and recommend the free GALA webinars to those interested in advertising law; I joined in progress due to some technical difficulties on my end. Kelly Harris: In Canada, Competition Bureau brought enforcement action against FB for misleading privacy representations even though it’s a free service. Mattero v.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Though the deadline for sharing these comments passed on October 5 and the government is presently working on finalizing the Rules, we received a guest post underlining the need to regulate the menace caused by dark patterns and its interaction with intellectual property rights.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

23, 2020) MFSA brought trademark dilution and false advertising claims against Netflix for its portrayal in the film “The Laundromat.” Libel/false light claims aren’t addressed in this decision; see below.) Rogers governed the false advertising claim. CV 19-9330-CBM-AS(x) (C.D. It’s about money laundering.)

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False Advertising Advertising Advertising Privacy 59

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Read literally, all advertising “allow[s] for arranging the sale or purchase of goods,” so this law potentially obligates EVERY ad-supported publisher to undertake the content moderation obligations the bill imposes on online marketplaces. What’s Regulated?

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Trademark False Advertising Advertising Advertising 136

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2023

And then…the Ninth Circuit got the case again… The Majority Opinion After the Supreme Court cert denial, the district court ruled that Malwarebytes’ “malicious” and “threat” classifications were “non-actionable statements of opinion” and thus could not support a Lanham Act false advertising claim.

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Blogging False Advertising Litigation Marketing 87

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But if I stopped what I was doing to write a personal message every time I saw a blogger with no legal background shilling for a web-scraping company or a half-asleep aggregator journalist [FN] spewing ignorance online about the laws that govern web scraping, I wouldn’t get out much.

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Blogging Law Contracts Cease and Desist 117

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2024

This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. Many sites have multiple overlapping governance documents with similar names, so it’s fair for consumers to expect accurate specificity. sought to send the case to arbitration. The district court disagreed. Warner Bros.

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