Corsearch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Unfortunately, this global reach and accessibility to a large audience also attracts bad actors looking to exploit the popularity and features of social media platforms. Selling counterfeit goods Bad actors may use fake accounts to promote and sell fake products, often imitating genuine brands or offering counterfeit merchandise.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

When bad actors are found, they should be banned and prohibited from reappearing on the service. The popular social media platform is used to discuss virtually every topic imaginable and pre-release music piracy is no exception. .” Copyright infringement is a problem on Reddit too, according to IFPI.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Topics ranged from the trends being seen in online fashion commerce post-pandemic, to counterfeiting issues and how to deal with them, through to the legal changes and updates coming up that will impact both marketplaces and the brands that use them.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Conducted by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the inquiry invited submissions from stakeholders on numerous topics, including the identification of barriers to maintaining and increasing overseas investment. That, or the information they can provide has clearly been stolen, falsified, is incomplete or otherwise misleading.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

The court says, per the term of the injunction, LinkedIn remains free to take steps to thwart “malicious activity” and “bad actors.” ” How does LinkedIn know who is a bad actor and who isn’t? Are we sure hiQ isn’t a bad actor? Comments from Kieran McCarthy.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And this move—firmly distinguishing source confusion from other kinds of confusion, this time with a statutory basis, would have salutary effects on free speech and competitive freedom to operate, which are topics I believe the other speakers will take up in more detail. Implicit line doesn’t survive move to explicitness. Paid out in Vans v.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 9, 2022

Gordon Humphreys noted something like this occurs in the EU, which some actors have used abusively. The panel discussed topics from the perspective of China, Germany, Europe, Japan, and the U.S., Spies noted the cost-effectiveness and timeliness of these proceedings would also impact the frequency of their use. Maria Strong (U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Twitter constructed a robust five-strike COVID-19 misinformation policy and, even if it applied those strikes in error, that alone would not show bad faith. It’s nice to see the judge distinguish erroneous and bad-faith applications of content moderation policies, especially on a motion to dismiss. Zuckerberg.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” “We’ve clearly entered an era of rapidly expanding global technology regulation—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing… We believe it is possible to both adapt to new rules and innovate successfully.” For a period, the bad actors could be managed or minimized. ” “these spaces have been in?ltrated

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Between the two decisions, we get a powerful opinion on the topic of “aiding and abetting” online, while Section 230 dodged its first SCOTUS review. To be sure, it might be that bad actors like ISIS are able to use platforms like defendants’ for illegal—and sometimes terrible—ends.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion tackles one of the hottest topics in Internet Law: do UGC services engage in editorial functions protected by the First Amendment? ” Elsewhere, the panel has this gem: “ private actors have a First Amendment right to be ‘unfair’—which is to say, a right to have and express their own points of view.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

2019) (“An ICS may not be held liable for so-called ‘neutral assistance’ or tools and functionality that are available equally to bad actors and the app’s intended users…To the extent Grindr contributes to the impersonating profiles, it is through such ‘neutral assistance.’”) ( purgandum ); Ynfante v. 3d 579, 589 (S.D.N.Y.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Lombardi, the Third Circuit found that the trial court properly exercised its discretion to limit injunctive relief to a single bad actor and not impose a broader injunction against the remaining individual defendants preventing them from otherwise lawfully competing. In Matthews Int’l Corp.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 4, 2022

This is a sensitive topic as became clear from the massive response to a public consultation published earlier this year. Reddit hosts thousands of large and vibrant communities that are centered around a wide range of topics. Mandatory Technical Protection Tools. A few weeks ago the Copyright Office launched a follow-up consultation.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

But that is a broader topic for another day and was not discussed at the meeting. She also indicated an interest in better understanding personalization and targeting tools that may allow for more precise targeting by bad actors on the platform. So do not expect reports on the new topics for quite a long time.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Those without that option will have read many times that if there is something bad in the world, the ‘US Empire’ is either directly behind it or playing a key manipulating role. And/or Deep State actors. Anyone who doesn’t like them is free to immediately unfollow and read about something else. Or the CIA.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 9, 2023

We don’t want privacy experts making policy decisions about topics outside their swimlanes. Worse, if policymaker prioritize privacy considerations over others, bad-faith actors will use “privacy” as a trojan horse to advance illegitimate policy objectives–including censorship.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Expected to find a lot of talking around the topic of pleasure, but surprised to find a lot of hostility to, especially, defendants’ enjoyment of their own conduct. A: yes, you can get a judgment vacated if the instructions are bad, but you can’t get it vacated by arguing they didn’t follow the instructions.

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