Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Paxton, the Challenge to Texas’ Social Media Censorship Law appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Amicus Briefs. All of the submitters are repeat players from the Florida litigation. Declaration from Technology Network. NetChoice/CCIA complaint. Text of HB 20. My blog post.

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Social Media Law Television Reporting 112

The IPKat

MARCH 1, 2024

On 22 February 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) released its report on “ The impact of complicit social media influencers on male’s consumption of counterfeit goods in the UK ”. 24% of UK males aged 16 to 60 purchase counterfeit goods under the endorsement of social media influencers.

Social Media 62

Social Media Reporting Intellectual Property Publishing 62

The TTABlog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The TTAB upheld three refusal to register the proposed mark POSITIVE ONLINE PRESENCE for "Providing marketing consulting in the field of social media." Affirming the first two refusals,genericness and failure-to-function, was a snap, because the applicant presented no argument regarding them on appeal.

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Marketing Marketing Social Media Advertising 70

The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One of my first mantras when I started this blog was I hate Twitter, but that was shorthand for the broader view that social media is a trainwreck. Of course, the existential difficulty presented by these platforms is that while they can be highly toxic, as long as the market remains, one must have a […].

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The TTABlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As to the goods and services, the opposer application is limited to presentation of works of literature and art for cultural and educational purposes. As to the marks, the Board found them "more similar than dissimilar in appearance and connotation. as they both suggest a publication that seeks to improve or better oneself."

Art 70

Art Social Media Registration Journalism 70

Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Second, the CAB wants to massively increase the platform revenues that are calculated as part of the minimum of 4% of search or social media revenues. The draft regulations feature specific numbers for both search and social media, but the CAB didn’t even bother to include a proposed threshold for news aggregators.

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Social Media Editing Government Law 135

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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Social Media Privacy Law Government 143

Michael Geist

AUGUST 8, 2023

More notably, the media outlets argument for Meta’s “substantial control” of the market simply doesn’t make any sense. They argue that because it is the largest social media company, “Meta effectively has substantial control over access to Canadian news and also, more generally, on the news industry in Canada.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

“Plaintiff presents no facts evidencing Twitter’s actual use of [plaintiff’s ideas] or any money made from such use.” ICS provider: “message boards and social media sites qualify as ‘interactive computer services.'” Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The American video and photo sharing social media platform Instagram has been accused of copying Snapchat.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 21, 2022

Today’s world is growing so fast and we humans are becoming completely dependent upon the technology If you’ve spent any length of time on any social media site in the previous few years, you’ll recognise three facts. For starters, social media is become an essential marketing platform for the majority of firms.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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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.

Social Media 85

Social Media Privacy Designs Design 85

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

I can also share my presentation slides and lecture notes. e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. Social Media. Part 316 [[link]. Lopez (Cal. MySpace (5th Cir.).

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On August 23, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced it will continue to seek additional public comment on how children are increasingly being affected by digital advertising and marketing messages “that may blur the line between ads and entertainment.”

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Applicant pointed to five existing third-party registrations for marks containing the word SUNSET in arguing that the word "SUNSET" is a weak formative].

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Social Media Advertising Advertising Music 62

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Blogging Contracts Cease and Desist Social Media 94

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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. After an unexplained absence in 2021, YTS.mx reappeared in the report last year.

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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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Michael Geist

JUNE 23, 2023

The initial Bill C-11 consultations at the CRTC have resulted in some streaming services unsurprisingly responding to legislation that applies Canadian law to every service anywhere in the world by raising the prospect of exiting the Canadian market if not granted exemptions.

Social Media 96

Social Media Government Privacy Television 96

IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

the TOKYO 2020 EMBLEM ) are protected as an official mark but not under the OPMA, which may present difficulties as certain businesses look to the OPMA to check their compliance. . Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content.

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Intellectual Property Social Media IP Trademark 106

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Her inability to control social media accounts referencing her reminded me of the Hayley Paige Gutman litigation , and I will say more about this issue when I blog the JW Dant bourbon case. Esquared appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case citation : Coscarelli v. Esquared Hosp. , 18-CV-5943 (JMF) (S.D.N.Y.

Copyright 140

Copyright Social Media Copying Blogging 140

Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market for or Value of the Plaintiff’s Copyrighted Work.

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Fair Use Social Media Copyright Copyright Infringement 104

43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media.

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Fair Use Social Media Licensing Marketing 90

TorrentFreak

AUGUST 28, 2023

This has created a black market for pirated live streams which attract millions of users. Some use legitimate social media platforms to promote their content or abuse the live streaming capabilities of these services directly. .” This should exclude new users, or users with only a handful of followers, for example.

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Social Media Copying Trademark Branding 85

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moreover, reproductions of a social media post are clearly used for the purposes of reporting on the post where, as here, the reproductions include the accompanying elements of the social media application, such as the frame of the Instagram application and standard Instagram hyperlinks.

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Copyright Social Media Copyright Infringement Publishing 92

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the emergency application to restore the injunction against HB 20, Texas’ social media censorship law. Everyone knows “social media censorship” laws will require the Supreme Court’s review. Paxton appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Social Media Blogging Law Technology 122

IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

Social Media 106

Social Media IP Business Branding 106

Michael Geist

MAY 18, 2023

To pick just one of many examples, the Commission is consulting on the meaning of “social media service”: Q5. How should the Commission define “social media service”? What, if any, criteria should be used to assess whether an online undertaking is providing a social media service?

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Social Media Ownership Government Television 135

Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From a hair care revolution to dental hygiene for cats, the Den saw a variety of presentations, each with their own unique challenges and opportunities. We decided to have patents in as many markets as possible. A 'hair' brained invention, or revolutionary hair and scalp care? Your logo is an important aspect of your brand.

Blogging 64

Blogging IP Intellectual Property Designs 64

Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

And as for the payments from social media companies that the government insists are so essential that it has fought for years to include user content regulation in the bill? The CRTC and Social Media It is notable that much of this will not be decided by the government, but rather by the CRTC.

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43(B)log

APRIL 18, 2023

VPX argued that Monster didn’t show irreparable harm because: (1) the harms are purely economic; (2) VPX “abandoned any marketing focus on Super Creatine or creatine” before the jury rendered its verdict; and (3) VPX’s remediation obviates the need for an injunction. Are lost prospective customers and market share purely economic harms?

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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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Personality Rights Intellectual Property Social Media Intellectual Property Law 52

IPilogue

APRIL 26, 2022

The examiner opined that the mark does not depart significantly from other shapes for similar products in the market, which is the EUIPO’s pre-requisite for registering 3D marks. EUIPO’s examination guidelines dictate that letters present on 3D marks lends distinctive character to the mark.

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Social Media Registration Marketing Marketing 119

The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

v EUIPO | Case T-509/19) and the importance of presenting valid arguments for the existence of a link between the marks - even in the case of marks with an exceptional reputation ( Puma v EUIPO | Case T-71/20). Verena von Bomhard (BomhardIP) presented a summary of trade mark cases before the EU Courts in Luxembourg from 2021.

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Blogging IP Non-Fungible Tokens Cease and Desist 126

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Morford’s work had been displayed on social media, including YouTube, Facebook, and BlogSpot. We first made some marketing material where high tech faculty and staff wore banana costumes to celebrate the copyright battles over the costumes. Cattelan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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