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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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The Digital Age of Journalism: My Placement at “The Globe and Mail”

IPilogue

Publishing is, of course, one of the core copyright industries – if not the core industry historically associated with copyright. IP law in publishing, especially at The Globe – who is known for being an early provider of digital media and device-agnostic content delivery – goes far beyond copyright infringement and litigation.

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My “Summer” 2022 Activities

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. The Constitutionality of Mandating Editorial Transparency , 73 Hastings Law Journal 1203 (2022). A First Look at Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Filings. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws?

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Was Mark Twain the Original “Bad Art Friend”?

Copyright Lately

The dispute between writers and former friends Sonya Larson and Dawn Dorland over a short story involving a kidney donation has captured the attention of social media during the past week. Well, that would have been joyful news to me about the middle of December, when I gladly took the first offer that came, and made a contract.

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A Child’s Right to be Forgotten

IPilogue

Soon after, it was published in a French medical journal, along with her full name and medical details. First, we considered copyright law to try to stop the circulation of the photograph. Through the Berne Convention, the UK and France recognize each other’s copyright regimes. COMPLICATED MATTERS. FURTHER INTO THE MAZE.

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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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Global Digital Encounter 21: The Metaverse as a Challenge to Classical IP

Kluwer Copyright Blog

According to Dr Guadamuz, the main metaverse companies can be divided into three groups: (1) games companies and social media giants (creating private metaverses that are closed and wall guarded); (2) open metaverse developers (providing open-source decentralised standards); and (3) independent developers with some basic funding (e.g.,