Intellectual Property Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Executive Order covers several important issues but fails to address other significant issues.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Reddit or X (Twitter) data for ChatGPT) and which try to ban AI data scraping via technical tools and contractual terms (see class action against OpenAI for privacy and copyright infringement). EU Digital Market Act and competition laws that force access to certain data, see below). What is the liability of open source contributors?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 10, 2023

[i] The primary objective behind such a regulation is to deal with new and emerging challenges in digital lending landscape such as unbridled engagement of third parties, mis-selling, breach of data privacy, unfair business conduct, charging of exorbitant interest rates, and unethical recovery practices used by lending platforms.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. But needless to say, the Metaverse brings into picture several aspects of the law such as Copyright law , Contract law, Tort law and Criminal law. Contract Law .

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 7, 2022

Data privacy concerns for businesses are on the rise, and organizations need to be prepared for the growing threat and response. Notification to Consumer Reporting Agencies. Finally, when a large volume of consumers is affected, breached entities may need to notify consumer reporting agencies. Contractual Obligations.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With rising concern about the potential for market consolidation in this area, the Order also instructs the federal agencies that are developing AI-related policies and regulations to promote fair competition in the AI market.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. Also consider international markets.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In July, we reported that Katherine Vidal, the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, published a letter summarizing several initiatives designed in collaboration with the FDA to “get[] generic, biosimilars and more affordable versions of [] drugs into the hands of Americans.”

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Executive Order covers several important issues but fails to address other significant issues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

He encouraged his followers to report Couture to Southwest Florida Crimestoppers. And he falsely reported to the Florida Department of Children and Families that Couture had harmed her child. Noshirvan’s videos forced Garramone to terminate contracts with surgeons who worried about reputational harm.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

As part of Musk’s ElonJet crackdown, he blocked journalists for reporting on the story. This was always a tough case involving possible conflicts between Section 230 and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Two recent key developments were the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act. Henderson v. Source for Public Data.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Trade secret law is credited with fostering innovation in the market and allowing entities to include a vast array of intellectual property rights under its umbrella. From an entity’s perspective, public participation enhances trust and helps them reach a larger and diverse market. Informed consent of all parties is equally important.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. Bleacher Report, Inc. , No. 23-cv-00368-SI.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

I helped pass legislation to enhance accountability across social networks and ensure users can easily report hateful content. Social media networks must “provide and maintain a clear and easily accessible mechanism for individual users to report incidents of hateful conduct.” Or simply have the ability to do so?

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales. She criticises the judgment because the Court based its reasoning solely on privacy without any justifications rooted in property rights.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. The petitioner sought to exercise the right to privacy on behalf of her late aunt, J.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Normally trademark owners aren’t third-party beneficiaries of that contract. The mandatory reporting of products’ country of origin is a liability trap. Who Cares About Privacy? The WHOIS system has collapsed due to the GDPR, which exposed how the WHOIS system was highly privacy-invasive.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2022

Background Reports Protected by Section 230–Dennis v. Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Advertising “Background Reports” on People–Lukis v. The post Lawyer’s Agreement to Online Terms if Investigating a Claim May Bind a Client appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. PeopleConnect, Inc. , 21-35690 (9th Cir.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Speaking of this topic, I can’t miss Bedaquiline , the first new drug to receive approval to treat tuberculosis (TB) in over 40 years, which raised serious questions about its marketing approval without mandatory Phase III clinical trials in India and around informed consent of Indian patients. Corruption in IP Offices, Anything New?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

By engaging in this content moderation, the platforms develop particular market niches, foster different sorts of online communities, and promote various values and viewpoints. ” To the extent this provision restates the contract amendment requirement that users must be told before any TOS amendments take effect (see, e.g., Douglas v.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 17, 2021

provides data collection and maintenance software solutions for administration, fundraising, marketing, and analytics to social good entities such as non-profit organizations, foundations, educational institutions, faith communities, and healthcare organizations.” Ramirez gets further assimilated into the law. Blackbaud (good name!)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

an “acceptable use policy,” including “the types of content allowed on the social media platform,” “the steps the social media platform will take to ensure content complies with the policy,” and how users can report illegal or AUP-violative material. Consistent content moderation is an oxymoron.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 13, 2022

One of the websites tracking NFT sales reported that the total number of sales made within a week varies from 15,000 to 50,000. The entertainment industry has utilized this opportunity to maximize its profits and fan following by using smart marketing strategies around the NFT hype. The NFT sale volume totalled $94.09

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, regulated entities do not include review websites and “Comments incidental to content posted by an established and widely recognized media outlet, the primary purpose of which is to report news and current events.” Yost appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Kuklinski v.

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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. Rivals * MIT Technology Review : This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (regarding “Nightshade”) Privacy * FTC v. Consumer Reviews * Route App, Inc.

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