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. v Sarita Manufacturing Co., 1997 PTC 394.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 23, 2023

On Thursday, SCOTUS sided with Twitter on a content liability claim, ruling that Twitter was not culpable for the 2017 Istanbul shooting by connecting ISIS-affiliated accounts. The post More Thoughts about the SCOTUS Twitter and Google Rulings appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. If not, the Internet is doomed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. StopTheSADScheme.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

When lighting technician Blake Farmer got a tattoo of Miles Davis from celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D in 2017, he never could have imagined that the image on his right arm would one day become Exhibit A in a copyright infringement lawsuit. Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The court split on the second and third fair use factors.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 30, 2023

Through its illegal participation in the subscription TV market, Flawless had a direct impact on Sky and Virgin Media subscription package sales. For cash-strapped football fans in the UK, pirate IPTV providers represent choice and affordability in a market where very little exists.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Her description of the various ways in which Amazon is seeking to help brands battle counterfeits (via, for example, its 2017-launched Brand Registry) corroborated her expressed view that counterfeits are bad news for marketplaces too and it is in everyone’s best interests to be proactive. Largely, these are destroyed.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 16, 2024

Nevertheless, factors such as size or strategic position in the piracy market are typically weighed against prudent use of resources and prospects of success. Given the sheer number of platforms ACE has shut down since 2017, running a pirate IPTV service so openly with the above as background, makes zero sense.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

Brat green: from the streets of NYC to the domination of social media and then to the catwalks (?) This state of pandemonium across social media platforms swiftly led fashion brands and luxury retailers to capitalize on this frenzy by re-branding their green products as ‘brat’.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Appian disseminated the report through its sales team, social media, and other marketing. Starting with Pegasystems’ claims, Appian and BPM argued that there was no proof of cognizable injury, and that there was no presumption of injury because multiple firms compete in the BPM market. The BPM market is large.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content. LinkedIn Corp.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 All of Peloton’s marketing materials that mention the term ‘Bike+’ are also branded with the [Peloton] mark.” Actual confusion: none, despite market coexistence since September 2020; favored Peloton.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. By making textbooks available to students for free, rightsholders are losing revenue, which leads to lower payments for authors and devalues the market as a whole, the publishers complain. $30

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” In 2017, Defendants’ executive assistant sent emails to Steven Sikes from SoFi seeking to schedule a meeting between Mr. Sikes and Mr. Plashkes. March 29, 2023).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Interestingly, the court noted that Rozier produced evidence which called into question whether Fun World’s mask possessed the requisite originality, given that a third-party created and marketed a similar “Wailer” mask several months before the “Ghost Face” mask was registered. Outside of masks and jewellery, a 2017 U.S.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. about your goods, products or services”).

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azrights

MAY 10, 2022

Compumark an industry leader in trademark research and protection reported in 2020 that trademark infringement is rising year on year with 85% of brands experiencing trademark infringement in the previous year, showing a steady upward trend from 81% in 2018 and 74% in 2017. Not understanding marketing. Failing to plan properly.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2024

98, 107 (2017) for the passage that social media has become the “modern public square.” — Justice Alito writes that “research suggests that social media are having a devastating effect on many young people, leading to depression, isolation, bullying, and intense pressure to endorse the trend or cause of the day.” .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

On that front, the plaintiffs’ other key piece of evidence came from a 2017 meeting between YouTube “queer” creators and Google’s Vice President of Product Management, Johanna Wright. There is no basis for assuming that the algorithm in question today is materially similar to the algorithm in question in 2017.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 26, 2024

It sought cancellation of a registration for the mark PREDATOR & Design , issued in 2017, for soft drinks and energy drinks made with natural ingredients, claiming lack of bona fide intent and abandonment. marketing strategies, U.S. Frequent TTAB litigant Monster Energy lost another one at the TTAB, this time on summary judgment.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Bournvita’s Sugar Rush Against ‘FoodPharmer’: An Unreasoned Injunction and a Clarification Without Clarity Recently, the DHC passed an interim injunction against the social media influencer ‘Food Pharmer,’ restraining him from disparaging Mondelez’s ‘Bournvita’ and ‘Tang’ branded products.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The recent signing of the Digital Markets Act and the ongoing negotiations on the proposal for a Data Act present excellent opportunities to expand on the novel phenomenon. Careful readers as yourself will note that the 2017 Regulation on Cross-Border Portability of Online Content Services was omitted from the list above. Why is that?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

ACE has shown an impressive ability to get the job done since its launch in 2017 and its activities are regularly reported here on TorrentFreak. Collaborate with the MPA digital team on strategy and content for ACE, TPN and the MPA’s online presence and social media activity. News vs. Marketing and Advertising.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 29, 2013), [link]. [ii]

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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. United Kingdom Gambling Act, Amitav Ranjan & Mihir Vasavda, Sports Ministry lays ground for making onling betting legal , THE INDIAN EXPRESS, (July 16, 2017), [link] legal-4752604/.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the plaintiffs’ reasoning, the development of the AI by Google began in 2017, when it introduced the “Transformer” neural network, a revolutionary framework underpinning the LLM. To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In late October, Facebook announced that it would change its name to Meta , signaling a shift of the social media giant’s focus toward the metaverse , a virtual space where social media, gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality, and cryptocurrencies converge and allow people to interact virtually with one another.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media. Jackson , 2017 WL 5629514, *11 (N.D. The vast majority of people who post to social media want their posts to be embedded and made available to others.

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CopyrightsWorld

APRIL 19, 2021

Creators a few years ago, needed to invest in websites and marketing in order to host their creations and attract eyeballs. billion just on the nine top platforms in 2017. Your product, your customers and your strategy. As I follow the start-up world and the creative world very closely I see some similarities arising.

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43(B)log

MAY 2, 2022

It also, since 2017, stopped publicizing on its website the Chanel serial number of goods it has available for sale. It used Chanel marks and indicia, such as Chanel artwork and images of Chanel runway shows, in advertisements and displays featured in-store and on its webpages, social media, and direct-to-consumer emails.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

He markets the books through online retailers and his own website. In December 2017, Chisholm Trail High School’s softball team and color guar posted the WIN Passage to their Twitter accounts. Bell waited almost a year to notify the school that two of its social media accounts had infringed the copyright.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Regional Court of Cologne supplemented its criminal judgment of 30 January 2017 on gang theft with an en passant explanation of the emoji “with raised index finger” (probably ). The post A Roundup of German Caselaw Regarding Emojis and Emoticons (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Read Yogesh’s critique of the judgement in light of DHC’s OpenTV decision and the CRI 2017 Guidelines. Case Summaries Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing v. Deputy Controller will have major implications on the patentability of business methods, in the future. Frankfinn Aviation Services (Pvt.)

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 31, 2024

The above-mentioned being the most important ones, do include other evidence such as social media presence, brochures featuring the mark, reviews of your products, listings in ecommerce platforms, marketing data and such others in order to evidence your extensive use.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether launching their own collections , purchasing an expensive profile pic , or simply endorsing new artists , celebrities have embraced blockchain technology and have been extolling the virtues of owning a unique digital collectible across their social media platforms. So what’s the harm? Take, for example, Justin Bieber.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Accrual: There’s a five-year statute of limitations for false patent marking; Qingdao identified eight social media posts from Dec. 1, 2017 to Apr. 11, 2023 (claiming that various products were “patented”).

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