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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Blogging Contracts Copyright Law Copyright 90

Patently-O

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

policy premium might offer a guarantee of 80% recovery, or $80m, if the appeal results in a settlement, or if full recovery is otherwise stymied—remand, lack of collectability, or another adverse intervening event. 2] In this example—taken from a pitch—a $12.5m But anything much higher than that seems, to most in the field, foolish.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

Bungie Asks Court For More Time Earlier this month, Bungie was awarded over $16 million against a single defendant, with claims spanning copyright law, breach of contract, and civil RICO violations. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He has not transacted any business in Virginia or contracted to supply services or things in Virginia.” In August, the parties already informed the court that they were working on a settlement, which has since been finalized. website we don’t see these changes reflected in the company’s privacy policy yet.

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Settlement Technology IP Copyright 143

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In response, the VPN announced that it would stop using US-based servers, to ensure the privacy of its users. The settlement didn’t end the lawsuit completely as the anonymous operators of Popcorntime.app were targeted in the same case. Filmmakers Demand Millions and More.

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Copyright Infringement Copying Reporting Copyright 127

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A settlement agreement was reached where Elation could inspect the software developed by Shi and prevent the use of any trade secrets or confidential information. The jury also found Shi breached the settlement agreement. Elation could then reinspect the software both before and after the first sale of the product by Shi. 2d 630, 632.)

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 103

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

If anything, the Second Circuit musings give the parties more to fight over, rather than providing enough clarity to estimate the Coase Theorem entitlement and facilitate a settlement. Johnson The Spectacular Failure of Employee Social Media Privacy Laws Do Employers Own LinkedIn Groups Created By Employees?–CDM

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2022

Before doing that, the statute requires the agency to send the penalty complaint (and settlement, if one exists) to the Department of Justice, and the DOJ then has 45 days to either file the case itself or return it to the FTC for prosecution. Well, as my contracts professor used to say, “Always read to the end of the statute.”

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Settlement Blogging Privacy Law 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Teami ($15 million settlement, all but $1 million suspended), where there were other bad things like fighting cancer claims and also nondisclosure by influencers like Cardi B. Kelly Harris: In Canada, Competition Bureau brought enforcement action against FB for misleading privacy representations even though it’s a free service.

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Advertising Advertising Law Privacy 40

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

In the case of Alice Corp v CLS Bank International, the US Supreme Court in 2014 held that claims to a computer-associated technique of mitigating “settlement risk” in various financial transactions were barred from patenting. However, are the blockchain technologies really patentable?

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Standing makes him nervous b/c of privacy. Privacy/consumer protection: FTC has jerry-rigged a guardianship of the public interest; California also passed a specific law with a specific agency (which Eric Goldman loves). There was a settlement over validity v. The danger is distortions of the parody/satire line in ©.

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