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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. TikTok bans.

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YouTube Isn’t Liable for User Uploads of Animal Abuse Videos–Lady Freethinker v. YouTube

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Same thing with the Lori Drew prosecution from 2009). The underlying legal principles are not complicated: content rules in TOSes are negative behavioral restrictions on authors’ conduct, not marketing or contractual promises to readers that such content will never appear on the site. Case citation : Freethinker v.

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 9- October 15)

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Syngenta Limited vs Controller Of Patents And Designs on 13 October, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court responded to the questions on divisional applications referred to it by the Single Judge earlier. POI Social Media Pvt. Tejaswini writes on this development.

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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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Constituent Blocking on Twitter Is Censorship–Felts v. Vollmer

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

It’s a simple question: can a government official block a constituent on social media? Reed created the @PresReed Twitter account in 2009 and used it in a variety of official ways. The court says yes: not every social media account operated by a public official is a government account. Censorship.

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false advertising & bankruptcy law: $18 million for deceptive campaign in violation of automatic stay

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On social media: "Were U planning on telling UR customers" [to switch before they lose service]? Diecast Marketing Innovations, LLC (In re Collecting Concepts), 2000 Bankr. 2009), “in which the posting of a sign that said, ‘Brad Collier owes me $943.23. Cited: Collier v. Hill (In re Collier), 410 B.R. 464 (Bankr.