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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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Progress or Impediment? Global Privacy Law’s Impact on the Data-Driven Music Industry

LexBlog IP

The commercial use of personal data—accumulated via digital streams, online searches and applications that capture an individual’s musical tastes and listening habits —drives the way music is commoditized, consumed and promoted.

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Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? How the Music Industry Can Fight Back Against Generative AI

LexBlog IP

A new track by Drake and The Weeknd is going viral on social media and is bound to top the charts. All a user needs to do is record reference vocals, add musical background, and voila – it now sounds like it was written by Drake. Or, really, anyone in the music industry that the user chooses. Or The Weeknd.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc.

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Meta’s Anti-Piracy Deal: How Facebook & Broadcasters Kill Live Pirate Streams

TorrentFreak

For reasons that make absolutely no sense while somehow making perfect sense, millions of internet users think that social media platforms are perfect for piracy. Nevertheless, the masses love quick and easy so in common with similar platforms everywhere, social media has a piracy problem.

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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence in Music Creation

IP and Legal Filings

Abstract The near-seamless hybrid of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and music creation has sparked a fascinating and deeply complex legal question of late – who or what owns the melody; the human or the machine? Legally, when we talk about “music under copyright,” we’re referring to the ownership of the composition or recording itself.

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A Report from the White House’s Inaugural “Creator Economy Conference” (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Creators, a term which I and many in the creator economy agree includes influencers, is a unique and distinct set of end users that generate content on platforms (or online service providers or social media platforms). that more traditional entertainment and media groups have had for decades.”