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Preventing Trademark Infringement or Stifling Healthy Competition? A Look at 1-800 Contacts and its Keyword Advertising Battle

LexBlog IP

It is difficult to remember a time when keyword advertising did not dominate the internet. Most search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, maintain keyword advertising programs which allow advertisers to bid on search terms and keywords that drive customers searching for a particular product or service to their website.

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Anti-Piracy Coalition ACE Gets Bigger, Stronger and More Effective

TorrentFreak

Between 2019 and 2021, the number of illegal websites and streaming subscription services operated from North America reportedly dropped from 1,400 to just 200. Cease and Desist. While court cases are also part of the repertoire, a cease-and-desist letter is usually the first step taken.

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ACE Says It ‘Shut Down’ Two Pirate Sites But That’s Not Quite The Full Story

TorrentFreak

From a high of 1,400 illegal platforms in that region in 2019, various anti-piracy campaigns reportedly reduced that number to 238 in 2021. The sites are taken down in a number of ways, from cease-and-desist warnings to full-blown litigation.

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#MajeMyDogandI: No copyright protection for a selfie in the lift

The IPKat

During Summer 2019, Mercredie became aware of the fall-winter 2019 advertising campaign, entitled #MajeMyDogandI, by ready-to-wear company Maje. As a result, Mercredie sent a cease-and-desist letter to the French brand on 16 September 2019.

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PrimeStreams IPTV Targeted in Multi-Million Dollar Piracy Lawsuit

TorrentFreak

In late 2019, the IPTV provider found itself being extorted by a hacker who claimed to have obtained the details of around 121,000 of its subscribers. The complaint states that around September 24, 2021, the defendants were notified that their service violates federal laws and told to cease and desist.

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What To Consider When Launching a Cause Marketing Campaign

LexBlog IP

For example, between 2019 and 2020, both the New York and California attorneys general sent cease and desist letters to the Black Lives Matter Foundation, which had no involvement with the Black Lives Matter movement, yet was soliciting millions of dollars in donations.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. seeks only damages based on the reactions of advertisers (third parties) to CCDH’s speech in the Toxic Twitter report, which CCDH created after the scraping. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. The ToS did not define “scraping.”