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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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society is inviting submissions for Volume 102 of the journal. For further deatils, please see the announcement below: Call for Submissions: The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. Logo of Patent & Trademark Office Society.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

As artificial intelligence, also known as “AI” becomes more of a household word, it is worth pointing out not only how cool it can be, but also how some uses raise privacy concerns. Examples of this are evident in the massive explosion of smartphones and social media.

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

muddies the waters again, challenging orders from privacy authorities in British Columbia and testing current Canadian privacy law. In February 2021, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“the Commissioner”) released a report on Clearview AI, Inc. 17) of personal information. Legal action in British Columbia. 11), use (s.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2023

Indeed, private companies conducting their own anti-piracy investigations today have the ability to peer into private lives as they go about protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights. This information spans the most basic of identifiers, such as a name, through to suspects’ leisure time activities.

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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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In the intellectual property (IP) space, there has been explosive growth in this area, with AI-based patent filings addressing trending areas, including disease identification and diagnosis, drug discovery, personalized medicine, and clinical trials, among others. The Mayo Clinic has a database of more than 7 million ECG records.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are several ways, but one common way is for a fraudster to set up a fake website that spoofs a real business, or spoofs a recruiter from a legitimate business by copying their information from a social media platform.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2024

It found that the Act’s prohibitions, such as the collecting, sharing, or selling of personal information for age-profiling or other purposes, “limits the ‘availability and use’ of information by certain speakers and for certain purposes and thus regulates protected speech.”

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over 3 billion images from various social media platforms and other online sources to create a facial recognition database.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Identifying initial privacy concerns in this new era. Imagine a lifestyle videogame but with real repercussions: you can buy and trade goods, attend concerts, engage in social events and even work. Privacy commissioners from the North American country have identified unlawful mass surveillance and collection of biometric data.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 31, 2021

For information on the Liberals and Green Party, check out Shawn’s article. Support the Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights Waiver (TRIPS) to waive IP rights for COVID vaccines and ensure technology transfer between nations. Media Policy . Privacy Policy. COVID-Related Trade Policy. Data Policy.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the overwhelming majority adopting cloud computing resources and the prevalent practice of storing data in the cloud, it is evident that cloud computing has emerged as the predominant model for computer and information technology services worldwide. The key to securing cloud-based storage is encryption.” [5]

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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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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

” Scammers also try to use social media platforms for the same purpose – to scam users out of money or personal information. No matter what, the government will not call you or email you asking you for money or your personal information. If you are not eligible, you will not receive any such communication.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

If a data set is missing information from particular populations, using that data to build an AI model may yield results that are unfair or inequitable to legally protected groups. Every year, the FTC holds PrivacyCon, a showcase for cutting-edge developments in privacy, data security, and artificial intelligence.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This Section also provides that right holders shall be informed about this type of use of their works and shall be entitled to ask the exception’s beneficiary to implement more stringent security measures.

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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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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

If a data set is missing information from particular populations, using that data to build an AI model may yield results that are unfair or inequitable to legally protected groups. Every year, the FTC holds PrivacyCon, a showcase for cutting-edge developments in privacy, data security, and artificial intelligence.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share information about website users with social media platforms such as Meta (formerly Facebook), they are now eyeing other industries, including the fast food industry.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. For more information on The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With a running time of just 15 seconds it’s certainly short, but if a campaign wanted to target social media and/or search engine users looking for something in particular, dropping in something like this would make perfect sense. Illegal streaming can let criminals into your devices and network.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 17, 2024

Orders handed down by courts presiding over novel intellectual property cases routinely convey clear instructions, regardless of underlying complexity. In almost all respects, the article accurately reports the information contained in the order. 8 of Barcelona. At this point clarity becomes even more important.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

First, generative AI is only as good and accurate as the information on which it was trained. A brand that uses material generated by AI in a public-facing manner – such as in an ad or a social media post – could run the risk of infringing on another’s rights, for which the brand could be held liable.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

The court therefore concluded that Belle Cosmetics sufficiently alleged that the list of network salespeople and customers was sufficient to constitute confidential information.

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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. In order to conduct such a study, 6(b) orders are issued to companies requesting information.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

In this edition of #InterestingPatents, we look at Snap’s recently patent: Custom Visual Codes For Network Links Navigating the vast world of social media has just become easier and more visually engaging, thanks to a recent patent granted to Snap Inc. Looking for more information on patents ?

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

b) The world’s largest social media, intervened in a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S. states, for illegal monopolization of the personal social network market, because of the acquisitions of two communication network sites. You can take control of the litigation.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. The combination of that information could constitute the disclosure of confidence if that information, taken together, would allow a third party to recreate the confidence.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

In this post , we informed our readers about an announcement from LexisNexis Intellectual Property that LexisNexis Reed Tech will continue to provide patent data and document management services to the USPTO for the next 10 years. She concludes that empathy is also, and should be, a part of this competitive world.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Our diverse IPilogue Team continued to blog throughout the summer and constitutes to be an important part of IP Osgoode’s team and vision of fostering diverse views on intellectual property and technology matters. For more information about submitting articles to the IPilogue, click here. by the end of the day today.

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Varsha reported the significant development that the Delhi High Court issued a press release stating its plan to create an Intellectual Property Division (IPD) in the Delhi High Court. We informed our readers that The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society is inviting submissions for Volume 102 of the journal.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases. Callahan v.

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