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LimeWire to Return to Sell NFTs

Plagiarism Today

Initially released in May 2000, Limewire was a peer-to-peer file sharing service that found a great deal of success and infamy following the closure of Napster in July 2001. The company ceased operations after the RIAA sent them a cease and desist letter. Since then, not much has been done with the name LimeWire.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2001), the court found that: if the promise [in a contract] amounts only to a promise to refrain from reproducing, performing, distributing or displaying the work, then the contract claim is preempted. Google changed its privacy policy to collect all “public” data (viz., In Wrench Ltd. Taco Bell Corp. , 3d 446 (6th Cir.

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Trademark Registration of Political Messages for Expressive Merchandise–In re Elster (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Sections 2(a) and 2(c) both protect an individual’s right of privacy and right of publicity in trademark law by preventing the unauthorized registration of a person’s name, signature, or image. Elster did not have Trump’s consent to register this mark for any goods or services. The Federal Circuit disagreed. See Sections III-V.