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Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content

Erik K Pelton

Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. When you hire someone to write or post or do social media for you, or create most types of content, it is generally a work for hire type of agreement.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter.

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Are Your Publicity Rights Protected for the AI Surge?

Traverse Legal Blog

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. Licensing Publicity Rights: A Lucrative Yet Risky Venture Many have sought to get ahead of the curve and capitalize on their publicity rights with AI.

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Court Orders Universe IPTV to Pay DISH $7m in Copyright Infringement Damages

TorrentFreak

Initially filed in August 2020, the complaint targeted five ‘doe’ defendants, together doing business as Universe IPTV and Universe TV. The complaint alleged that the service’s business was carried out via several domains, including but not limited to World-Universeiptv.com and Uni-Update.com. Broad Injunction Against Universe IPTV.

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Are Your Publicity Rights Protected for the AI Surge?

LexBlog IP

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. Licensing Publicity Rights: A Lucrative Yet Risky Venture Many have sought to get ahead of the curve and capitalize on their publicity rights with AI.

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.

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Does the CFAA Help Airlines Control Their Distribution Channels?–RyanAir v. Booking (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Its business model is to sell highly discounted flights at, near, or below cost and then to make additional profits by selling ancillary services such as food, drinks, rental cars, hotels, and insurance on their site and on their flights. As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop.