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. It was that it pursued the wrong regulation.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Millions across the globe have flocked to Instagram Threads – the newest social media platform on the block. Designed as a direct competitor to Twitter, Threads is being marketed to Instagram’s 2.35 They are used by criminals to prey on unsuspecting social media users. billion- strong user base [1].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

” Publisher/Speaker Claims. The allegations expressly referenced the publication function, always a tipoff: “Counts VII and VIII allege that Match Defendants ‘published Plaintiff Alberts’ images, private activities, likeness, voice and/or identity on. Tinder social media channels.'”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Kogan made a similar post to her account : MedSpa and Kogan published the photo other times as well. If he is, either the clinic is violating medical privacy rules or 50 Cent consented to the disclosure, and that consent could potentially extend to the photo. Kogan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

For my thoughts about self-publishing an ebook casebook, see this article. I’ve now framed it as a note about California’s consumer privacy laws. I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Part 312, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s Regulations.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Rulemaking , May 2022. Books and Academic Articles. Blog Posts.

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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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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

” Publisher/Speaker Claims. ” This is the latest entry in the confusing jurisprudence about when 230 applies to first-party marketing representations that are rendered untrue by users’ activities. . “Plaintiffs do not meaningfully challenge Defendants’ status.” Despite Doe v. Case citation : Bride v.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2021

The UK IPO has also published the results of last year’s consultation on the review of the IP enforcement framework. Common Market Law Review has announced the 2021 Prize for Young Academics. The winning essay will be published in Common Market Law Review and will also receive a monetary prize of 500 euros.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. 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. Ancestry , Knapke v.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Nepal Privacy Act was passed in September 2018. The Privacy Act, which implemented the constitutional right to privacy, had a big influence on how personal information was used legally. It also penalizes offences such as cyber terrorism, publishing/display of obscene materials, acts against morality etc.,

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” As noted above, a webpage openly published on the Internet still requires a viewer to click on its URL before it may be seen. March 29, 2023). Bar associations, do better.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. Known for producing some of the best triggers in the market, the company continues to push the boundaries of firearms technology.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * 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.” targeted social media advertising. Comptroller , No.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 11, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. Rolex has had a patent application published revealing their latest development to grace this industry.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Starting in 2018, Shared “lost access” to the instant articles program three times, each time (allegedly) without advance notice despite the applicable TOS saying Facebook “will use good faith efforts to provide Publisher with notice of” any termination.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-6435b7e7c5b7a9423{display: Now, here’s where it gets interesting. important;}.vc_custom_1622758473416{background-87af4c

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LexBlog IP

JULY 26, 2022

The terms “sell side” or “supply side” generally refer to those looking to sell media space to advertisers; for example, a publisher that owns and operates a website with advertising space available to sell. Ad servers play a big role and are used by both publishers and advertisers.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

I demonstrate with examples how copyright policies of many state governments restrict the very access that the State Boards publishing textbooks were meant to facilitate. In India, Twitter has lost its intermediary role and is now editorially liable for the content that users publish. In light of Twitter blocking IT Minister R.S.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. By embracing these new advancements, businesses can streamline their operations, improve the customer experience, and ultimately thrive in an increasingly competitive market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

To do the authentication, businesses will be forced to collect personal information they don’t want to collect and consumers don’t want to give, and that data collection creates extra privacy and security risks for everyone. Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. You need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it on the market. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. You need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it on the market. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

For my thoughts about self-publishing an ebook casebook, see this article. Privacy Review: 16 C.F.R. Part 312, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s Regulations Overview of the E.U.’s s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and State Consumer Privacy Laws In re. Social Media People v.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2023

The rapid rise of AI used with advertising, marketing and other consumer facing applications has caused the FTC to continue to take notice and issues guidance. You need to know about the reasonably foreseeable risks and impact of your AI product before putting it on the market. It has issued AI-related guidance in the past.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Prescreening won’t fix that; and the ability to pick-and-choose comments to publish might exacerbate censorial tendencies. Thus, I think most government-operated online commenting venues, especially on social media, will be characterized as designated public forums–with all of the legal baggage that attaches to that status.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Instead, “the web took off as a medium with a few publishers and a lot of readers––and not the collaborative mind meld I had hoped for.” He concludes: “There is still a great deal of room for new developments to improve the safety, security, privacy, reliability and utility of the internet.” ” Chris Cox.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

That is akin to defending a censorship regime as regulating the conduct of writing or publishing. For example, over the past few years, they published several essays that seemingly celebrated and advocated for clipping the First Amendment’s wings (I unfavorably critiqued one of those).

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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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IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

In 2020, the European Commission published a white paper on AI and stated therein the urgency to address the challenges of complexity, unpredictability, and autonomous behaviour of certain AI systems. Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training. Logging of activity to ensure traceability of results.

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