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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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#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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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. Copyright law forbids duplication, public performance, and so on, unless the person wishing to copy or perform the work gets permission; silence means a ban on copying. 2019 WL 3555509 (D. 634 F.Supp.2d

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. However, scraping generally means “extracting data from a website and copying it into a structured format, allowing for data manipulation or analysis.”

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 to 3 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here , here and here. These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790).

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is the initial copying design (without of the background graphics in the precedent work): The copyright registrant alleged this copying design constituted copyright infringement. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D. Summit Entertainment. * Cease & Desist Letter to iTunes Isn’t Covered by 17 USC 512(f)–Red Rock v.