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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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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Departing Employees Rename Their Former Employers’ Facebook Account. That May Be a Problem–La Baguette v. Tito & Tita

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. 493 (2017); Courtney J.

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Kat Von D, Think Before You Ink

IPilogue

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background. Further Reading.

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The Amendment to the IT Rules, 2021: Part 1 – Locked, Loaded, and Aimed at the Intermediaries

SpicyIP

the definitions) and Part II (dealing with intermediaries and social media intermediaries) of the IT Rules, 2021 and primarily impacts only the intermediaries in terms of their obligations under Rule 3. 2017) 240 DLT 3] and in Amway India Enterprises Pvt. The Draft Amendment brings about certain changes to only Part I (viz.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

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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[Guest post] Conference report: ‘The Fashion Marketplace: Law and Policy’

The IPKat

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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