Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JUNE 10, 2020

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

Privacy 52

Privacy Social Media Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Law 52

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

TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It has removed billions of reported infringing links and since 2012 has been downranking pirate sites, something that hit torrent portals particularly hard. Whois Privacy Corp., With around 90% of the search market, Google is regularly criticized by rightsholders for allowing infringing content to appear in its search results.

Social Media 109

Social Media Publishing Copyright Law Copyright 109

SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Both suits were filed before the 2012 amendment to the Copyright Act. Further, given that the 2012 amendment does not have a retrospective effect, the Court held that the amendment has no effect on the legal position. The petitioner sought to exercise the right to privacy on behalf of her late aunt, J.

IP 143

IP Intellectual Property Trademark Copyright 143

Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. Ramkumar Jewellers (2012), the defendant copied the plaintiff’s advertisement picture containing a popular artistic pose of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan.

Brands 98

Brands Branding Branding Personality Rights 98

43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2023

YT had it since 2012; now only NGOs and gov’t agencies. Don’t assume that Brussels and California effect that occurs w/privacy also occurs when corps can adjust tech granularly. Demands to control social media—take down posts from political rivals, block full services—are common around the world.

Art 45

Art Copyright Settlement Privacy 45

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.

Law 145

Law Social Media 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.

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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!

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Social Media Law Government Privacy 102