Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. 1: The Shepard Fairey Dispute.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

Same thing with the Lori Drew prosecution from 2009). I’m ignoring the complicating effects of various social media censorship laws that may require Internet services to enforce their TOSes as written, a requirement I think is unconstitutional). AOL from 2003, a case I still include in my Internet Law casebook.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The Assistant Controller Of Patents And Designs on 20 September, 2024 on 19 September, 2024 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The appellant challenged the rejection of its patent application for an absorbable iron-based alloy medical device. Biotyx Medical (Shenzhen) Co. Rohit Kumar Dhaka & Anr. Ashok Kumar(S)/ John Doe(S) & Ors.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Compliance with the regulatory framework will be assessed by accredited third party “ conformity assessment bodies ”, which will in turn be designated and monitored by designated Member State authorities. Annex II provides a list of related EU legislation, generally concerning certain product safety standards (e.g.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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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SpicyIP

MAY 20, 2024

Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009. SpicyIP Tidbit: Delhi High Court grants an Ex-parte Ad interim Injunction to Designer Gaurav Gupta On DHC’s recent interim injunction to designer Gaurav Gupta, Surabhi highlights the problem with the Court’s one glove fits all approach in this tidbit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2021

On social media: "Were U planning on telling UR customers" [to switch before they lose service]? 2009), “in which the posting of a sign that said, ‘Brad Collier owes me $943.23. The promo program was primarily designed to recover suppressed demand. Cited: Collier v. Hill (In re Collier), 410 B.R. 464 (Bankr.

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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.

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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!

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