IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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Michael Geist

JULY 18, 2023

As Bill C-18 made its way through the legislative process, the government and the media lobby groups supporting the bill insisted that Google and Meta were bluffing when they warned that legislation premised on mandated payments for links could lead the companies to stop Canadian news linking or sharing on their platforms.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Canadian government released a detailed document last week outlining the specifics behind its draft Digital Services Tax Act. No actual legislation has yet been passed, but the government is providing guidance on how the potential law would be interpreted assuming it takes effect next year.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It has opened wide range of facilities for us like entertainment, education, advertisements, communication etc. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters.

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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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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.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 26, 2022

I recently joined BakerHostetler’s Chicago office in the Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group after spending almost eight years at Publicis Groupe, where I led a team of attorneys supporting business units focused on media, data and advertising technology (“ad tech”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create. ” Click on the image to see the animation. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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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. Publicity Rights Under Indian IP Law In India, there is no direct statute that governs publicity rights in the intellectual property law regime. Under this Act, Sec.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 19, 2022

To address these issues, the government has created the Takedown Services for Copyright Protection idea, which allows copyright owners to issue takedown notifications to platforms that are infringing on their rights. Legal Framework governing take down notice.

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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. They’re also used to direct behavior in a way that benefits governments and corporations while making it appear that the interests of citizens are paramount.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. The Supreme Court also touched upon issues relating to Covid drug procurement through importation.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s give you some insights as to What constitutes such infringement, what can be done against this, and the relevant laws governing such situations . Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Interesting right? Puttaswamy v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It operates a Facebook page entitled “ City of Sammamish – Government.” As one would expect from local governments creating speech policies, there are many obvious problems with the list. We’ve already seen how trying to moderate social media activity has become a liability trap for government actors.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Today, social media has become a vital part of our lives. Before, there were various print media outlets that we could rely on such as newspapers, television, and radio. However, now, with the rise of social media, users can now create their own content and spread it with thousands of people. What is Social Media?

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

WEB3.0 – Decentralized Similar to the real world, the metaverse is not built or operated by a single entity, there are many stakeholders which include individuals, companies, governments etc. The conventional internet and social media, as we know it, is referred to as the Web2.0 – Data protection and privacy issues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Added provision blocking CBC from running “advertorial” (blended advertising and editorial) content (ie. “an an advertisement or announcement on behalf of an advertiser that is designed to resemble journalistic programming”) . Added a right of privacy and a requirement (5(2)(g) of protecting privacy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The state pretextually claimed this was an attempt to prevent China from siphoning off American private data, but the law was not a privacy initiative at all. This is especially apparent in that the same legislature enacted an entirely separate law that purports to broadly protect consumers’ digital data and privacy.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Earlier this week, I attended an excellent talk with Frances Haugen, the well-known Facebook whistleblower, who delivered a compelling case that the social media giant, driven by profit maximization, consistently errs on the side of technical choices that keeps users engaged, angry, and on the platform, often at an enormous societal cost.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In late October, Facebook announced that it would change its name to Meta , signaling a shift of the social media giant’s focus toward the metaverse , a virtual space where social media, gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, and cryptocurrencies converge and allow people to interact virtually with one another.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Don’t assume that Brussels and California effect that occurs w/privacy also occurs when corps can adjust tech granularly. Governments might also find much to envy in DSA. Demands to control social media—take down posts from political rivals, block full services—are common around the world.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2022

Last month, as part of BakerHostetler’s “Look Back, Look Ahead: Advertising and Marketing Law in 2021 & 2022” webinar series, partners Craig A. On the other hand, since President Biden assumed office, Texas has begun to direct more resources to sue the federal government. Takeaway No. Takeaway No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

There is widespread belief that the major incumbents are too big, too rich, and too capricious to avoid pervasive government control. I have explained in detail how mandatory editorial transparency laws enable government censorship, both by prospectively channeling publisher behavior and through post hoc enforcement threats.

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