IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products.

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Business Contracts Branding Brands 131

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Things went south, however, when JLM tried to renegotiate the parties’ deal by expanding the designer’s social media job duties. When negotiations fell apart, the designer locked JLM out of her brand’s social media page, and she started a new social media account under a slightly different trade name.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2022

JLM Couture v Hailey Paige Gutman : Second Circuit decision involving an intellectual property dispute between a high-profile influencer and her business partner. The parties are now fighting over control and ownership of certain social media accounts created during the pendency of Ms. Hayley Paige is a bridal gown designer.

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Social Media Ownership Contracts Intellectual Property 52

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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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

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. First, contracts. Make sure you have proper contracts. And there’s nothing wrong with that, of course. And this is shocking to many people.

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Social Media Copyright Cease and Desist Contracts 147

The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2024

The promotion of items on social media by celebrities and influencers is commonplace for companies. This included interest in the shoes she was wearing on the day she signed the contract with Puma. However, these collaborations or partnerships don't always work out as they should. The design application is dated 26 July 2016.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Reminder: courts sometimes demand that consumers click twice to form a contract. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp., 2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. Lona’s Lil Eats, LLC v. Handle, Inc.,

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Advertising Advertising Contracts Social Media 108

LexBlog IP

JULY 14, 2022

The new 2022 SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract (the 2022 Contract), which is retroactively effective to April 1, 2022, appears to offer certain benefits to advertiser and agency signatories of the Commercials Contract, particularly JPC authorizers, as well as Union member performers.

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Contracts Advertising Advertising Social Media 52

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are formal contracts to outline the finer points and, in such cases, licensed professionals are involved to help the athlete understand their legal obligations. Further, it is more likely to be a verbal agreement or one made over social media. To form a contract, three main ingredients are required.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Similar to celebrity-filled ads, collaborative relationships between influencers and companies on social media continue to be prevalent. Like Patrick + Brittany and Travis + Taylor: Partnerships Are Key Nowadays, celebrities and social media influencers are more business savvy.

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Social Media Intellectual Property Contracts Branding 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

This is one of the dozens of lawsuits alleging that social media services addict kids. Jones-based personal jurisdiction over Snap based on the plaintiffs’ allegations that: Defendants acted intentionally when they entered into contracts with M.K., Snap has entered into contracts with thousands of Oregon residents.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— 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. In November 2023, X corp. May 9, 2024).

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Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Social Media 96

LexBlog IP

APRIL 17, 2023

In recent years, cybersecurity has become a significant concern for businesses of all sizes across the United States, and Florida is no exception. Below are the top five cybersecurity concerns for Florida businesses: Phishing Attacks. In Florida, phishing attacks are one of the most common types of cyber attacks that businesses face.

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Business Social Media Confidentiality Technology 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Different social media service, same result–case dismissed. She ran a business selling adult toys and promoted the business on her Instagram account. The court dismisses the plaintiff’s claims: Breach of Contract. This is yet another account termination case. She claims she generated $10k/week in sales.

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Contracts Social Media Blogging Business 76

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

As alleged in the complaint, plaintiffs operated a bakery known as “La Baguette,” and hired defendants to manage aspects of the business. Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. It had approximately 4,000 followers.

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Social Media Contracts Ownership Business 80

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 22, 2024

This case got a little media coverage in October. The principal of an auto dealership lost access to his personal Facebook account for unspecified reasons, which also meant he couldn’t access his business page. Google Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Twitter , Howard v.

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Litigation Social Media Government Publishing 69

TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2024

anywhere where they’re reliant on services operated by businesses that already comply with the law and are more likely to take action. Technical solutions may face compliance and regulatory issues, while pirate adversaries remain light on their feet by ignoring them all.

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Social Media IP Registration Law 95

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

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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Blogging Contracts Intellectual Property Social Media 96

43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Its TOS provide that users will not use Roblox content outside of the Roblox Platform, monetize Roblox content, or imply an association with Roblox for their businesses outside of the Roblox Platform. Interestingly, the contract/tortious interference claims against US resident defendants had to be arbitrated because of its own TOS.

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Copying False Advertising Social Media Advertising 94

TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2024

The complaint mentioned that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist” on social media. For one, it notes that the Ohio court has no jurisdiction over the defendant, who has never conducted business in the state. Secondly, the complaint only sparsely mentions Matienzo.

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Social Media Publishing Contracts Copying 97

IPilogue

JULY 28, 2022

A Record Label is a Business. Record labels, like several companies, have turned to TikTok and other social media platforms to market their products. As a business, their priority is to profit from their artists’ music — their products. TikTok’s rise in popularity has undoubtably reshaped the music industry.

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Music Social Media Marketing Marketing 117

Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

Included within the JLM contract were certain restrictive covenants, including a non-competition agreement, as well as various intellectual property assignment provisions. While the contract was originally to run through 2016, the parties extended the agreement through August 1, 2022. JLM Couture, Inc. Gutman , 24 F.4th 4th at 789.

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Social Media Contracts Confidentiality Business 59

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Previously, no legislative framework existed in Ireland for qualified users such as educational establishments and cultural heritage institutions to pursue these public policy goals in digital settings (see Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation public consultation on the transposition of Directive).

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Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 102

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. At the time of passage, I’m not sure how many businesses were actually using contracts to control their customers’ reviews, but it was a growing trend.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. This article features three artists I met over the course of my research: Kaitlin Chan (they/she), an autobiographical cartoonist from Hong Kong; Tabathia Smith (she/her), a laser-cutting small business owner; and.

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Social Media IP Business Branding 106

LexBlog IP

MARCH 23, 2023

The lawsuit states that De La Cruz’s “distinguishable voice” also has been used without her consent for songs, records, promotions, worldwide concerts, television, radio and social and musical platforms.

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Business Social Media Television Contracts 40

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

Platforms are also under the obligation to contract with the press publishers requesting so and pay them a fair remuneration. As a more or less direct result, posting and sharing of Italian press articles via social media comes now without picture previews. Under the Italian version of art.

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Publishing Contracts Social Media Art 81

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Definition of “Hateful conduct” means “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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Social Media Reporting Government Law 110

Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The duo were pitching for a 50k investment in return for a 10% cut in their dog safety gate business, The Dog-G8 Company. The Dragons’ ears pricked up when Peter told them that the company had joined the popular social media channel TikTok, where three of their videos had gained 27.7 million views. million views.

Social Media 52

Social Media Licensing Business IP 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Social Media Law Privacy Government 127

IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

the TOKYO 2020 EMBLEM ) are protected as an official mark but not under the OPMA, which may present difficulties as certain businesses look to the OPMA to check their compliance. . Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content.

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Intellectual Property Social Media IP Trademark 106

43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Defendants counterclaimed for payment and damages for breach of contract and bad faith. Under Rhode Island law, policy exclusions must be unambiguous, and ‘contract provisions subject to more than one interpretation are construed strictly against the insurer.’” And a party’s failure to read a contract does not render it unenforceable.

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Advertising Advertising Settlement Contracts 64

IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 million readers every issue in print and digital.

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Journalism Privacy Contracts IP 80

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Cameron Atkinson self-describes as “a Christian, a trial and appellate lawyer at Pattis & Smith, LLC, a former business consultant, a published constitutional scholar, and a general hell-raiser.” ” Once again, Section 230 can preempt contract-based claims that are backdoor workarounds to Section 230.

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Social Media Government Publishing Contracts 141

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Moreover, there is nothing to suggest that the CFRA was designed to be used as a defense to a private breach of contract action. Or that the person is a pharmacist or is in the business of selling or maintaining medical devices. Consumer Reviews * Route App, Inc. Heuberger , 2023 WL 5334192 (D. ” * Florence v.

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Social Media Privacy Advertising Advertising 73

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s a reminder of why Twitter will never be profitable again (it’s dissipating its cash on wasteful litigation instead of building a non-cesspool business), and that check will be yet another embarrassing confirmation of Musk’s hypocrisy and fragile ego. Breach of Contract Twitter’s TOS bans scraping.

Litigation 86

Litigation Contracts Advertising Advertising 86

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. social media data), databases and trade secrets (e.g. most open source licenses provide a termination in case of breach of contract, which would impact the functioning of the AI model).

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