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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Regulators have sought to suppress online targeted advertising for years, with only minimal success. In turn, advertisers have fled Twitter. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward.

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A blow to image rights?: the Supreme Court rules on the protection of the personality rights of deceased celebrities

Garrigues Blog

Consequently, the Supreme Court has confirmed the previous judgment by the Madrid Appellate Court, which was appealed by the sponsor of the festival, ordering it to pay compensation of 20,000 euros, and to partially publish the judgment in a media outlet in print and on two social media outlets. The Supreme Court’s opinion.

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Yearbook Defendants Lose Two More Section 230 Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Whitepages decision , a more significant decision than I initially thought, the plaintiffs are making progress in the early rounds of their cases. Callahan v.

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Takedown Services Under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

This issue remained unaffected with the 2008 Amendment, as intermediaries were permitted to continue using the safe harbour principle to prevent themselves from being held accountable for choices made by a third party without their knowledge. Rules on Information Technology, 2021 (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code).

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FOSTA Claim Can Proceed Against Twitter–Doe v. Twitter

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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.

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