TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2021, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Zilly ruled that the hacking, theft, and contract breach allegations survive Bungie’s motion to dismiss so can proceed. This attempt was more successful.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The arbitrator’s decision itself is filed under seal, but the court recaps the arbitrator’s findings: Although the contracts between Plaintiff and Amazon concerning the purchase of the diet pills at issue were illegal and unenforceable, the CoU that governed the transactions were severable and remained enforceable. Amazon, 2021 U.S.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This article was originally posted on E-TIPS For Deeth Williams Wall LLP on December 8, 2021. On November 16, 2021, Miramax filed a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino for his planned auction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) based on his original hand-written script of the film Pulp Fiction.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contracts are a state-law issue. And online contracts, even though they exist in the friction-less, boundary-less world of the internet, are also generally governed by state-law principles. There are relatively few state-court cases with outsized influence in the law of online contracts. 9, 2021, No. See, e.g., Britt v.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

Any legal policy that encourages data snarfing must simultaneously contend with the potentially anti-competitive and anti-social effects of preventing legitimate players from snarfing, along with the potentially massive privacy and security risks that data snarfers create. ” Oof. BrandTotal sought summary judgment that Section 3.2.3

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Porter Wright is proud to announce that international business and privacy & data security attorney Katja Garvey has been elevated to serve as chair of the firm’s International Business & Trade Practice Group. International business, and privacy and data security experience.

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Patently-O

MARCH 13, 2022

Coffey sued OK Foods, bringing a class action for negligence, breach of implied contract, breach of confidence, invasion of privacy, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The defendant pointed the district court toward the 2021 decision in TransUnion LLC v. 2190 (2021).

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 4, 2021

More states, including Ohio, are working on comprehensive consumer privacy laws that could impact how companies share data. In our August 2021 Privacy and Security Roundup , we cover the nuances in the various legislation, more ransomware and supply chain attacks and news of a messaging app used as a Trojan horse by the FBI.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 16, 2023

The work is cutting-edge, like 2021’s GridExchange Pilot, a transactive, blockchain-backed energy platform and marketplace. Proper strategy, governance, processes, policies and contracts are needed to ensure any IP creation resulting from the collaboration and any real upside potential can be shared with Alectra.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. With that said, the Ninth Circuit did some serious hand-waving on the privacy issues.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 29, 2023

The lawsuit began in August 2021 with the aim of shutting down the ‘Wallhax’ cheat. Bungie Asks Court For More Time Earlier this month, Bungie was awarded over $16 million against a single defendant, with claims spanning copyright law, breach of contract, and civil RICO violations. By June 2022, Bungie had a $13.5

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LexBlog IP

JULY 16, 2021

The Guidelines helpfully set out the EDPB’s recommendations on what should be included in data processing contracts between controllers and processors, in order to ensure compliance with Article 28 GDPR. The Guidelines warn that a data processing contract should not merely restate the provisions of Article 28 GDPR.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The law does not apply to contracts covering confidential and proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, or inventions assignment agreements. Contract lawyers know that to be enforceable a promise must be supported by consideration. One-size-fits-all contracts always need fine-tuning. Application. Consideration.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In the October edition of our Privacy and Security Roundup , we dive into the latest details surrounding OFAC’s efforts to stifle ransomware attacks, how organizations should carefully assess the new Personal Information Protection Law in China, the new EU Standard Contractual Clauses requirement effective Sept. 27, and more.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Early July 2021, Roderique received a message from a friend who had visited The Hudson’s Bay Company (The Bay) where she came upon Roderique’s photo for the company’s “ Charter for Change ” initiative. Section 13(3) states that if the photographer was contracted for work, the photos taken belong to their employer. The Legal Side.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

I completed my last Internet Law class before Thanksgiving 2021 and had Spring semester off. That’s a long prelude to explaining how my “summer 2022” really dates back to November 2021 and won’t end until January. I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. This year is a little different.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 9, 2021

On the one hand, there are privacy and data protection concerns, as this is a particularly intrusive form of data processing. The court narrowly ruled the case as an individual breach of contract between Guo and the park due to lack of consent, ordering the park to delete Guo’s data and pay him a certain amount of money as compensation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Southwest asserts claims under the CFAA, the Texas computer crime statute, breach of contract, and trademark. Southwest relied on its breach of contract claim when requesting an injunction. The court previously denied Kiwi’s motion to dismiss, without much discussion of the merits. Case citation : Southwest Airlines Co.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Crowell & Moring presented a webinar discussing the most influential trade secret cases from 2021 along with new legal developments, including non-compete legislation and trade secret maintenance. Many states proposed or passed restrictions on non-compete clauses in contracts, including Illinois, Nevada, Oregon and DC.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I’m a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, located in California’s Silicon Valley, where I hold the titles of Associate Dean for Research, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, and Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate. When we finalized our dataset in early 2021, we found 62 opinions. Section 230.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

The Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021: Overbroad, Disproportionate and Unnecessary. In this post , Adyasha analyses the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021 (‘Bill’) which seeks ‘ to tackle the menace of film piracy ’, and is a revision of the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2019. The deadline for submissions is September 19, 2021.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Robinhood Financial LLC, 2021 WL 6882392, No. 8, 2021) Plaintiffs alleged that unauthorized third parties were able to access approximately 2,000 Robinhood customers’ accounts and deplete their funds due to Robinhood’s insufficient security measures. Was it plausible that plaintiffs relied on the Financial Privacy Notice?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. The claims were unsuccessful, and I speculated that the church may have had better luck if it had a viable trademark or a contract claim, neither of which it had.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Thus, the Terms of Use Agreement is a proper clickwrap contract, and the undisputed facts establish that Lindsey Partridge assented to its terms Case Citation : In re Chaves, 2024 U.S. .'” Publisher/Speaker Claim. In this respect, GMB functioned as a payment processor, nothing more.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2021

Directly below the three buttons, it stated: “By signing up, I agree to Airbnb’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Guest Refund Policy, and Host Guarantee Terms.” 2021 WL 2932203 (D.C. July 13, 2021). It had three buttons allowing users to sign up using Facebook, Google, or email. Case citation : Selden v. Airbnb, Inc.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here. In February , Kenya’s parliament passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021. This Africa IP Highlights 2022 is the result of collaboration between myself and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. We begin with developments in the copyright field.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Missed deadline and transposition In the same way as many EU member states, Ireland missed the transposition deadline (7 June 2021). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021. The key element to note here is that the Regulations are a type of secondary legislation, known as a Statutory Instrument.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2021

It seeks to protect and expand the right to freedom of speech, right to dignity and equality, right to assembly and association, and the right to privacy in the digital age, through rigorous academic research, policy intervention, and capacity building. Application Process. In case of any doubts, please contact us at ccg@nludelhi.ac.in

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

billion and is projected to reach USD 5 billion in 2025, according to a 2021 BCG report. State of Karnataka , Under Article 226 of Indian Constitution , the petitioners from online gaming sector, challenged Karnataka Police (Amendment) Act 2021 in Karnataka High Court. In 2020, India’s mobile gaming sector earned USD 1.5

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2021

Upon that, The IPKat is delighted to host the following guest post co-authored by Anja Geller (PhD candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) and Zihao Li (PhD candidate at CREATe, University of Glasgow, on privacy and data protection in the Chinese Civil Code).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

To give a bit of a context, it is worth noting that in July 2021, Andreesen Horowitz confirmed their commitment to crypto by announcing the launch of their $2.2 Besides, creators can benefit from smart contracts and determine that a certain percentage of the sales price goes to the original creator each time the work is resold.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As part of the new Fair Consumer Contracts Act , [ Gesetz für Faire Verbraucherverträge ; published in the Federal Gazette (Part I) no. 53/2021, p. 3433 et seq., full text publicly available ( in German ) Germany will soon require specific cancellation/termination mechanisms for consumer subscriptions.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 26, 2023

46/2021 Electronic Transactions and Trust Services. 46/2021: Enhancing Trust and Facilitating Electronic Transactions Federal Decree-Law No. 46/2021 focuses on promoting electronic transactions, investment, and the provision of electronic services to the public. These contracts are legally valid and enforceable.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It’s the time of year again when we are taking a look at 2021’s top ten most read posts. Pellett (May 10, 2021). Trade Secret Misappropriation or Breach of Contract? By: Raija Horstman (March 2, 2021). By: Raija Horstman and Yao Mou (January 25, 2021). Jones, and Joshua Pond (January 14, 2021).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

2021 WL 5910071 (S.D.N.Y. maybe the US court will be more pro-consumer/less business-tilted than UK courts? I also invite your speculations about why the plaintiffs chose to litigate in the US and are fighting to stay here. Case citation : Finch v. Xandr, Inc., The post New York Court Is the Wrong Venue for UK GDPR Class Action–Finch v.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 28, 2024

NFTs are embedded with smart contracts—self-executing contracts written in code—that facilitate the transfer and verification of ownership. The defendant claimed that minting was a part of his reserved right to print and publication under the contract. Smart Contracts: Are they enough?

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