IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products.

Business 131

Business Contracts Branding Brands 131

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.

Social Media 52

Social Media Intellectual Property Contracts Branding 52

IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Brands and agencies are responsible for ensuring that influencer behaviour on social media complies with ad disclosure rule. The ASA’s ads will alert consumers to the influencers’ failure to properly disclose their ads and will be targeted at the very same audiences that the social media personalities seek to influence.

Social Media 57

Social Media Advertising Advertising Branding 57

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Definition of “Hateful conduct” means “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

Social Media 110

Social Media Reporting Government Law 110

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The case relates to CCDH reports showing Twitter’s struggles with hate speech and misinformation following Musk’s changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies. These reports allegedly caused advertisers to pause their Twitter advertising campaigns, starving Twitter of much-needed revenues.

Litigation 86

Litigation Contracts Advertising Advertising 86

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.

Copying 102

Copying Copyright Law Copyright Social Media 102

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

This case involves Alex Berenson , a one-time NY Times reporter who drifted into #MAGAland. 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. Berenson sued Twitter. Section 230.

Social Media 108

Social Media Contracts Government Publishing 108

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Brands and agencies are responsible for ensuring that influencer behaviour on social media complies with ad disclosure rule. The ASA’s ads will alert consumers to the influencers’ failure to properly disclose their ads and will be targeted at the very same audiences that the social media personalities seek to influence.

Social Media 52

Social Media Advertising Advertising Branding 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

Platforms are also under the obligation to contract with the press publishers requesting so and pay them a fair remuneration. As a more or less direct result, posting and sharing of Italian press articles via social media comes now without picture previews. Under the Italian version of art.

Publishing 81

Publishing Contracts Social Media Art 81

SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2023

Supervise research and provide technical, editorial inputs and writing reports. Supervising communication strategy of the programme’s work and activities to various audiences through reports, outreach materials, social media, updates for newsletters, blogs, and websites etc. No additional benefits/perks will be provided.

Intellectual Property Law 98

Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Contracts Social Media 98

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The defendants faced claims of trafficking in circumvention devices under the DMCA, contract interference, and unfair competition. The court allowed the gaming company to conduct broad discovery against a number of services, including internet service providers, payment providers, and social media websites, to help put more meat on the bones.

Social Media 126

Social Media Contracts Copyright Infringement Copyright 126

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Another targets The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK nonprofit known for scraping the platform to quantify the proliferation of hate speech, for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, inducing breach of contract, and civil violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

Social Media 40

Social Media Contracts Privacy Advertising 40

The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Subsequently, the Committee Report on the Economics of Music Streaming has been published, calling for "a complete reset" of music streaming and the need for significant change within the music industry. The report nominates the remuneration to be paid by the rightsholders, (i.e. Explained here ].

Music 139

Music Contracts Reporting Government 139

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. Proximity to content that included hate speech resulted in some respondents reporting that the content made them like the advertiser less. Consumer Reviews * Route App, Inc. Heuberger , 2023 WL 5334192 (D.

Social Media 73

Social Media Privacy Advertising Advertising 73

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.

Copyright 92

Copyright IP Social Media Copyright Infringement 92

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 24, 2024

This marks the continuation of its recent activity to enforce SEC Rule 21F-17(a), a regulation that prohibits companies from taking any action to impede or discourage whistleblowers from reporting suspected securities violations to the SEC. with respect to such communications.”

Confidentiality 52

Confidentiality Cease and Desist Settlement Social Media 52

The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry by the Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee [ Katposts here ], which investigated the impact of music streaming on artists remuneration, as well as other issues around the fairness and sustainability of the wider music industry.

Music 130

Music Government Contracts Marketing 130

IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

The New York Times reported that a spokesperson for Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, confirmed that it removed Thompson-Hera’s video but claims her access to the app was mistakenly suspended. Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content.

Intellectual Property 106

Intellectual Property Social Media IP Trademark 106

IPilogue

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 million readers every issue in print and digital.

Journalism 80

Journalism Privacy Contracts IP 80

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

This marks the continuation of its recent activity to enforce SEC Rule 21F-17(a), a regulation that prohibits companies from taking any action to impede or discourage whistleblowers from reporting suspected securities violations to the SEC. with respect to such communications.”

Confidentiality 52

Confidentiality Cease and Desist Settlement Social Media 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

The firm analyzed “a variety of information sources, including chomping through 100,000 news reports in 65 languages a day” to recognize patterns between health outbreaks and travel (see also here ). HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 3d 87 (2d Cir.

Copyright 121

Copyright Social Media Publishing Licensing 121

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2022

First, Twitter adopted a “Civic Integrity Policy” and created a “Partner Support Portal,” a fast lane for governments and other trusted sources to report problematic election-related tweets. Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Baidu , Kronemyer v.

Social Media 134

Social Media Government Publishing Reporting 134

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. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law. Henderson v. Source for Public Data.

Law 114

Law Social Media Government Privacy 114

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. social media data), databases and trade secrets (e.g. most open source licenses provide a termination in case of breach of contract, which would impact the functioning of the AI model).

Licensing 103

Licensing Social Media Contracts Privacy 103

IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? “ Michelle (M): “ There are ways to get your [infringed] work taken down by filling out a copyright report.

Social Media 106

Social Media IP Business Branding 106

Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 17, 2023

The mapping of national legal sources of copyright flexibilities and their comparative analysis provided a detailed overview of the state of the art of copyright flexibilities in all the 27 Member States, organized in 27 national reports which illustrated national provisions using the same taxonomy applied to EU sources.

Reporting 52

Reporting Copyright Public Domain Copying 52

TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

In today’s social media-powered world, it would’ve been devasting. “Leone is an active member of the ‘ OGUsers ‘ account hacking and selling forum, where he sells (presumably stolen) social media accounts – and also ‘sells’ Destiny 2 emblems,” the complaint notes.

Social Media 129

Social Media Derivative Work Contracts Licensing 129

Corsearch

APRIL 19, 2023

Read insights from fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger and a leading social media consultant on how brands can raise awareness of the dangers of counterfeits and turn this into a positive message for change. Increasingly, Gen Z uses social media to purchase branded goods.

Branding 40

Branding Brands Branding Social Media 40

IP Tech Blog

MAY 19, 2023

According to the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport report on influencer culture , the global sector is expected to grow from $6.0 Parties : Consider the parties involved in the arrangement and ensure that the appropriate parties are reflected in any formal contracts. billion in 2020 to $24.1

Marketing 57

Marketing Marketing Branding Brands 57

Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

Having just read a new report from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO), this tradition is at serious risk. Under the IPO’s proposal, “Rights holders will no longer be able to charge for UK licences for TDM and will not be able to contract or opt-out of the exception.

Law 116

Law Licensing Publishing Intellectual Property 116

The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. There have also been complaints where creators have tried to NFT their own creativity but by doing so have breached a contract.

Non-Fungible Tokens 140

Non-Fungible Tokens Advertising Advertising Ownership 140

Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

These flaws rendered Bean’s opinions “unhelpful and inadmissible,” resulting in the court excluding his expert report. Hit me up in the comments below or on your favorite social media app @copyrightlately. facts) in his analysis, and for relying on subjective comparisons of the works.

Copyright 91

Copyright Copyright Infringement Social Media Licensing 91

LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

On February 4, 2022, the Treasury Department published its Study on the Facilitation of Money Laundering and Terror Finance Through the Trade in Works of Art (the “Report”). [1] Yet the Report also discussed how the art market remains susceptible to money laundering and describes how market participants can minimize this risk.

Art 52

Art Marketing Marketing Due Diligence 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In March 2020, she contracted a respiratory illness. Unsurprisingly, her posts prompted consternation in her local community because, at the time, her county had no officially reported COVID cases. A COVID test came back negative, but the doctor told her it may be a false negative and told her to quarantine.

Law 102

Law Social Media Government Contracts 102

43(B)log

JUNE 15, 2022

Shelf space is vital to energy drinks, and so they contract for it, overriding retailers’ allocation discretion. It Monster identified statements in social media posts, online marketing, press releases, and other advertisements at trade shows, expos, and in retail stores, as well as emails to retail and distribution partners.

False Advertising 59

False Advertising Advertising Advertising Contracts 59

TorrentFreak

JULY 25, 2023

In 2022, PSG reported losses of €368 million, with reports suggesting that Mbappe’s contract will end up costing the club around €630 million euros. Manchester United is almost a billion pounds in debt , and according to a recent report, the majority of all clubs in the UK are “ hugely loss-making.”

Law 74

Law Social Media Reporting Government 74

The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

Publishing 124

Publishing Copyright Related Rights Social Media 124