Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Today’s example is AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Before we get overwhelmed by the bill’s details, I’ll highlight three crucial concerns: First, the bill pretextually claims to protect children, but it will change the Internet for EVERYONE. Age-Appropriate Design Code.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Its AI is designed to detect and prevent crimes. Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

of global trade; and in a recent EU IPO report, it was found that as many as 1 in 3 people have been misled into buying counterfeits. Exclusions from exhaustion rights, coupled with other IP rights such as copyright and design right, mean that even a well-intentioned ‘upcycler’ could find themselves infringing.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

NY Times : What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media. * NY Times : Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump. * “ False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.” Alba Web Designs, LLC, 2021 WL 280065 (W.D. Facebook, Inc.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Millions across the globe have flocked to Instagram Threads – the newest social media platform on the block. Designed as a direct competitor to Twitter, Threads is being marketed to Instagram’s 2.35 They are used by criminals to prey on unsuspecting social media users. billion- strong user base [1].

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That online harms consultation envisioned measures such as takedowns without due process, automated reporting to law enforcement, and website blocking. The services must also make their data available to researchers, which can be valuable but also raises potential privacy and security risks. Now to the bill with a mini FAQ.

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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

Facebook) was liable under several provincial privacy statutes for using class members’ likenesses without their consent. . Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g.

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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.”

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After a review for grammatical, editorial, and translation issues, the committee is expected to finalize its report back to the Senate later today. designed to scope out user content from CRTC regulation, consistent with the government’s stated intent. Added a right of privacy and a requirement (5(2)(g) of protecting privacy.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Fair Credit Reporting Act. From the start, think about ways to improve your data set, design your model to account for data gaps, and – in light of any shortcomings – limit where or how you use the model. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Watch out for discriminatory outcomes.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 10, 2022

It seeks to support the development of the right to freedom of speech, right to dignity and equality, and the right to privacy in the digital age, through rigorous academic research, policy intervention, and capacity building. Managing social media accounts and maintaining a social media calendar and database of disseminated content.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Fair Credit Reporting Act. From the start, think about ways to improve your data set, design your model to account for data gaps, and – in light of any shortcomings – limit where or how you use the model. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Watch out for discriminatory outcomes.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. The defendants to be required to implement, maintain, regularly review and revise as necessary a threat management program designed to appropriately monitor the defendants’ information networks for threats.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

Over the years, the FTC has issued many 6(b) studies, ranging from the annual studies of cigarette and tobacco marketing to a 2021 study on internet service provider privacy issues to a 2018 study on mobile security issues. So do not expect reports on the new topics for quite a long time.

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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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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. And although we shook our heads in disapproval, I suspect many attorneys were grateful to Mr. Schwartz.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2021

It seeks to protect and expand the right to freedom of speech, right to dignity and equality, right to assembly and association, and the right to privacy in the digital age, through rigorous academic research, policy intervention, and capacity building. Responsibilities. Analyst and Project Officer. with Senior Staff members.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It has removed billions of reported infringing links and since 2012 has been downranking pirate sites, something that hit torrent portals particularly hard. Just a day after the complaint was filed, a Washington court issued a temporary restraining order designed to cripple Kiss Library. Whois Privacy Corp., Whois Privacy Corp.,

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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. We need more of that.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 17, 2024

A Mostly Accurate Report, One Pivotal Claim As far as we can determine, El País broke the story after gaining access to the court order handed down by a Barcelona court in February. In almost all respects, the article accurately reports the information contained in the order. 8 of Barcelona. .”

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Reporting suggests that negotiations have been difficult, as the institutions try to strike a balance between adequately protecting fundamental rights which could be impacted by AI, and allowing sufficient space for innovation and development of the technology and maximising the commercial and social benefits of AI.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. The Karnataka and Orissa High Courts too have dealt with similar matters.

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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. The news is replete with reports of brand owners—including McDonald’s , Crocs , and CVS —launching promotional NFT Drops or filing trademark applications covering NFTs.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

In this post , Varsha Jhavar analyses the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report ’s (hereinafter the Report) recommendations for ‘revisiting of IPR legislations and implementing a strong IPR framework’ in order to ‘extract benefits from AI’. John Doe & Anr. 9 August, 2021]. The Delhi High Court in Star India Pvt.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2023

Fair Credit Reporting Act. From the start, think about ways to improve your data set, design your model to account for data gaps, and – in light of any shortcomings – limit where or how you use the model. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

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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. The news is replete with reports of brand owners—including McDonald’s , Crocs , and CVS —launching promotional NFT Drops or filing trademark applications covering NFTs.

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43(B)log

JUNE 30, 2023

Chair: Martin Senftleben Impulse Statement: Sebastian Felix Schwemer Recommendation systems; transparency is the approach to recommender systems, which intersects with privacy/data protection. Media pluralism in DSA can be broadened to say there’s value in pluralism generally: DSA doesn’t tell you how to do things.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

These trends are expected to continue though challenges remain, such as the balance between the need for health-related data to train AI models and privacy and ethical concerns in using such data. *. The Mayo Client removes all identifying patient information to protect privacy. Detecting atrial fibrillation (a-fib) sooner.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Cloudflare, Alissa Starzak: Tech measures used by platforms do not work for infrastructure providers and could have profound impacts on privacy and security.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Celebrities may collaborate on designing the product. Bill McGeveran: interesting b/c privacy/data protection regimes are very different in the two regimes.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

DSA: they’re designer, adjudicator, rights protector, systemic risk avoider—much more detailed, rule-oriented role if they choose DSA path. Don’t assume that Brussels and California effect that occurs w/privacy also occurs when corps can adjust tech granularly. Bradford’s four examples of the Brussels Effect v. Which regime to choose?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He identified several lessons: the value of “open architectures” and “relatively neutral infrastructure” the Internet is capable of being used for pro- and anti-social uses. ” “We must engage boldly not only in corporate and social responsibility, but also in technology and social responsibility.”

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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. Kochava, Inc., 2023 WL 3249809 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In Arkansas, a law requiring parental consent before minors sign up for social media accounts didn’t survive intermediate scrutiny. 31, 2023) Arkansas’ law says minors need parental consent before creating social media accounts. A simple goal to state, but virtually impossible to implement constitutionally.

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