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Moment Marketing and its legal implications

Selvam & Selvam Blog

It refers to marketing in respect of trending topics/events usually undertaken by brands to gain traction and benefit from the popularity that the trending events have garnered. Therefore, brands constantly look to create campaigns or post about any current topic to encash on such opportunities to stay relevant and visible.

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Ninth Circuit Revives Choreography Copyright Claims Over Fortnite Emotes–Hanagami v. Epic

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Hanagami is a celebrity choreographer. This opinion forces the court to address the boundaries of choreographic copyright, a lightly litigated topic. Epic Games Videogame Can Replicate Musician’s “Signature Move” (Unless It’s a False Endorsement, Which It Isn’t)–Pellegrino v. He has over 4.5M The video got 36M views.

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Journey Through “Septembers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

Basheer endorsed the point about testing patent agents on foundational legal subjects since a good part of patent prosecution will involve “legal” aspects, without requiring them to have a law degree to take the exam. The topic was particularly pondered in a post called “ Is “Science” Essential for Creating Patent Lawyers ?”

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Until recently, the Sixth Circuit was the most prominent court that endorsed this approach. But the SG did not endorse the Seventh Circuit’s approach either or offer a comprehensive test of its own to decide the degree to which contracts can regulate the use of information goods.

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New York’s Mandatory Editorial Transparency Law Preliminarily Enjoined–Volokh v. James

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

These choices constitute “editorial judgments” which are protected by the First Amendment… the Hateful Conduct Law requires social media networks to disseminate a message about the definition of “hateful conduct” or hate speech—a fraught and heavily debated topic today.

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Does Transformative Matter? No, At Least Where Use Is Commercial

LexBlog IP

These were the hot topics in the recently decided Supreme Court case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. Andy Warhol. And Prince, the Purple One.

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Catching Up on the 11th Circuit Appeal in NetChoice v. Moody Over Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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). However, more often I’ve puzzled over how the Institute interprets the “First Amendment” part of their title. due process.