The IPKat

JULY 4, 2021

The UK IPO has launched a public consultation on the post-implementation review of Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, regarding whether the 2016 amendments achieved their objectives. Common Market Law Review has announced the 2021 Prize for Young Academics. Submissions on any topic on EU law are expected until September 15, 2021.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

ChatGPT has only been trained on pre-2021 data, before the proliferation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs (an observation and not a judgment). Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Other industries have been reckoning with bias in AI as well.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 15, 2021

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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 4] Andrew L.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The museum industry, it would seem, is taking note of technology’s growing role in its operations, particularly in regards to visitor engagement and staying relevant in a social media-driven society where declining visitation rates have only been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To set the scene, the EU Commission first adopted its Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (the Proposed Act ) back in April 2021. The Commission will be responsible for ensuring appropriate coordination and cooperation between the designated conformity assessment bodies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

Today’s example is AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), Before we get overwhelmed by the bill’s details, I’ll highlight three crucial concerns: First, the bill pretextually claims to protect children, but it will change the Internet for EVERYONE. Age-Appropriate Design Code.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Rothschild began selling his METABIRKINS NFTs in December 2021. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks. His NFT sales have reportedly surpassed $1.1

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 11, 2023

Finnberry has been developed through extensive trials conducted between 2015 and 2021 in Corvallis and Aurora, Oregon. Developed after years of research and observation, this new plant promises to offer several distinct advantages over existing varieties of raspberries, including improved fruit quality, higher yields, and healthier plants.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. Here’s wishing all our readers a very happy, safe, and healthy new year! b) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) and.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

For a succinct background on NFTs, see Your NFT Playbook , by our colleagues Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, and Carlton Daniel, posted in Consumer Privacy World. Rothschild began selling his METABIRKINS NFTs in December 2021. NFTs also may embody or use trademarks. His NFT sales have reportedly surpassed $1.1

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Its AI is designed to detect and prevent crimes. Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Unauthorised use of someone’s identity is a violation of both their personality rights and their basic right to privacy. The Court rejected the privacy defence, which is often employed in IP proceedings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2021

He shared this story on social media with the “#airbnbwhileblack” hashtag, which went viral. ” The court explains: Airbnb’s screen used a simple design. 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.”

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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. Analyst and Project Officer. with Senior Staff members.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Today, social media has become a vital part of our lives. Before, there were various print media outlets that we could rely on such as newspapers, television, and radio. However, now, with the rise of social media, users can now create their own content and spread it with thousands of people. What is Social Media?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Meanwhile, product design is the real Section 230 battlefront today, and the Lemmon case is the flagship case for that line of litigation. Privacy Review: 16 C.F.R. Part 312, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’s Regulations Overview of the E.U.’s Social Media People v. Last year, I shrunk the book by 7%.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The Facebook Page is a Designated Public Forum. The court says the city made the Facebook page into a designated public forum because: it allows “comments on its Facebook posts and City Council meetings without any prior approval” “the City does not always apply its ‘off topic’ rule consistently.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The court summarizes the allegations: Plaintiffs John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 allege that when they were thirteen years old they were solicited and recruited for sex trafficking and manipulated into providing to a third-party sex trafficker pornographic videos (“the Videos”) of themselves through the social media platform Snapchat.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

And there is no comparison to legislative designation of telephone companies as common carriers, for telephone companies do not exercise editorial discretion over the communications they carry, and no legislature ever complained that telephone companies were forwarding a leftist agenda by blocking conservative calls. .”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 31, 2021

This will include a robust arbitration process and the creation of IP right for article extracts shared on social media platforms. . Make sure that Netflix, Facebook, Google, and other digital media companies play by the same rules as Canadian broadcasters. Privacy Policy. Data Policy.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Consequently, in April 2021, the European Commission proposed the first EU regulatory framework for AI – the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). General purpose AI system” means an AI system that can be used in and adapted to a wide range of applications for which it was not intentionally and specifically designed.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 16, 2023

Over the years, the FTC has issued many 6(b) studies, ranging from the annual studies of cigarette and tobacco marketing to a 2021 study on internet service provider privacy issues to a 2018 study on mobile security issues. Second, the substance Two items were on the agenda today, and they both involve FTC 6(b) studies.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 17, 2023

Consequently, in April 2021, the European Commission proposed the first EU regulatory framework for AI – the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). “Foundation model” means an AI system model that is trained on broad data at scale, is designed for generality of output, and can be adapted to a wide range of distinctive tasks.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

NY Times : What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media. * NY Times : Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump. * “ False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.” 2021 WL 214206 (N.D. Baker-White, 2021 WL 963527 (3d Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Moreover, there is nothing to suggest that the CFRA was designed to be used as a defense to a private breach of contract action. Rivals * MIT Technology Review : This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (regarding “Nightshade”) Privacy * FTC v. Kochava, Inc., 2023 WL 3249809 (D.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

Cameron Boyce and Nicole Berger ( Runt ) As the parties negotiated in mid-2021, Virtuoso says Coakley demanded $1,375,000 to fund a pilot for one of his other projects, allegedly threatening to take actions that would be “harmful to the commercial success of Runt ” if his demand wasn’t met. In one notable case, Balsley v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Definition of “Hateful conduct” means “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

I’ve posted a 2021 year-in-review post for emoji law , and I will post a separate Section 230 year-in-review soon. In 2021, governments lost several rulings over their online content moderation efforts. First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. See, e.g., Kimsey v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In Arkansas, a law requiring parental consent before minors sign up for social media accounts didn’t survive intermediate scrutiny. 31, 2023) Arkansas’ law says minors need parental consent before creating social media accounts. A simple goal to state, but virtually impossible to implement constitutionally.

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