43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Bill McGeveran: interesting b/c privacy/data protection regimes are very different in the two regimes. Movies: want access to info they wouldn’t otherwise have.

Fair Use 45

Fair Use Contracts Litigation Copying 45

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Unauthorised use of someone’s identity is a violation of both their personality rights and their basic right to privacy. The Court rejected the privacy defence, which is often employed in IP proceedings.

Personality Rights 92

Personality Rights Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property 92

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme. Does anyone care?

Law 111

Law Social Media Advertising Advertising 111

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

.” [For more on the crisis of online contracts, see this short piece.] __ “I analyze everything you post and often apply those insights to my workespecially topics like Section 230 of the CDA, privacy issues, and e-commerce.” ” A prediction from 2005 that didn’t quite come true LOL. ” The DC v.

Blogging 52

Blogging Privacy Social Media Law 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

Social Media 145

Social Media Law Privacy Government 145

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

Law 122

Law Social Media Government Privacy 122

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

But MAGA got one thing right: some social media owners would find the temptation to embrace partisanship irresistible. MAGA has also complained that the government improperly pressured social media to make content moderation decisions (the so-called “censorship-industrial complex”). FOLLOW ME THERE!

Social Media 102

Social Media Law Government Privacy 102