Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2022

A facilitating access to news standard is virtually limitless: newsstands, news screens in elevators or taxis, television manufacturers, or newspaper box makers can all be said to be facilitating access to news. In what way is facilitating access to news the same as making it available (much less using it)?

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Michael Geist

MAY 19, 2022

CRTC Chair Ian Scott appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage yesterday and Bill C-11 proved to be a popular topic of discussion. With respect to Bill C-11, most newsworthy were two comments regarding the regulation of user content and the timelines for implementing the bill if it receives royal assent.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

In balancing out these concerns, the statute contains specific allowances for the use of a deceased personality’s name, voice, photograph, or likeness in a play, book, magazine, newspaper, musical work, work of visual art, etc.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A facilitating access to news standard is virtually limitless: newsstands, news screens in elevators or taxis, television manufacturers, or newspaper box makers can all be said to be facilitating access to news. In what way is facilitating access to news the same as making it available (much less using it)?

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 23, 2023

Strangely, the value of ‘likes’ and ‘views’ is comprehensively understood when the topic of conversation isn’t centered on ripping music from YouTube. Both options are free; what’s the problem? The reasons for that disconnect aside, lots of people do ask questions.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

You see, when I was growing up, computers took up entire rooms and content was published on paper – books, newspapers, magazines, and yes, sometimes even broadcast on television or radio. It’s a topic that feels right out of a thrilling legal drama: should AI models be fed with copyrighted content? Copying was tedious.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Consider the wide swath of entities vital to disseminating others’ speech—bookstores, book publishers, essay-compilation editors, theaters, newspaper letters to the editor and op-eds, live television guest interviews, cable television operators offering cable channels, art shows, community bulletin boards, and comedy clubs, just to name a few.

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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) ). an infringement of her copyright in the Letter; and.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 6, 2022

Visitors that click on the link are taken to the newspaper’s website, shown a series of ads, offered some encouragement to subscribe, and presented with a series of widgets they can use to also post the link to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Late last year, News Media Canada ran a webinar on reviving newspapers in digital news deserts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

It’s also unclear if a service could thread content by topic, or if topical organization also would be an “algorithm.” ” I’ll assume both of these content restrictions would be OK, but the bill doesn’t actually say that]. LGBTQ kids trying to form communities) and whistleblowing.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

For example, imagine a government-designated censor at a newspaper, deciding if the newspaper can add a new column or feature, add a new topical section, or change the size and layout of the paper. This gives the auditor power to decide what features the platforms publish and what they don’t.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use. Copyright Preemption.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Why having seven different newspapers clogging up your mailbox, when you can have that content carefully selected and curated for you according to your interests and taste? For more content aggregated on the topic of CV-Online Latvia, see here. Parkamo GmbH.

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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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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nonetheless, what’s the solution in the long run – abolishing copyright from scholarly works as Steven Shavell proposed; disallowing corporate assignment of copyright over scholarly works, akin to Akshat’s suggestion in the music industry context; revamping Legal Deposit under The Delivery of Books and Newspaper (Public Libraries) Act 1954.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 14, 2024

If the vision for the creation of the web included a day one feature that could restrict access to content, people working on their own specialist topics, catering to their own niche audiences, would’ve happily pressed the button. And to be frank, who can blame people for that sentiment? And good riddance too.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

.” Instead, the court endorses that regulated social media enterprises are publishers: the First Amendment implications of the Act come into focus when social media operators are thought of as publishers of opinion work—a newspaper limited to “Letters to the Editor,” or a publisher of a series of essays by different authors.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Query: if the only newspaper in town decides which advertisements may properly be posted or which advertisements to accept, does a rejected advertiser suffer an anti-trust injury? There is no showing that Apple is reaping the fruits of anticompetitive conduct. That is not the kind of injury antitrust laws are intended to protect.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Court’s categorical discussion on why and how the evidence like brochures, import-export data, newspaper, and magazine articles will not further its argument about cross-border reputation, is something that deserves special noting here.)

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2023

In December 2022, The Art Newspaper reported that the New York D.A. 4] Some of the seized works have been returned to Italy and Turkey, where they originated, though an expert speaking to The Art Newspaper speculated that the investigation is ongoing, based on the fact Ms. Individuals. White was not named in the repatriation notices.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Still, I prefer it when judges rely on Section 230(c)(1) to take the “good faith” topic off the table entirely. Newspaper Isn’t State Actor–Plotkin v. It’s nice to see the judge distinguish erroneous and bad-faith applications of content moderation policies, especially on a motion to dismiss.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Instead, the CJPA takes an asinine, ineffective, unconstitutional, and industry-captured approach to this critical topic. “performs a public information function comparable to that traditionally served by newspapers and other periodical news publications.” For more on this topic, see Ashutosh A. Free Speech L.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This is all the more so when for works of art displayed in a public space, absent a specific rule on this topic. Our analysis shows that the question of protectability of artworks in Italy is far from clear.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2024

These articles covered a range of topics with two themes standing out – scope of rights and registration, and IP disputes. The report is part of research into public perceptions of IP matters by analyzing news coverage of the five years ending 2022. Further research should be conducted to better understand the extent of this impact.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

So maybe an interesting topic to consider is if Wikipedia is the model for a high-quality output of online community and user-generated content.” I think we’re still so, so, so early on that it’s not clear.” What’s important is the reputation of Wikipedia.

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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? Up to this point, I think the panel’s ruling has been pretty straightforward and obvious, even though it rejects the voluminous pro-censorship FUD directed towards these topics.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Finally, imagine trying to impose a similar editorial policy disclosure requirement on a traditional publisher like a newspaper or book publisher. As my Content Moderation Remedies paper showed, this topic is way more complicated than a binary remove/leave up dichotomy. ” What does “broader action” mean?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

To lay the foundation for clipping First Amendment protections for social media, the brief attempts to distinguish social media services from newspapers. “whereas newspapers are comprised mainly of content they themselves create or specifically solicit, most content posted on social media platforms is generated by the platforms’ users.”

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2022

The response to the competition was overwhelming in the previous years and we’ve received entries from law students across India on an impressive range of topics. The third was an essay competition held by CREATe on the topic of how Artificial Intelligence would change the practice of intellectual property law. Shamnad Basheer.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 8, 2022

Newspaper Isn’t State Actor–Plotkin v. YouTube (Again) Defeats Lawsuit Over Content Removal–Lewis v. When It Came to @RealDonaldTrump, Twitter Couldn’t Please Everyone–Rutenberg v. Another Must-Carry Lawsuit Against YouTube Fails–Daniels v Alphabet. An Account Suspension Case Fails Again–Perez v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Platforms are not newspapers. “The Platforms are nothing like the newspaper in Miami Herald. Unlike newspapers, the Platforms exercise virtually no editorial control or judgment. Thus the Platforms, unlike newspapers, are primarily “conduit[s] for news, comment, and advertising.”” ” [Conduits.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Getting 84% right is B-level work in school, but we expect better from two of the country’s flagship newspapers. For more on the topic of newspapers correcting their Section 230 coverage, see this post. Honestly, the media’s error rate about Section 230 felt far higher than 1-in-6.

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