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.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Included in a standard AUP are clauses specifying the purpose and scope of the policy, the user’s rights and responsibilities, acceptable uses, prohibited uses, and privacy standards. Report any suspicious behavior you may see on the network. Some websites that companies tend to restrict are : Social media. Pornography.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. Reddit or X (Twitter) data for ChatGPT) and which try to ban AI data scraping via technical tools and contractual terms (see class action against OpenAI for privacy and copyright infringement).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2021

Clubhouse , the former invitation-only social media darling that captured the attention of investors, social media early adopters, and competitors since its introduction in April 2020, now faces significant challenges as it strives to remain relevant and attract new and engaged users. To date, Clubhouse has 30.2

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila.

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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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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling. This doesn’t sound so great.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks.

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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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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With around 90% of the search market, Google is regularly criticized by rightsholders for allowing infringing content to appear in its search results. It has removed billions of reported infringing links and since 2012 has been downranking pirate sites, something that hit torrent portals particularly hard. Whois Privacy Corp.,

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LexBlog IP

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling.

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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. Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Advertising “Background Reports” on People–Lukis v. Callahan v. PeopleConnect, Inc., 2021 WL 5050079 (N.D. Whitepages.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The case relates to CCDH reports showing Twitter’s struggles with hate speech and misinformation following Musk’s changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies. These reports allegedly caused advertisers to pause their Twitter advertising campaigns, starving Twitter of much-needed revenues. 3:23-cv-03836-CRB (N.D.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

In this post , Varsha Jhavar analyses the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report ’s (hereinafter the Report) recommendations for ‘revisiting of IPR legislations and implementing a strong IPR framework’ in order to ‘extract benefits from AI’. John Doe & Anr. 9 August, 2021]. The Delhi High Court in Star India Pvt.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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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. Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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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. Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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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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Michael Geist

JULY 30, 2021

When combined with plans for a new data commissioner, privacy tribunal, and the expanded CRTC under Bill C-10, the sheer amount of new Internet governance is dizzying. The government envisions pro-active monitoring and reporting requirements that could have significant implications.

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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. which mention the word/mark ‘CrossFit’ from all social media webpages [8 July 2021]. Topical Highlight.

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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. Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He identified several lessons: the value of “open architectures” and “relatively neutral infrastructure” the Internet is capable of being used for pro- and anti-social uses. ” “We must engage boldly not only in corporate and social responsibility, but also in technology and social responsibility.”

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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. So do not expect reports on the new topics for quite a long time.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 13, 2022

After a review for grammatical, editorial, and translation issues, the committee is expected to finalize its report back to the Senate later today. Added a right of privacy and a requirement (5(2)(g) of protecting privacy. Added requirement that CRTC table its reports in Parliament. What comes next?

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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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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

These trends are expected to continue though challenges remain, such as the balance between the need for health-related data to train AI models and privacy and ethical concerns in using such data. *. The Mayo Client removes all identifying patient information to protect privacy. Detecting atrial fibrillation (a-fib) sooner.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Florida made a splash enacting its social media censorship bill SB 7072 , only to have a federal district court immediately enjoin it. the Texas legislature tried to one-up Florida with HB 20 , its own social media censorship bill. Undeterred by Florida’s futility (and perhaps envious of it?),

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Restrictions on advertising vegan products as meat survives First Amendment challenge because the court accepts the state’s interpretation that it only applies to “misleading” marketing, which the court says is outside the First Amendment. The final version of the INFORM Consumers Act. * Kochava, Inc., 2023 WL 3249809 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

NY Times : What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media. * NY Times : Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump. * “ False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.” Kate Klonick , Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

Criteria favoring a Brussels Effect are market size controlled by regulator—a lot of firms want to compete there; regulatory capacity/institutional expertise; stringent standards. Traditionally supported a highly segmented, explicitly territorial market approach by multinationals. Bradford’s four examples of the Brussels Effect v.

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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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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. 31, 2023) Arkansas’ law says minors need parental consent before creating social media accounts. A simple goal to state, but virtually impossible to implement constitutionally.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2022

Last month, as part of BakerHostetler’s “Look Back, Look Ahead: Advertising and Marketing Law in 2021 & 2022” webinar series, partners Craig A. 4: Connecting Consumer Marketing to Antitrust. IoT (Internet of Things) concept. Prediction No. 3: Republican-Led Attorneys General Go It Alone. Prediction No.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 1, 2022

Last month, as part of BakerHostetler’s “Look Back, Look Ahead: Advertising and Marketing Law in 2021 & 2022” webinar series, partners Craig A. In 2021, a judge rejected several California counties’ challenges to opioid medication marketing materials. 5: Marketing to Minors. Takeaway No. Takeaway No.

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