LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Below are some of the key questions to think through to assess issues related to data use (privacy) and cybersecurity in esports.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 23, 2023

Bill C-18, the Online News Act, received royal assent yesterday, but any celebrations by the groups who lobbied for unprecedented government intervention into the news sector must surely have been tempered by the reality that quickly emerged. The mistake was not that the government pursued Internet regulation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

Music is also a vital component of social media platforms, as research displays that nine out of 10 social media users engage in a music related activity on their apps. Taking heed of the GDPR, in early 2020, California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The idea is that society benefits from more, and better, innovation if innovators don’t need the government’s approval. Those impact assessments will be freely available to government enforcers at their request, which means the regulators and judges are the real audience for those impact assessments.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Rulemaking , May 2022. Books and Academic Articles. NetChoice LLC v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

In this technologically advanced age, success or failure of a business depends heavily on the marketing strategies that have been adopted. A very common way of marketing a product is to have it advertised and endorsed by celebrities that the public holds in good opinion. and includes both commercial and non-commercial aspects.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. Early in 2019, the Nepali government proposed a comprehensive IT Bill to replace the current Electronic Transaction Act. Conclusion.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). The plaintiffs argue that such conduct would replicate that of Clearview.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. Publicity Rights Under Indian IP Law In India, there is no direct statute that governs publicity rights in the intellectual property law regime. Under this Act, Sec.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create. ” Click on the image to see the animation. June 6, 2022).

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

I argue that rewarding knowledge production and creative effort itself through maximising commercial advantage via exclusive rights are incentives that do not apply to government works whose primary motivation for creation is public dissemination. attempting to restrain imports of Vivint Smart Home Inc.’s

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LexBlog IP

JULY 26, 2022

In addition, the contractual agreements governing the sale, licensing and use of this data and technology can be quite complicated as well. The agreements governing transactions in this space must address the collection, ownership and use of this data. age, gender, travel enthusiast, sports enthusiast).

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

They discuss the best potential route for a compulsory license under the Indian Patents Act, and the ways in which the government can make the best use of it. Another factor that inhibits the government from using these levers is the fear of facing backlash from the Global North, especially the USTR’s 301 process. John Doe & Anr.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

To do the authentication, businesses will be forced to collect personal information they don’t want to collect and consumers don’t want to give, and that data collection creates extra privacy and security risks for everyone. Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy.

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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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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. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit.

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Michael Geist

JULY 30, 2021

The Canadian government released its plans yesterday for online harms legislation with a process billed as a consultation, but which is better characterized as an advisory notice, since there are few questions, options or apparent interest in hearing what Canadians think of the plans. How does the government intend to address these harms?

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s give you some insights as to What constitutes such infringement, what can be done against this, and the relevant laws governing such situations . Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Interesting right? Puttaswamy v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It operates a Facebook page entitled “ City of Sammamish – Government.” As one would expect from local governments creating speech policies, there are many obvious problems with the list. We’ve already seen how trying to moderate social media activity has become a liability trap for government actors.

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Moreover, with several royalty-free licenses provided by Eli Lilly to ramp up local manufacture, the availability of the drug in the market is likely to have risen and it is all the more difficult to argue that the patent has not been worked. which mention the word/mark ‘CrossFit’ from all social media webpages [8 July 2021].

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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. To do so requires a deliberate, judicious, and consistently well-executed commitment to leadership and governance.”

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

WEB3.0 – Decentralized Similar to the real world, the metaverse is not built or operated by a single entity, there are many stakeholders which include individuals, companies, governments etc. The conventional internet and social media, as we know it, is referred to as the Web2.0 – Data protection and privacy issues.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

.” The First Amendment “is not limited to traditional media, but extends to any entity that selects, arranges, and disseminates content, whether third-party or self-generated, and certainly covers entities that the government seeks to regulate because of the way they exercise their editorial discretion.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The state pretextually claimed this was an attempt to prevent China from siphoning off American private data, but the law was not a privacy initiative at all. This is especially apparent in that the same legislature enacted an entirely separate law that purports to broadly protect consumers’ digital data and privacy.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 31, 2021

This will include a robust arbitration process and the creation of IP right for article extracts shared on social media platforms. . Make sure that Netflix, Facebook, Google, and other digital media companies play by the same rules as Canadian broadcasters. Privacy Policy. Data Policy.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Added a right of privacy and a requirement (5(2)(g) of protecting privacy. Add a provision emphasizing market competition and consumer choice (amendment tied 7-7 so defeated). Target revenues from social media platforms to specifically support digital creators. Changed definition of “community element”.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The proposed AI Act will apply to providers marketing or operating AI systems on EU territory, irrespective of whether they are established in the EU or in a third country, and to AI users located in the EU, as well as to providers and users located in a third country when the information generated is used on EU territory.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In late October, Facebook announced that it would change its name to Meta , signaling a shift of the social media giant’s focus toward the metaverse , a virtual space where social media, gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, and cryptocurrencies converge and allow people to interact virtually with one another.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

The proposed AI Act will apply to providers marketing or operating AI systems on EU territory, irrespective of whether they are established in the EU or in a third country, and to AI users located in the EU, as well as to providers and users located in a third country when the information generated is used on EU territory.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Florida made a splash enacting its social media censorship bill SB 7072 , only to have a federal district court immediately enjoin it. the Texas legislature tried to one-up Florida with HB 20 , its own social media censorship bill. If you live in Texas, I’m sorry that your governance mechanisms are so broken.

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