Michael Geist

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’ve described Bill S-210 , the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act , as the most dangerous Internet bill you’ve never heard of as it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns, website blocking, and extend far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 10, 2023

13, 2018) Come to think of it you, you may also recall a California case holding VARA did not apply to graffiti comprised of large scale murals on the exterior of San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating queer bar, The Stud. G&M Realty L.P. 13-CV-05612(FB)(RLM) (E.D.N.Y. Oct 18, 2022). As many readers know, U.S.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding?

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

Next up today, Naledi de Wee at The South African reports that local actress Ntando Duma is being sued by the celebrity photography agency Pixel Kollective after she allegedly failed to credit the agency when using their work as part of a social media campaign. The lawsuit is seeking R200,000 ($13,027) in damages from Duma.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 7, 2022

Most prominent was the 2018 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Cobbler v. This includes information shared on social media. Since 2018, when the first case was filed, over 7,000 complaints have been submitted at federal courts. Gonzales case. 1,060 Lawsuits This Year.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2023

The last figure is up from 12% during the previous survey in 2020, and in 2018 it was only 10%. Social Media In recent years, the authorities have managed to crack down on local file-sharing communities but that ‘distribution’ role now seems to have shifted to social media platforms.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. In order to function, EngineOwning uses a number of services including internet service providers, payment providers and social media websites. Activision Subpoenas… Everything.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 15, 2023

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules, but according to a lawsuit filed this week by several prominent music companies, Twitter is not among them. This activity generates many millions of views which are monetized by the social media platform, while rightsholders are not compensated.

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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

Most notably, in 2018, the Hasbro toy company registered the distinctive smell of their toy Play-Doh as a scent trademark. The market for dupe perfumes is largely being fuelled by two factors, consumer demand and social media marketing.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

Gold continues with specific examples: For example, Facebook acquired exclusive broadcasting rights for several baseball games during the 2018, 2019 Major League Baseball seasons. When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation.

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

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Michael Geist

APRIL 17, 2023

Last week, a court sided with the social media giant, concluding that the Privacy Commissioner did not provide sufficient evidence that Facebook failed to obtain meaningful consent when sharing information with third-party applications and rejecting a claim that Facebook did not adequately safeguard user information.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Namecheap was asked to hand over information related to Namecheap or WhoisGuard accounts associated with sportsbay.org, live-nba.stream, freefeds.com, and the IP address 198.54.117.210, from May 2018 through August 3, 2020. Subpoenas Enable Plaintiffs to Name Defendants.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2022

Hailey Bieber leverage d her fame and social media following, and that of her husband Justin Bieber’, to immediately establish her brand.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It was posted to the @Starouille account just before Christmas 2018 by an individual believed to be the chief technical officer of Uptobox. ‘Expert’ Opinions Should Be Ignored Some ‘experts’ posting on social media are claiming that the l’Informé article is bogus.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp., 2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. s Terms of Use” and “[c]ertain information about the party and the Terms acceptance.”. . Les Giblin LLC v.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 6, 2025

Other Posts SpicyIP Tidbit: Revisiting Trade Secrets in the Light of The Delhi High Courts Decision in the Navigators Logistics Case A Division Bench (DB) of the Delhi HC provided relief to the Appellants whose Plaint was rejected in 2018 for failure to disclose cause of action.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 3, 2023

APCON (judgement rendered on July 5, 2018) that APCON has no control over ordinary people, businesses, institutions, or groups that advertise anything as long as those people or groups are not engaging in the practise of advertising. The Court of Appeal recently ruled in the case of MIC Royal Limited (MIC) 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. Mark Gould Arrested First, Others follow In May 2018, search warrants were executed at two addresses in London.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 14, 2022

Four years later, in June 2018, Holmes was indicted on eleven counts of fraud. Employees were discouraged from communicating with each other about their work and were advised not to share the company’s name on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Security guards escorted visitors everywhere, even to bathrooms.

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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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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

This pattern begins as far back as May of 2018, when Bernstein was accused of copying pieces from several smaller jewelry lines for a collaboration she did with Nordstrom. However, an equally long list of controversies accompanies this list of accomplishments, the majority of which involve alleged copying.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It submitted 14 social media posts “which it contends shows consumers and retailers attributed a particular source to Defendants’ liquor and Plaintiff’s television show.” (That doesn’t seem a helpful conclusion, but the court seems to think that suggestive terms must have secondary meaning to be protected.)

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TorrentFreak

MAY 12, 2024

Russia famously ordered the blocking of Telegram in 2018 but ended up blocking 1.8 While this is clearly a stand-out example, there’s something about the way Telegram conducts business, at times interpreted as a complete lack of interest, that frustrates courts, rightsholders, even some governments.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Content producers should keep a close eye on social media and digital platforms for the emergence of works that could be derivative of theirs. Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar, 2018) 497. [9] Even concealment from these techniques can be promised by new tools. 362 [10] Lionel Bently et al.,

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The shredder was triggered mere moments after “Girl With Balloon” was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in October 2018. million at auction in 2018. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below or on my social media accounts @copyrightlately. So, alas, watching Banksy v. And as for the Walken whitewash?

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the decision, Rakoff became the second SDNY judge to reject the server test, joining a view shared by then-judge Katherine Forrest in 2018’s Goldman v. In his original 2018 dismissal order, Judge Fitzgerald himself noted that American culture was “heavily steeped in the concepts of players, haters, and player haters.”)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Internet infrastructure company was featured in the first EU piracy watchlist in 2018 and responded with rebuttals. Social media. That might prevent its inclusion in the next watch list. A similar position was experienced by Cloudflare. – HostPalace Web Solution PVT LTD (“Host Palace”). Unlicensed IPTV services.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Nike's evidence established ues of the JUST DO IT mark since 2018, with staggering sales figures and advertising expenditures, substantial interactions on social media, and frequent unsolicited media attention. Likelihood of Confusion: A claim of fame under Section 2(d) must be clearly proven.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” “The account was registered on November 30, 2018, and has payment methods on file, including a Visa and a Mastercard in the name of Ermakova Valeriya with the billing address for each of Fontanka River Embankment 24 18, St. That said, all of these allegations have yet to be proven in court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

Some interesting discussion on the use of Google and Twitter to determine genericness: Plaintiffs also offered evidence of Google searches and social media mentions on Twitter to support their position that PRETZEL CRISPS is not generic.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Remember the Fifth Circuit case from 2018 holding that a real restaurant’s name could infringe trademark rights in the name of a fictional restaurant from the TV show SpongeBob SquarePants, the Krusty Krab? by guest blogger Prof. Alexandra Jane Roberts.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” (For a comment, see here ) The DABUS team (the Artificial Inventor Project ) starting testing copyright law back in 2018, seeking to register with the US Copyright Office (USCO) A Recent Entrance to Paradise , an image created by DABUS. Registration was refused in August 2019, in line with previous US case law and guidance.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“All stakeholders in the internet ecosystem, including hosting providers, DNS providers, cloud services, advertising networks, payment processors, social media platforms, and search engines, should proactively work towards reducing support for well-known infringing sites,” BREIN writes in its submission.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 26, 2024

Early January 2018, the platform acknowledged it had around 55 million global users then in December the same year, that figure had suddenly grown to 271 million. Reports seem to vary but if servicing a billion users each month sounds like a lot, TikTok is on a mission to push way beyond that.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 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. Lieverst , 5:18-cv-307 (TJM/DEP), 2018 WL 8278554 (N.D.N.Y. 2021 WL 827749, at *6. 4th at 789.

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