Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See The court also found “Ms.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Today, social media has become a vital part of our lives. Before, there were various print media outlets that we could rely on such as newspapers, television, and radio. However, now, with the rise of social media, users can now create their own content and spread it with thousands of people. What is Social Media?

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 10, 2024

The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne , was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The post Site Blocking and Age Verification for Twitter, Instagram, Snap and Twitch?:

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

I’m continuing coverage of the legal challenge to Texas’ social media censorship law, now on appeal to the Fifth Circuit. And government cannot compel continued publication any more than it can compel initial dissemination. I recently rounded up the Texas opening brief and its supporting amici briefs. “H.B.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding? The post Server Test Showdown?

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TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2024

Any pirate site operating at scale risks negative attention from the authorities and once governments get involved, any movement in pressure is likely to be in an upwards direction. Our mainland China social accounts will be logged out within seven days. This is not just a simple farewell, but also a microcosm of an era.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

1: Sony Music Ends Copyright Fight with Gymshark Over Social Media Posts. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Sony Music and UK fitness apparel brand Gymshark have settled their lawsuit over Gymshark’s alleged use of Sony’s music in social media posts. However, the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

The bill applies to “social media platforms” that: “(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system created by the service. (B) ” This definition of “social media” has been around for about a decade, and it’s awful. Who’s Covered by the Bill?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Thus, it would compel those platforms to disseminate anything and everything with a “viewpoint,” including pro-Nazi speech, medical misinformation, terrorist propaganda, and foreign government disinformation. This kind of argumentation is how a government actor disingenuously repackages censorship. Amicus Briefs. Text of HB 20.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post. Chicken Joes delivers a piping hot reality check on the risks of playing copyright roulette. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That decision could have significant implications for this case as well as all other First Amendment challenges of states’ efforts to censor social media.] The analogy is an imperfect one—social media operators are arguably less involved in the curation of their websites’ content than these traditional examples.

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Kashishipr

MARCH 23, 2022

In this blog, we will understand how social media is becoming the new territory for cybersquatting and shed light on the steps to reduce the issue on different social media platforms. How Cybersquatters Tarnish a Brand on Social Media. While Tony La Russa (the former manager of the St.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Government’s Patent and Trademark Office to help tackle live-streaming piracy. Together with the NBA and UFC, the football league asked the government to make DMCA takedown requests more effective. This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

PETA objects to these experiments and commented on TAMU’s social media pages. TAMU claims that PETA’s comments were “spam” that violated TAMU’s social media policy. Vigorous government-performed content moderation is a euphemism for “perpetual lawsuit-making machine.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Among other problems, the law dictates how “social media platforms” can make their editorial decisions. Fortunately, a Florida federal judge blocked Florida’s social media censorship law as unconstitutional. This is not unique to social media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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Patently-O

MARCH 16, 2024

This recent decision from the Supreme Court case grapples with the issue of when a public official’s social media activity constitutes state action for purposes of a First Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. I’ve been following the case as part of my work on internet and media law issues. by Dennis Crouch Lindke v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs argued that the law “evidences a strong public policy to protect Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms.” But surprise! I hope it doesn’t.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Subsequently, the Committee published a report which set out a number of recommendations to Government [ Katpost here ] that included equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustments as well as referrals to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 24, 2024

… Continue reading "Tech Platforms and News Media: California Cuts a Deal with Google, While Meta Walks Free"

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Michael Geist

JUNE 9, 2023

The government released its long-promised draft policy direction on Bill C-11 to the CRTC yesterday. The policy direction is open for public comment until July 25, 2023, after which the government will release a final version that gives the CRTC guidance on its expectations for how the bill will be interpreted.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Regardless of your views of either Levant or Guilbeault, the principle that government ministers should not block access to their feeds given the implications for freedom of expression is an important one. Levant says that the government wanted him to sign a confidentiality clause in order to keep the settlement secret.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The results of this summer’s online harms consultation remains largely shrouded in secrecy as the Canadian government still refuses to disclose the hundreds of submissions it received. Many submissions also focused on concerns that the government’s plans will harm those that it seeks to protect.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 8, 2023

The Senate amendment crafted by Trudeau-appointed Senators Simons and Miville-Duchêne took the government at its word that their objective was to ensure sound recordings on services such as Youtube were caught by the bill.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. It is sad that as the bill nears passage, the government doesn’t seem to understand or misleads on the impact of its own legislation.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 18, 2022

The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage heard from a total of 48 witnesses as individuals or representing organizations during its study of Bill C-11 (excluding the CRTC and government officials). But the government went beyond just ignoring witness testimony yesterday in the House of Commons. was ignored. was ignored.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). This includes works originally uploaded to social media. First off today, a release by the U.S. Copyright Office announces that the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has launched its new website, ccb.gov.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By contrast, the inclusion of registration requirements for a wide range of undertakings, including some podcast services, online news sites, adult content sites, and social media left some characterizing it as a podcast registry or part of “one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes.” So what’s the reality?

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Despite repeated assurances from the government that “users are out, platforms are in”, the reality is that the bill kept the door open to regulating such content. ii) is required to be registered with the Commission but does not provide a social media service. It makes it very clear that social media users are not included.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Barbera filed the lawsuit, alleging that Cyrus posted a photo he took on her various social media presences. This comes at a time when the Russian government has given its approval for the infringement of various foreign copyrights, likely making it more difficult to target the sites.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Connecticut attorney general's office has reached a settlement with EnergyBillCruncher.com to resolve claims that it ran deceptive social media ads falsely claiming that the "government will cover the cost" of solar panel installation and improperly displaying the state seal.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about social media before making the jump. The basic idea behind Mastodon is to create a decentralized social networking platform that no one entity control. Some Mastodon Basics. Copyright Office site and one can register an agent easily.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated As they realize the bill’s implications, I’m hoping Minnesota parents will tell their Senators to scrap this effort. What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 1, 2024

Though many websites have attempted to prohibit AI data scraping of their content through their terms of use, a federal court clarified this year that the extent to which public data may be scraped from social media platforms should be governed by federal copyright law. By: ArentFox Schiff

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Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

Using the Access to Information Act, I have now obtained a copy of the government’s internal estimates for the economic and production impact of Bill C-11 ( methodology , memorandum , PPT ), which confirm many of my suspicions. This conclusion raises both the economic and cultural impact of the bill.

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