Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * 2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” targeted social media advertising. Comptroller , No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). 2021 WL 151978 (N.D. 2021 WL 2476853 (E.D. La Marque, 2021 WL 1997376 (D.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 7, 2021

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021. VERIZON: Method and apparatus of analyzing social network data to identify a financial market trend. GOOGLE Promoting social media content in search. Method and apparatus of analyzing social network data to identify a financial market trend. Interesting Patents. 11,195,238.

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms.

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The IPKat

MARCH 1, 2024

On 22 February 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) released its report on “ The impact of complicit social media influencers on male’s consumption of counterfeit goods in the UK ”. A pilot report, mostly focused on female consumers, was delivered back in 2021 and commented by Eleonora Rosati on The IPKat here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. Google * 2021 Section 230 Year-in-Review * Eleventh Circuit Rejects “Material Support for Terrorists” Case–Colon v. Two of those cases, Gonzalez v.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Doe, 2021 WL 3684116, No. 18, 2021) Doe, a real a **e (“deeply unsympathetic,” to use the court’s terms), advertised “ASU Covid Parties” on a similarly-named Instagram account and spewed a lot of bile as well as, in its first post, using ASU’s colors. Arizona Board of Regents v. CV-20-01638-PHX-DWL (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This is one of the many lawsuits against social media services for allegedly providing material support to terrorists. Google LLC , 2021 WL 2546675 (9th Cir. June 22, 2021), which I never had the chance to blog because it’s 167 pages and the panel was so deeply split that the whole decision clearly needs en banc review.

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IIPRD

JUNE 26, 2024

A social media influencer is someone who creates content based on their niche in various social media platforms where they deliver information by uploading in the mediums of long format videos, short format videos or reels, static posts and stories.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 5, 2021

LLC, 2021 WL 466975 (S.D.N.Y. 9, 2021): “At the motion to dismiss stage, Kidmoto has plausibly alleged more than just the purchase of a competitor’s mark as a search engine keyword standing alone. 2021 WL 1163117 (E.D.N.Y. March 18, 2021). 2021 WL 1226156 (S.D.N.Y. April 1, 2021). June 7, 2021).

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

On October 4, 2021, it was publicized that Facebook Inc. The FTC initially filed a complaint that Facebook had a monopoly and requested the sale of Instagram and WhatsApp to prevent a monopoly over the social media market. Does Facebook have a monopoly over the market? Photo by Brett Jordan ( Pexels ).

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The new app then launched in January 2021. initial Bike+ app with [bike more] in name and b+ in icon 2021 Bike+ name with logo and "Bike" in icon Like the 2014 app, the 2021 app is for metric tracking while cycling. WCT’s principal testified that the 2021 app is functional for both indoor and outdoor bike rides.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

November 23, 2021. Tue, 11/23/2021 - 13:13. Saturday, November 27, 2021 is Small Business Saturday – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. Get free Small Business Saturday marketing materials ? Get free Small Business Saturday marketing materials ?- KCPullen@doc.gov.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

TikTok Pirates For example, when a viral clip from a TV series is making the rounds on social media platforms, one could argue that this serves as free advertising. This conclusion is quite intuitive in a social media world where ‘influencers’ are widely used to promote content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted “social media censorship” laws. ” The laws assembled a multitude of disparate policy ideas about how the legislatures could “censor” social media platforms. The odds the current Internet will survive this multi-staged review intact is very low.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2022

art market, the Report concluded that there was no immediate need to impose new regulations on the art market to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. Yet the Report also discussed how the art market remains susceptible to money laundering and describes how market participants can minimize this risk. Background.

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Above the Fold

MAY 25, 2022

Social media has taken over, with social media users nearly doubling from 2.3 billion in 2021. [1] 1] Social media platforms provide direct access to consumers, with the ability to focus on niche consumer groups. 2] Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers (ftc.gov). [3]

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

When BBB fans aren’t glued to their TVs waiting for the drama to unfold, many can be found on social media, usually speculating about what comes next, based on what they’ve just seen. For example, there is an impact on the attractiveness of audiovisual products for the advertising market,” it reads.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Among other problems, the law dictates how “social media platforms” can make their editorial decisions. Fortunately, a Florida federal judge blocked Florida’s social media censorship law as unconstitutional. This is not unique to social media.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 25, 2024

98, 107 (2017) for the passage that social media has become the “modern public square.” — Justice Alito writes that “research suggests that social media are having a devastating effect on many young people, leading to depression, isolation, bullying, and intense pressure to endorse the trend or cause of the day.” .

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2022

Founded in 2012 as a multi-level marketing company (“MLM”) selling women’s clothing, LuLaRoe reached 80,000 distributors by 2017. Throughout this blog post, I take a legal look at both multi-level marketing companies and their close relation to pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes. MLMs are nothing new.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 25, 2022

Social media has taken over, with social media users nearly doubling from 2.3 billion in 2021. [1] 1] Social media platforms provide direct access to consumers, with the ability to focus on niche consumer groups. 2] Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers (ftc.gov). [3]

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Welch 2021. Applicant pointed to five existing third-party registrations for marks containing the word SUNSET in arguing that the word "SUNSET" is a weak formative]. Read comments and post your comment here. TTABlog comment: How did you do? See any WYHAs? Text Copyright John L.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Frederick Andrew Braunstein, Akerman LLP (left the case in 2021). Reena Jain, Akerman LLP (left the case in 2021). Her inability to control social media accounts referencing her reminded me of the Hayley Paige Gutman litigation , and I will say more about this issue when I blog the JW Dant bourbon case. Esquared Hosp. ,

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

According to the Complaint, Schwartz began working for Kilroy’s as a server and bartender in August of 2021. He also stated that he created Intellectual Property for the Defendants’ social media accounts, digital marketing, and other advertising vehicles.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. See generally, Christopher A.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

All three are functionally similar tools (marketing and community approaches aside) but Applinked is perhaps the most interesting for a couple of reasons. On the 21st of October 2021 I will no longer own the rights or any code to applinked… I will be the senior developer for 6 months after. Applinked Developer Operated Openly.

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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. 6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet).

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Barlow and Bear went on to become viral sensations on social media and Grammy-winning artists (2022 Best Musical Theatre Album) for their production. Netflix has responded that “ Barlow & Bear’s conduct began on social media, but stretches ‘fan fiction’ well past its breaking point. District Court in D.C.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. After an unexplained absence in 2021, YTS.mx reappeared in the report last year.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

That legal standard could devastate social media usage in Australia. It increases the risk that ordinary social media users could be liable for defamation caused by their so-called friends. That risk encourages social media users to actively police the comments of their friends–or stop posting entirely.

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