IPilogue

JULY 19, 2022

Pina D’Agostine & Dr. Aviv Gaon’s “Selected Topics in Privacy and Cybersecurity Law” course with Osgoode Professional Development. John Lemieux is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Group at Dentons Canada LLP. This article was written as a requirement for Prof.

Privacy 119

Privacy Journalism Settlement Technology 119

Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

In October 2022, the White House published a document titled, “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, Making Automated Systems Work for the American People.” Data Privacy : Systems should be developed with built-in protections from abusive data practices for individuals and the ability for individuals to have agency over how their data is used.

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Government Business Licensing Copyright 237

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Information governance and data retention have been important topics in the corporate world for years. Organizations must adhere to these legal frameworks, such as GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act, hence the importance of maintaining a compliance program.

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IP Whiteboard

APRIL 15, 2021

The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background. The Duke of Sussex, a.k.a.

Privacy 40

Privacy Copyright Publishing Law 40

TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2022

Over the past decade, mobile applications have become the standard platform for most people to consume content online. Whether it’s for shopping, news, or entertainment, there is a mobile app available for any type of content. This shift in consumption patterns is not limited to legal content; piracy has gone mobile as well.

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Copyright Privacy Licensing Reporting 135

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Who else beyond hiQ has an unrestricted right to scrape LinkedIn? Still no idea about IP address blocks (which LinkedIn tried).

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Cease and Desist Contracts Privacy Business 110

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

In order to determine who is a child, websites and apps will have to authenticate the age of ALL consumers before they can use the service. Second, even if businesses treated all consumers (i.e., Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy. NO ONE WANTS THIS. Bye bye casual browsing.

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Privacy Designs Design Business 137

43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Kelly Harris: In Canada, Competition Bureau brought enforcement action against FB for misleading privacy representations even though it’s a free service. Twitter reviews for Sephora where consumers were demanding money for allegedly expired products and saying they couldn’t get refunds from Sephora. distribution of prizes if any.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Or, maybe thinking of a new right, such as a “ Right to Research.” Access to clinical trial data not only helps drug innovation but also impacts consumer benefits and drug pricing. ” Needless to say, these aren’t the main/only solutions. and Class 5.2 Read Anupriya’s excellent post here.

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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. ” Statutory Publicity Rights Claim (3344). FWIW, I raised this issue as a possible paper topic in 2008. Publicity Rights. Callahan v.

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Advertising Advertising Social Media Blogging 90

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Regulated expressive conduct The AADC frames itself a “privacy” law, but that’s always been a gross lie. The age estimation and privacy provisions thus appear likely to impede the “availability and use” of information and accordingly to regulate speech.” It is and always has been about content censorship.

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Designs Design Privacy Business 78

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

J]ust as a subpoena demanding notes from an editorial board meeting would risk chilling a newspaper’s editorial rights,” Meta argues, so too does the subpoena here threaten its “exercise of editorial control.” The court is way off-base here for reasons I explain in this article. No, and it’s not even close. Six4Three v. Superior Ct.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Recording these IP rights into a distributed ledger instead of a traditional one would effectively turn them into Smart IP rights.

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Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Recording these IP rights into a distributed ledger instead of a traditional one would effectively turn them into Smart IP rights.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. Recording these IP rights into a distributed ledger instead of a traditional one would effectively turn them into Smart IP rights.

Technology 52

Technology Patent IP Invention 52

LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

In October 2022, the White House published a document titled, “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, Making Automated Systems Work for the American People.” Like the AI Bill of Rights, compliance with this framework is voluntary but the purpose of the AI RMF 1.0 ” AI RMF 1.0

Government 52

Government Business Copyright Licensing 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

I’m Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where I direct the school’s Privacy Law Certificate. My points relate only loosely to “dark patterns,” but there was no better place for my remarks in the hearing’s initial taxonomy of topics. Is the GPC achieving its purported goals for consumers or not?

Privacy 87

Privacy Blogging Law Business 87

Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

CJEU judgments and AG Opinions Ocilion, CJEU, C-426/21 In July, the CJEU delivered its judgment in the Ocilion case, which related to the right of communication to the public and the private copying exception. The goal is to collect factual information and relant views toadvise Congress on national and international issues on the topic.

Copyright Law 75

Copyright Law Law Copyright Copying 75

SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Topical Highlight. In the event of assignment of rights, any person wishing to legally record a film would have to additionally obtain written permission from the author aside from the permissions already needed from the present copyright owner. The Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021: Overbroad, Disproportionate and Unnecessary.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 4, 2023

Right from the very beginning it’s extremely clear that the EC understands almost every aspect of the challenges faced by rightsholders. Commonly targeted at consumer ISPs, so-called ‘dynamic/live’ injunctions aim to frustrate consumption of illegal IPTV services.

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Velocity of Content

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the Administration, “[t]he Executive Order establishes new standards for Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety and security, protects Americans’ privacy, advances equity and civil rights, stands up for consumers and workers, promotes innovation and competition, advances American leadership around the world, and more.”

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Privacy Copyright Reporting Licensing 52

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? 7072 interferes with the platforms’ own speech rights by forcing them to carry messages that contradict their community standards and terms of service, PruneYard is inapposite.”

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Social Media Law Blogging Publishing 97

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Third Circuit ruled today that Section 230 doesn’t preempt publicity rights claims because they qualify as “intellectual property” claims. Based on the ccBill precedent, a number of Ninth Circuit-governed courts have applied Section 230 to publicity rights claims. Legal Background. See, e.g., Ripple v.

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Intellectual Property Trademark Marketing Marketing 132

LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

9] This comes further to the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s initial review of AI foundation models, which looked at the risks and opportunities AI may bring from a competition and consumer protection standpoint.[10] This includes disclosing where appropriate privacy policies, user prompts and advanced AI system outputs.

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Publishing Government Intellectual Property Technology 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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.” In fact, we’re at the other extreme, there are people you’ve never heard of that are the influencers, right? ” Chris Cox. No one’s puzzled by that today.

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Journalism Government Technology Privacy 101

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The court summarizes the alleged trademark problems: Defendant used the phrase “Online Arrangement” and Plaintiffs’ trademark “Seeking Millionaire” as metatags on its website to direct consumers who searched for “Seeking,” “Seeking Millionaire,” and “Seeking Arrangement” to its own website and mobile application.

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Advertising Advertising Trademark Settlement 98

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. But that is a broader topic for another day and was not discussed at the meeting.

Social Media 52

Social Media Reporting Journalism Advertising 52

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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Intellectual Property IP Technology Privacy 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

“editors have a First Amendment right to make case-by-case determinations as to what speech they wish to display and what speech they wish to exclude. No benefit the state may assert can outweigh the countervailing public interest in protecting consumers.” Such a law plainly triggers (and flunks) strict scrutiny.

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Social Media Law Privacy Blogging 111

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 9, 2023

What does “privacy” mean? It’s a simple question that lacks a single answer, even from privacy experts. Without a universally shared definition of privacy, scholars have instead attempted to “define” privacy by taxonomizing problems that they think should fit under the privacy umbrella.

Privacy 101

Privacy Law Designs Design 101

Patently-O

JULY 9, 2021

Right to Repair : The FTC is encouraged to “limit powerful equipment manufacturers from restricting people’s ability to use independent repair shops or do DIY repairs.” Privacy : The FTC is encouraged to develop rules on surveillance and the accumulation of data by big-tech and to bar unfair competition in internet marketplace.

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Licensing Intellectual Property Privacy IP 100

43(B)log

MAY 11, 2021

The problem is that our keywords are ideological, so Google searches confirm one’s worldview: searching for “illegal aliens” gets you right-wing sites that confirm what they already believe, while “undocumented workers” produces very different results. Feel both indignation and resignation about algorithmic systems invading their privacy.

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Social Media Privacy Designs Design 40

Patently-O

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Nonetheless, the bar is a content-based restriction because “its reach is defined simply by the topic (subject matter) of the covered speech” [8] – here, the topic being the famous person in question. No state recognizes such a sweeping right of publicity that it is subject to zero countervailing First Amendment protections.

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Registration Government Advertising Advertising 69

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The court says this inspection right “brings the state into an unhealthy entanglement with news outlets.” Similarly, restyling mandatory disclosure laws as standard UDAP/consumer protection doesn’t address the underlying entanglement problems. See my RightsCon talk on this topic. McManus (4th Cir.

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Government Publishing Privacy Reporting 118

LexBlog IP

MARCH 2, 2022

Both FTC Chair Lina Khan and CFPB Chair Rohit Chopra recently emphasized in public comments the importance of state attorneys general in enforcing federal consumer protection and consumer financial laws and their intent to share more resources with state attorneys general in 2022. 4: Connecting Consumer Marketing to Antitrust.

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