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Legal Analysis Of Copyright Issues In YouTube And Other Social Media Content

IP and Legal Filings

The nature and notion of copyright, as well as a brief overview of social networking sites, have remained the main focus of this research study. The article then turns its attention to how social media culture is violating owners’ copyrights. Due to excessive mobile use, social media has become a popular platform.

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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s From User-Generated Content Services

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated Note: I’ve often told the story of how Epinions implemented COPPA in 2001. What The Bill Says. generated content.” They are not the same thing!).

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The EUIPO has published the second phase of its research on Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technologies

The IPKat

However, over the last two decades, the ability of computers to recognise content has become crucial for a wide range of applications (and this is not a list of the capabilities of HAL 9000 in " 2001: A Space Odyssey "). in a shop) and recognised by a camera, through a computed " automatic " process, without the intervention of human review.

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Revisiting Bananas, Duct Tape, Walls, & Copyright–Morford v. Cattelan

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This case involves Morford’s 2001 artwork named “Banana and Orange.” Morford’s work had been displayed on social media, including YouTube, Facebook, and BlogSpot. Now we’re more even more sure that we didn’t violate copyright law with this marketing. ” Independently (?),

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[Guest post] The ‘brat’ phenomenon: Exploring cultural influence and IP dynamics

The IPKat

Brat green: from the streets of NYC to the domination of social media and then to the catwalks (?) This state of pandemonium across social media platforms swiftly led fashion brands and luxury retailers to capitalize on this frenzy by re-branding their green products as ‘brat’.

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State Farm’s Nod to Nostalgia Sparks Copyright Clash With Atari

Copyright Lately

” A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy. Its lawsuit reeks of an opportunistic attempt to profit from State Farm’s mistake rather than a legitimate effort to protect its copyright from real market harm. The Gap, Inc.

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.