Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Compared to most social media ownership disputes, this case has featured extensive litigation, including an appeal, revised injunction, a contempt motion, and now, a motion to modify the scope of the preliminary injunction. The dispute is interesting in many ways–especially the fact that it’s been this heavily litigated.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

I’d love to see an accounting of the time and money the parties have spent on this litigation. Gutman Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee Ex-Employee’s Continued Use of Twitter Account May Be Conversion–Farm Journal v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This is a “serials crisis” i.e., a situation when rising subscription costs for scholarly journals exceed academic library budgets, hampering researchers’ access. I am not even wading into the Bogus Open Access Journals and The dark side of the scientific publishing industry ). One may ask – is open access a solution?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

If this litigation continues and defendants wish to repeat this argument, they should support their assertion that they own the Facebook page with authority. What about employee social media laws? Maryland enacted a social media privacy law in 2021. As with other such laws, this law struggles with definitions.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 14, 2022

Pina D’Agostino is the Founder and Director of IP Osgoode, the IP Intensive Program, and the IP Innovation Clinic, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the IPilogue, the Deputy Editor of the Intellectual Property Journal, and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. Trademark Law. Parody in Trademarks is No Joke.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Gutman Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee Ex-Employee’s Continued Use of Twitter Account May Be Conversion–Farm Journal v. Johnson The Spectacular Failure of Employee Social Media Privacy Laws Do Employers Own LinkedIn Groups Created By Employees?–CDM

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

The district court granted an injunction that gave control over these key social media accounts to JLM during the pendency of the litigation. While it affirms the district court’s order, it remands with respect to the issue of who gets to control the social media accounts while the litigation is pending.

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