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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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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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 14, 2022

Navigating Brand Protection and Trademarks for Social Media Influencers. Building a brand or business as an influencer on social media is not easy. In this article, we share best practices for social media influencers to protect their brand, reputation, and business through trademark registration and prudent use.

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Olartemoure Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Seeking to mitigate the impact on the media industry, the Canadian parliament recently passed a law requiring technology companies, social networks, and search engines to get licenses for sharing local news content.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 24, 2023

Introduction Shutterstock is a global provider of licensed images, videos, audio and editing tools, that has revolutionized the way visual content can be accessed and used. Content creators contribute their work to the platform, making it available for licensing, while end users can easily browse, license and utilize them.

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LexBlog IP

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?

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The study represents the second phase of a project already started in 2019, which led to the publication of its first phase named " Automated Content Recognition: Existing technologies and their impact on IP " in November 2020.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

( head nod to Judge Friendly ). * * * The plaintiff licenses a photo database to grocery stores for $12k/yr. Chicken Joe’s, an Albany NY-based restaurant “reposted” @WGNAFM’s post, which apparently included the photo in question, to its “social media” page.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The post All of Trump’s Social Media Lawsuits Now Have Been Transferred to the Defendants’ Home Courts–Trump v. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. .” In response to Trump’s feeble attempts to keep his cases in his home court, courts be like: Case citation : Trump v.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The social media website formerly known as Twitter is telling a federal court in California that negotiations with the new company that owns thousands of TiVo-related patents have "reached an impasse" as Elon Musk's company no long wants to pay $3 million a year for patented technology that X says it doesn't use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” Katherine Von Drachenberg (“Kat Von D”) is a celebrity tattoo artist.

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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. In August, Japanese publishers filed a motion in a California court to have US-based technology companies turn over information related to a series of manga piracy sites.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 30, 2024

I’d like to start the conversation by following up on the technology concepts covered in your webinar. What is it about the technology involved in LLMs that creates a copyright concern? What role might CCC play in licensing for AI applications? We offer various licensing models. Our licenses evolve as technology evolves.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization. Looking Toward the Future.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 22, 2024

The court says: “Federal courts have uniformly rejected attempts to treat…social media companies as state actors under Section 1983.” Facebook Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors Government Jawboning Doesn’t Turn Internet Services into State Actors–Doe v. AOL, Ebeid v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In Arkansas, a law requiring parental consent before minors sign up for social media accounts didn’t survive intermediate scrutiny. These rulings may seem obvious given the precedent, but they are confirming that technological and social changes over the intervening years have not changed the results.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The information that companies need to make the right decisions can vary widely, but clinical trials, technology transfer offices, patent, conference, and competitive company information, and global regulatory, corporate, and organization news all offer data from which insights can be derived.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. s losses in connection with “attempting to conduct internal investigations in efforts to ascertain the nature and scope of CCDH’s unauthorized access to the data,” are not technological in nature. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Dragons’ ears pricked up when Peter told them that the company had joined the popular social media channel TikTok, where three of their videos had gained 27.7 IP can be ‘licensed-out’ or ‘licensed-in’. You can ‘license-out’ to another company in return for a fee. million views.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 4, 2023

The vote has sparked heated debates on social media, including mistaken insistence by some that the bill does not affect user content (it clearly does) or that it will censor what Canadians can say online (it will not). The bill continues with Section 4.2, which gives the CRTC the instructions for creating those regulations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Definition of “Hateful conduct” means “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2021

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules. The lawmakers don’t mention any incentives or repercussions in the letter but do stress that it would be best if Twitter enters into licensing agreements with copyright holders. Late last year the social media platform infuriated U.S. Music Lobby.

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Velocity of Content

OCTOBER 20, 2021

But, as an article in MIT Technology Review points out , ML is the brains behind “recommendation systems like those on Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify; search engines like Google and Baidu; social-media feeds like Facebook and Twitter; voice assistants like Siri and Alexa.” In other words, ML provides the magic ( !?!)

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. for a ‘lifetime’ license. You agree that as a condition of your license, you will not: i. People Want to Download and Keep Movies & TV Shows.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

ICS provider: “message boards and social media sites qualify as ‘interactive computer services.'” Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Third party content: Plaintiff “is responsible for the creation of his tweets, which were circulated via Twitter.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Studies have shown significant improvement in results from TDM research using full-text articles, which are often behind a paywall or subject to additional licensing, rather than mere abstracts, which are often more freely available. Many of the projects described below use this basic function of TDM in various specific applications.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Similar to celebrity-filled ads, collaborative relationships between influencers and companies on social media continue to be prevalent. Like Patrick + Brittany and Travis + Taylor: Partnerships Are Key Nowadays, celebrities and social media influencers are more business savvy. Edited by Coby Turner and Cathy Feldman

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 7, 2022

Here, plaintiffs offer only ambiguous and open-ended statements to the effect that “we may legislate” something unfavorable to Twitter or the social media sector. ” Florida Social Media Censorship Law. The new answer: buy a social media company (see also MySpace and Tumblr ). ” Implications.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

This is one of the dozens of lawsuits alleging that social media services addict kids. In a statement sure to spook every social media service, the court finds “the forum selection clause invalid because it is procedurally unconscionable, substantively unconscionable, and unenforceable against a minor.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. See generally, Christopher A.

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IP Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

On June 14, a series of 17 music publishers, members of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Tennessee against the social media platform, Twitter.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The court explains this and other differences from Aereo: “Aereo involved a system designed for the sole purpose of transmitting the subject content and which had no plausible utility, in that configuration, other than the transmission of that content, whereas X/Twitter is a social media site with a range of potential uses.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

NY Times : Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S. 2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” Marketing. *

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