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Brand Owner Alert: New Social Media Platform Brings Opportunity and Potential Pitfalls

LexBlog IP

The new social media platform Threads was launched on July 5, 2023. Reports indicate that within the first day of launch, more than 30 million users have signed up. Although social media activity is largely concentrated on a few major platforms, new networks have continued to pop up and compete for users.

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Protecting Your Brand: How to Remove Counterfeits from X (formerly Twitter)

Corsearch

X (formerly Twitter) is one of the most popular social media platforms for businesses and individuals, with around 335 million monthly active users worldwide. Unfortunately, this global reach and accessibility to a large audience also attracts bad actors looking to exploit the popularity and features of social media platforms.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Trademark Infringement in the Digital Landscape The internet and digital technology have enabled new types of trademark infringement through channels such as cybersquatting, keyword advertising, and social media misuse, making it more challenging for companies to safeguard their intellectual property rights.

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Trademarks as a Barrier to Free-Speech: An Examination of the MetaBirkins Dispute

SpicyIP

The bulk of the judgement focussed on the non-commercial social-commentary aspect of the game to carve out an exception for such use, which may result in future courts holding non-commercial use as a necessary condition. The Indian counterpart of fair use in trademark law is embodied in Section 30 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999.

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Metaverse: Fashion Trademark Battles to Watch

JIPEL Copyright Blog

The most recent of them is the metaverse, and similar to what has happened to other parallel realities such as video games and social media, the metaverse is being invaded by fashion brands. The new gems being mined are the non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are already at the center of several trademark battles.

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New Tools, Old Rules: Is The Music Industry Ready To Take On AI?

Copyright Lately

” On April 26, UMG held an earnings call in which it reported that revenues rose 11.5% It’s a new issue and there’s been some fresh reporting on it with some recent developments. Artists also may own registered trademarks in their names for use as source identifiers. year over year to $2.71

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Artistic Expression or Crass Commercialism? Drawing the lines in Right of Publicity, Lanham Act, and Commercial Speech Cases

43(B)log

In Jack Daniels, the Court claimed that the likely confusion test “does enough work to account for the interest in free expression” in the context of trademark uses. But still outstanding in external reporting is AI provisions. But the Court today seems much less concerned about courts actually ordering people not to speak.