IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

For reasons that make absolutely no sense while somehow making perfect sense, millions of internet users think that social media platforms are perfect for piracy. Nevertheless, the masses love quick and easy so in common with similar platforms everywhere, social media has a piracy problem.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 6, 2022

From a few early steps in 2016/2017 and more recently in 2022 , services are being dynamically blocked and many individuals have been arrested for broadcasting or selling access to the league’s games without permission. LaLiga Strikes Again. Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga is now tackling live streaming piracy on all fronts.

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The IPKat

MARCH 11, 2024

The promotion of items on social media by celebrities and influencers is commonplace for companies. A famous Kat Facts Puma SE filed an application to register a Community design on 26 July 2016. The design application is dated 26 July 2016. Such is the starting point of a recent decision issued by the EU General Court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. See generally, Christopher A.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2022

The New-York based cosmetics company reportedly struggled due to competition from other established brands as well as a host of small companies that use social media. Smaller / niche cosmetic brands have noticeably increased even in the Indian social media space.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme. Does anyone care?

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The music app first made headlines in 2016 when its founders, who were teenagers at the time, presented their brainchild in an episode of the Canadian edition of Dragons’ Den. In replies on social media, Musi says that it’s working on a potential comeback. Musi is one of them. The software itself works relatively simply.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The use of interactive face filters on social media platforms complements this integration of face detecting technology into our daily lives. Social media platforms ought to think twice between reproducing a makeup artist’s work without consent. to their face.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. I’ll keep you posted about the outcome.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The proposal was presented in two parts: a discussion outlining the government’s intent to regulate social media platforms, and a technical paper outlining details of the proposed law. In fact, the European Commission launched their own “ Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online ” in May 2016.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Following a lawsuit filed by AACS, the decryption licensing group founded by movie studios and technology partners including Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel, in 2014 a New York court ordered the seizure of DVDFab’s domains, bank funds and social media accounts.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 17, 2022

Traditional journalism organizations and digital-native social media networks alike face a formidable challenge—breaking through the cloud of misinformation and overcoming doubt and suspicion. Reprinted with permission. More and more, people trust information less and less. This is true wherever news comes from.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. Tennessee and Kentucky sued it over its marketing practices, such as allegedly overclaiming buyers’ eligibility for tax credits.

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Above the Fold

MAY 25, 2022

Social media has taken over, with social media users nearly doubling from 2.3 billion in 2016, to 4.2 1] Social media platforms provide direct access to consumers, with the ability to focus on niche consumer groups. 2] Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers (ftc.gov). [3]

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IPilogue

MARCH 16, 2025

social media platforms, search engines) increases the usefulness of the network to its users, thereby raising its attractiveness for new users. This is clearly becoming a cause for concern amongst policymakers worldwide (as seen in, e.g., OECD 2016 , G7 2021 , G7 2022 , OECD 2022 ). computing infrastructure).

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IPilogue

APRIL 26, 2022

EOS applied for the mark’s registration in a black and white colour scheme in 2016. EOS Products (“EOS”), the U.S. Having been refused registration by the examiner due to lack of distinctiveness, EOS pursued multiple appeals all the way up to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moreover, reproductions of a social media post are clearly used for the purposes of reporting on the post where, as here, the reproductions include the accompanying elements of the social media application, such as the frame of the Instagram application and standard Instagram hyperlinks.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016. Perhaps the most infamous of the above scandals was the allegation of copyright infringement by The Great Eros (“TGE”).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Since its inception in 2016, CIPRA has been executing various activities in furtherance of its goals, which include encouraging research in every area of the subject, promoting and spreading awareness about IPR among students and public at large with various practical approaches.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Semple has been “liberating colours since 2016” , with previous paints replicating trademarked colours including International Klein Blue , T-Mobile Magenta , and Blackest Black. However, British artist Stuart Semple considers Tiffany Blue as being held captive through trademark law.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 25, 2022

Social media has taken over, with social media users nearly doubling from 2.3 billion in 2016, to 4.2 1] Social media platforms provide direct access to consumers, with the ability to focus on niche consumer groups. 2] Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers (ftc.gov). [3]

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

dispute back in the Ninth Circuit in 2016. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together. Power Ventures, Inc. Facebook v.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Operating from 2016 until 2018, the Flawless IPTV service copied subscription TV broadcasts from official (and unofficial) sources and then restreamed that content to tens of thousands of customers, at a dramatically cut down price. For many UK football fans, Flawless granted access to the sport they love, at a price they could afford.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2022

According to the MPA, content stored on these sites is also made available via apps, social media, forums, blogs and email. billion visits per month sits Russian social media giant VK.com. Linking sites rely on cyberlockers and streaming hosts to provide access to movies and TV shows. Enforcement can be tricky.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Additionally, the defendants pending application for the mark “JUMBO” was treated to have been abandoned by the Registrar of Trade Marks on 5th March, 2016.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Embedding” means the process of copying unique HTML code assigned to the location of a digital copy of the photo or video published to the Internet, and the insertion of that code into a target webpage or social media post so that photo or video is linked for display within the target post.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2024

Long-time readers may recall that this blog had a several-year arrangement with ShutterStock to use their stock photos to illustrate blog posts; that arrangement ended in 2016). For example, would Thompson have a claim under the Florida social media censorship law that ShutterStock didn’t moderate content “consistently”?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Under handles including “Omi in a Hellcat” and “Targetin1080p” Carrasquillo publicized almost everything he did on social media, from selling pirate subscriptions and devices, to banking the mountains of cash he undoubtedly made from the service.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

We recently wrote about a case in the Southern District of New York against Mashable relating to the embedding of content from social media platforms like Instagram. The plaintiffs claim that “Instagram has been caught red-handed in its scheme to usurp the value from copyrighted works for its own benefit.”

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, the prevalence of such activities can be seen in online rummy advertisements on social media and the 2013 IPL match-fixing scandal. In May 2016, the first online betting center in Gangtok was inaugurated by Kapil Dev, owned by Golden Gaming International Pvt Ltd. Black, Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed.

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IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

law can order social media companies to provide such data to the U.S. companies called the Privacy Shield Agreement, which the EC declared adequate in 2016. Compelled to revise his challenge in 2015, Schrems alleged that contractual arrangements in the U.S. 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 26, 2023

By 2016, JSC had created a well-known market for its high-end furniture—JSC had received awards for its furniture, pieces were highlighted in magazines and on social media, and pieces were regularly featured at furniture trade shows.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

While the contract was originally to run through 2016, the parties extended the agreement through August 1, 2022. In so growing that business, Hayley Paige used a series of social media accounts that she curated, but on which she posted a number of JLM-related content, including numerous posts dedicated to JLM dresses Hayley Paige designed.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 18, 2023

In January 2016, Time published an article titled ‘These Photographers Are Covering the Presidential Campaign on Instagram.’ In common with content created in other fields, photographs generally enjoy protection under copyright law, allowing photographers to determine who can duplicate and/or distribute their work.

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The IPKat

JUNE 6, 2022

CIVC also argued that GB is taking unfair advantage of the reputation of the PDO “Champagne”, and asked the court to order GB to cease use of all logos and advertisement documents with “Champanillo” sign, to cancel the registration for the domain name “champanillo.es” and close all social media accounts with this name.

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