Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” Katherine Von Drachenberg (“Kat Von D”) is a celebrity tattoo artist.

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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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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. As a result, CCDH met the first prong of the anti-SLAPP protections that the lawsuit targeted socially important speech.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

Over the course of my time at The Globe, I gained vast and multidisciplinary experience, but three major themes emerged within my practical and research work: privacy, contracts, and data protection. Complying with privacy regulations, especially in IT contracts, is as important as it can be misunderstood.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. See generally, Christopher A.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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 IP can be ‘licensed-out’ or ‘licensed-in’. You can ‘license-out’ to another company in return for a fee. million views.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. You agree that as a condition of your license, you will not: i. People Want to Download and Keep Movies & TV Shows. Copyright Law and DRM.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

ICS provider: “message boards and social media sites qualify as ‘interactive computer services.'” Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Third party content: Plaintiff “is responsible for the creation of his tweets, which were circulated via Twitter.”

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

As such, whereas other streaming services negotiate to license music that they subsequently make that available to consumers, YouTube effectively negotiates licences for music that users are already providing through the service. Plot twist!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

It represents a rare federal intervention into contract law, and it does so for good reasons–to reduce the ability of businesses to manipulate the consumer review ecosystem by wiping away negative reviews and leaving only positive reviews. Ideal Horizon Benefits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

But before they get there, these courts must first decide whether AA’s terms and conditions constitutes a valid and enforceable contract, and whether TPG assented to its terms. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. Facebook v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Big Ruling for Free Speech: Most of Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law (SB 7072) Remains Enjoined–NetChoice v. Analysis of CA AB587). Attorney General.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 19, 2023

This blog explores some considerations surrounding influencer marketing and highlights key aspects that should be addressed in contracts to ensure a mutually beneficial and legally compliant partnership. Parties : Consider the parties involved in the arrangement and ensure that the appropriate parties are reflected in any formal contracts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ohio enacted a law, the “ Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act ,” Ohio Rev. Obviously, these definitions reach most user-generated content (UGC) services, not just “social media” in the classic sense. Recall the term “social media” is literally in the bill title).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, in the post-Musk era, LinkedIn has become my #1 social media referral source.] The plaintiff also argued that LinkedIn breached its contract with her. LinkedIn appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. .” She also claims she suffered financial losses due to the LinkedIn account termination. [I

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Breach of Contract. Plus, the contract reserved Amazon’s right to delete content and terminate accounts in its sole discretion. Amazon didn’t deceive consumers because its contract reserved the rights it exercised: the CPA claim is based on Amazon’s decisions to remove reviews and revoke review privileges.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

This raises an obvious corollary: at most, Shah has a non-exclusive license to those photos, so what are the terms of those licenses and could Shah potentially infringe the owners’ copyrights by posting them? NYP appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This case covers similar ground as the uncited Hubay v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Prager tried a variety of contract-based workarounds to Section 230. Going beyond the contracts, Prager looks to various “promises” it alleges that defendants made through public-facing comments. Indeed, the whole “but the algorithms” attack on Section 230 has always been nonsensical.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

BrandTotal “provides advertising consulting services to corporate clients regarding how those clients’ and their competitors’ digital advertisements are presented to social media users.” Law students, this is one of many reasons why your 1L Contracts class is so important. ” Oof.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The business that got scraped (Genius Media Group, “GMC”) provides an online platform for music enthusiasts who transcribe song lyrics. GMC invested millions of dollars to build its technology and to attract its community of users. GMC properly licenses the right to display, from the copyright owners of the lyrics.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 29, 2023

The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Davis claimed that Texas’ social media censorship law preempted the TOS venue clause. Davis argued that the TOSes are contracts of adhesion.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Shared sued Facebook for: Shared avers that Meta committed conversion (Claim 1), breach of contract (Claim 3), and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (Claim 4) in suspending access to Shared’s Facebook pages, contrary to the Facebook Terms of Service. Meta Platforms, Inc., 2022 WL 4372349 (N.D.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

A collaboration between the AGO and Toronto-based digital artist Alex Mayhew, ReBlink sought to exploit cutting-edge technology to provide AGO visitors an opportunity to experience its Canadian and European Collections in an entirely new way. There are clear advantages to the use of these technologies in the museum context.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

As the Newman court summarized, “this case has shed its intentional discrimination and constitutional claims, becoming—first and foremost—a breach of contract dispute.” That topic is expressly at issue in the FLA and TX social media censorship cases). Google appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 6] Stuart D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

To settle that dispute, the parties worked out an “exclusive” license: the second-comer could sell the design on Amazon, and the registrant could keep selling it on eBay. The second comer/licensee assigned the exclusive license to a successor licensee, the defendant in this case. assertions. MGA Entertainment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Power Ventures was a platform that attempted to enable users to manage all their social media accounts from one platform. Everyone can access the system—except those whose technology and services threaten their business model. Booking (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2022

NFTs are data units stored on a blockchain used to transfer ownership of physical items or digital media with smart contracts. As technology and art advance, markets are never far behind. NFTs are only the latest eyebrow-raising trend that involve goods and services that are intangible or intrinsically difficult to value.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Judge Alsup dismisses most of Berenson’s claims, but the contract breach and promissory estoppel claims survive Twitter’s motion to dismiss. ” Contract Breach/Promissory Estoppel. Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Berenson sued Twitter. Section 230.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

In today’s social media-powered world, it would’ve been devasting. According to Bungie, access to Destiny 2 is only granted after the user agrees to the terms of a Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA). The terms of the LSLA represent a binding contract between Bungie and each individual player of Destiny 2.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Studies have shown significant improvement in results from TDM research using full-text articles, which are often behind a paywall or subject to additional licensing, rather than mere abstracts, which are often more freely available. Many of the projects described below use this basic function of TDM in various specific applications.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks.

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