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competitor's copying of photos doesn't inherently inflict competitive harm

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Natorp’s removed all of his photos from its website shortly after he complained, but the photos allegedly remained “online at various social media outlets including Natorp’s private website, Facebook, and Pinterest.” McCleese registered copyrights for his photos in 2019.

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1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 4 (Advertising, Contracts, & More)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Advertising/E-Commerce. 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. To navigate the seemingly unending stream of advertisements, consumers often depend on independent reviews for candid and accurate assessments. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp.,

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False advertising-based antitrust claims against Facebook survive motion to dismiss

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14, 2022) Once in a blue moon, a false advertising-based antitrust claim survives a motion to dismiss in a circuit that imposes a list of excessive requirements on such claims. Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets.

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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

It has opened wide range of facilities for us like entertainment, education, advertisements, communication etc. Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters.

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The “Excitable Edgar” Dragon Copyright Case

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The case of Evans v John Lewis Plc & Anor [2023] EWHC 766 (IPEC) is a copyright infringement claim in which the IPEC (a specialist IP court in the UK) was asked to decide whether John Lewis’s 2019 Christmas advert and an associated book infringed the copyright in a children’s book. It said this showed it had not copied the book.

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"TM-compliant" ads not shown to be nominative fair use

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An axe-throwing business owner testified that, in 2019, he and two other league members believed that WATL worked with Cold Steel to manufacture axes, based on advertisements on Cold Steel’s website. Use of the mark with the words “compliant,” “legal,” and “meets.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. 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. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts. Bright Data Ltd. ,