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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

The IP Law Blog

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. The concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v.

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Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers

LexBlog IP

By: Weintraub Tobin Summer Associate Josh Concepcion The Ninth Circuit recently revisited the issue of “embedding” content by a website and its implication for copyright infringement claims. The concept of “embedding” content is not a new phenomenon.

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Government Gets the Law Wrong as it Finally Makes the Case Why it is Rejecting the Bill C-11 User Content Regulation Fix

Michael Geist

When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation. The specific use case: The amendment could also fail to achieve its own stated purpose to capture commercial sound recordings broadcast by social media platforms.

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The Potential Risks of ChatGPT and Other Generative AI

LexBlog IP

A brand that uses material generated by AI in a public-facing manner – such as in an ad or a social media post – could run the risk of infringing on another’s rights, for which the brand could be held liable.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). The plaintiffs argue that such conduct would replicate that of Clearview.

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Metaverse And The Changing Dynamics Of IP Law

Intepat

The conventional internet and social media, as we know it, is referred to as the Web2.0 platform amalgamating a game, a marketing channel, and thereby creating an ecosystem of its own. while the metaverse belongs to a more recent category or iteration of the internet known as the Web3.0. – Jurisdictional issues.

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Catching Up on Recent FOSTA Developments (None of Them Good)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

While these search terms are clearly not acceptable, it’s also obvious that these phrases could describe completely legal videos as part of exaggerated or fantastical marketing. Because negates Section 230 on two independent grounds (FOSTA and content creation), Mindgeek has two separate reasons it could lose.

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