Dragons' Den

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lucy found a gap in the market for a stylish pill case when she started taking regular medication. One of the reasons Lucy was looking for investment was that she was worried that someone could copy her idea. Paola stood firm that this type of product didn’t already exist on the market, but sadly this wasn’t enough to convince Peter.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— 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. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. When sales are replaced by pirated copies, authors earn a lot less. Congress and Google Must Do More. Whois Privacy Corp.,

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 7, 2023

One of the individual defendants is “a social media personality and model who became well-known for her photos and videos, and who has also started an agency to provide management services to other models and influencers.” But in Bell , the copy was apparently always infringing, which doesn’t seem to be the case here.

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43(B)log

JUNE 26, 2023

16, 2023) The court refused to dismiss copyright and trademark claims based on copying of a TV show format, including the hosts. In 2020, as America reckoned with police brutality after the death of George Floyd, the show was taken off the air.” Fan reactions on social media included “Ok. 7411 (KPF) (S.D.N.Y. I missed it!”

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They weren’t directly asked about the phrase “Super Creatine,” whether participants had prior experiences with or opinions of Bang, or whether they had seen Vital’s advertising in the market. Dr. Chiagouris also opined on two Monster-commissioned surveys conducted by InfoScout, a market research firm.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the 2020 report, several of the mentioned pirate sites and services have disappeared. Since then, the company is no longer labeled a ‘notorious market’ Other sites and services have also dropped off the list. A copy of the European Commission’s third Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List is available here (pdf).

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2022

.” But the agency just announced a case against a more prominent player in the industry, Vision Path , which markets Hubble contact lenses. For the past few years, the FTC considered changes to the Rule, and in 2020, the agency, after much deliberation, announced such changes. How are they getting money here?

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” The COVID-19 Act was enacted on December 27, 2020.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The C4 dataset, created by Google in 2020, is taken from the Common Crawl dataset, which is an open-source dataset and “ a massive collection of web pages and websites consisting of petabytes of data collected over twelve (12) years, including raw web page data, metadata extracts, and text extracts ” (§ I.78 76) (see here and here ).

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

million viewers back in 2020. A huge chunk of Molly Mae’s success comes from social media channel Instagram, where she is reported to charge over £10,000 for each sponsored post. When applying to register, you use the classification system to define the goods and/or services area you'll be marketing in.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

In the wake of the 2020 Lukis v. For example, if a third-party poster copies a newspaper article and posts it to their social media page, the court implies that the social media service can never assert Section 230 protection for that article–even if the third-party poster isn’t infringing copyright because of, say, fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Finally, in October 2020, Facebook nuked the Shared account (and the personal accounts of some of its employees) and blocked Shared’s ads. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This is an important point because many account termination cases are driven by the data the plaintiffs have lost.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 277 (2020). [iv]

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The TTABlog

JUNE 10, 2021

In July 2020, the CAFC remanded to the TTAB the Board's decision that found the proposed mark COOKINPELLETS.COM to be generic for "Processed wood fuel in the nature of pellets for use in barbecue grills," and alternatively merely descriptive of those goods. 2020 USPQ2d 10729 (2020). TTABlogged here ]. Booking.com B.V.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That order actually topped my list of the 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2020 because, by sending the case to a jury, the court effectively ruled that anyone with a tattoo is not in control of the uses to which his or her likeness is put. There’s a lot at stake. Take-Two had prior success with its de minimis defense in Solid Oak Sketches v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. Anthony, 2020 WL 11206863 (N.D. Day to Day Imports appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Prior Posts on Section 512(f).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

WCT’s principal testified that he continued developing a new version of the Bike+ app from 2017 until 2020, writing “over 2.4 In mid-July 2020, Apple released a new operating system that introduced a bug; in September, he reported this bug to Apple. After an inquiry, Apple confirmed in December 2020 that the bug was fixed.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

The challenge becomes even bigger if NFTs are to be commercialized, exploited, and protected in different jurisdictions and at the same time — particularly when those markets include China, where protection for a foreign NFT creator or exploiter may face unique challenges. Therefore, DCs cannot be freely transacted in the Chinese market.

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

On 12 th February 2021, Taylor Swift re-released one of her most famous songs “Love Story” the reason being as Swift told Good Morning America last August was, “My contract says that starting November 2020 … I can record albums one through five all over again.”. All copies are made from this recording. A Conglomerate.

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IP Whiteboard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since our breakdown in March 2020 of Justice Katzmann’s ruling in the Federal Court in favour of American burger chain In-N-Out in its bitter trademark dispute with local Australian company Hashtag Burgers Pty Ltd of DOWN-N-OUT (now Plan B) notoriety, another round of this sizzling hot battle of the burgers has been fought before the Full Court.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The challenge becomes even bigger if NFTs are to be commercialized, exploited, and protected in different jurisdictions and at the same time — particularly when those markets include China, where protection for a foreign NFT creator or exploiter may face unique challenges. Tiffany created 250 NFTs and put them on the market.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Their terms say I own full commercial (note they don’t say “exclusive”) rights to it and can apply for trademark registration for it (through the, naturally, even though they aren’t lawyers and will just copy whatever you provide them into the application and submit it whether it’s appropriate or not).

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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Copyright Lately

JULY 10, 2022

” In a December 2019 social media post made shortly after the Art Basel exhibition, Morford proclaimed to his Facebook followers: “I did this in 2000. You’ll notice that Morford is suing over a piece of art called Banana & Orange , which he registered with the Copyright Office in 2020.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

case concerning the creation and dissemination of a meme on social media saw the Court of Appeals clarify that “the fact that everyone else is doing it is not a particularly compelling justification” for the fair use doctrine under 17 U.S.C. § Now, adding one more nail to the coffin of the #SaveOurMemes movement, a U.S. 107 to apply.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Coakley’s Certificate of Engagement (from court files) Allegations of On-Set Misconduct Emerge Runt premiered at the Mammoth Film Festival in February 2020 , where the film took home the festival’s Audience Award for Best Feature Film. Virtuoso later transferred its rights in Runt to Wagging Tails.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2021

Courts don’t do really prong one beyond assessing access (not independently assessing copying). Bedi and Reibstein 2020 found marginal evidence of tarnishment in a single-impression, centrally processed experience (they’re paying attention); stronger tarnishment with multi impression, peripheral processing (they’re not paying attention).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 20, 2022

Sweeping Elections & IP Fallout Of Politics : The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets recently ran a feature on local elections in India under the headline In India, a Fish on the Campaign Trail Can Help at the Ballot Box. 2020-2205, slip op.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2022

Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its role in the “Big Lie” about the 2020 presidential election results survives Fox News’ motion to dismiss. WSJ : How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms. Fox Network News LLC , No.: N21C-03-257 EMD (Del. Superior Ct. US Dominion v.

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