Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Given the strength of the 11th Circuit decision, it would be ideal to have that opinion frame SCOTUS’s consideration of the topic. Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the emergency application to restore the injunction against HB 20, Texas’ social media censorship law. Attorney General first. ” I agree.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 24, 2023

Last October a huge coalition of rightsholders called on the EC to introduce new law that would compel intermediaries to take pirate streams offline within minutes of a complaint. In mid-January, the European Commission (EC) issued a call for evidence to support a proposed “toolbox” of measures to combat live sports piracy.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 16, 2022

Kevin McFree’ (not his real name) is the creator of the ‘Dubtown’ series of stop-motion Lego animations that take place in a fictitious Jehovah’s Witness town. In 2018, Watch Tower filed an application for a DMCA subpoena to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. When cases deviate from this format they tend to stick out.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

To piggyback on the editorial board analogy, if the newspaper itself had published an account of its editorial policies and decisions, and it turned out to be potentially fraudulent in some way, it would not chill the newspaper’s exercise of editorial control to investigate whether the newspaper’s public statements on that topic were false.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2022

It is not every day that the FTC sues the CEO of a publicly traded company, and it is even less often that we see a federal court opinion on the topic, so this decision warrants a deep dive. Indeed, paragraph two notes that the FTC’s case “is compelling and overwhelms FleetCor’s evidentiary and legal defenses.”

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. Sufficiency of Trade Secret Pleadings and Allegations of Misappropriation. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d 3d 892 (3d Cir. The district court dismissed plaintiff’s complaint for failure to state a claim.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2024

Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena that required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie companies took these cases to a federal court, asking it to compel Reddit to comply. Reddit wasn’t willing to go along with the request, at least not in full.

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The TTABlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a dubiously precedential Order, the ruled on several discovery-related motions in this opposition to registration of the mark GROMEO for "Planters for flowers and plants; Self-watering planters for flowers and plants." moved to compel a deposition and to extend its time to respond to OMS's discovery requests.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

[Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof. Ochoa’s definitive analysis of the Supreme Court’s Warhol opinion. This post is 11,000+ words long, so you may want to block out some time to enjoy this properly.] By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 21-869 (May 18, 2023).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. It derives from a paper given at the 25 th Anniversary celebration of IViR on 4 July 2014 and at the University of Oxford IP Moot “converzatione” on 18 March 2016. Ideas and expression in football: tricks, turns and strategies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Students: this post surfaces numerous potential paper topics. This ruling conflicts with the more recent reconsidered JB ruling, something the court expressly addresses in its reconsideration motion discussed below. From a judicial standpoint, FOSTA’s terrible drafting has produced entirely predictable chaos in the courts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Clearly, this topic is rapidly evolving, and it will almost certainly end up on the Supreme Court’s main docket (not just the shadow docket) soon.] * * * Twitter suspended users or deboosted their tweets based on its COVID misinformation policy. My prior blog post on the district court ruling.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I hope you enjoy these 2,800 words on legal topics you assumed were definitively resolved over a dozen years ago.] Introduction This lawsuit is one of the many lawsuits around the country brought by conservatives exorcising their persecution complex. Typically, these lawsuits are purely about partisanship. ” ICS Provider. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

[This is a 6k+ word blog post that was joyless to write and most likely will be joyless to read.]. If you want a distillation of this decision, consider this line: “Far from justifying pre-enforcement facial invalidation, the Platforms’ obsession with terrorists and Nazis proves the opposite.” Background.

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