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Another API (c) case with false advertising and contract claims too

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Defendants allegedly copied key components of Trackman’s copyrighted software and falsely suggested, in promotions and advertisements, that defendants were authorized to use the well-known courses in their game. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived.

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Two More Cases Compel Arbitration for Dubious Online Contracts (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. The problem with the FAA and online contracts, of course, is that no one is agreeing to arbitrate anything. Didion (2008) 160 Cal.App.4th Consumer Contracts (Tent.

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Regulating The Game: Towards A Safe and Sustainable Online Gaming Ecosystem in India

IP and Legal Filings

The Amendment makes betting, wagering, and gambling, in whatever form or manner, with money, a crime, whether the contract involves a game of skill or chance. Sikkim Online Gaming Act, 2008 was amended in 2018, making it mandatory for each player’s identity to be verified by a photograph. But cash stakes are not forbidden in games.

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UK Regulator Bans Misleading “Hot Air” Ads

IP Tech Blog

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned four separate adverts which relate to electric plug-in mini heaters. Although the ads which were investigated were placed by different advertisers, the ads were representing the same mini-heater product. None of the advertisers responded to the ASA.

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UK Regulator Bans Misleading “Hot Air” Ads

LexBlog IP

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned four separate adverts which relate to electric plug-in mini heaters. Although the ads which were investigated were placed by different advertisers, the ads were representing the same mini-heater product. None of the advertisers responded to the ASA.

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Boat Rental Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Offline Boating Accident–In re Chaves

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MySpace case from 2008 and its progeny (assuming the Doe case is still good law in the Fifth Circuit, which isn’t guaranteed ). Even if the new definition applied, the court questions if GMB was the one to “advertise and offer” the boat, as opposed to Chaves: it is Chaves who places the advertisement on GMB’s website.

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Second Circuit Rejects an Account Termination Lawsuit…Again (Phew!)–Domen v. Vimeo

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Courts have rejected Section 230 defenses against claims for false advertising, deceptive trade practices, and tortious interference. 6:08-cv-42-Orl-19GJK, 2008 WL 2704404 at *24 (M.D. July 8, 2008). Certain claims sounding in contract or tort may be beyond the reach of Section 230(c)(2)’s protection from suit.