TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Early January 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit against cheat makers EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A Early January 2022, Activision filed a lawsuit against cheat makers EngineOwning UG and CMN Holdings S.A The order applies only to the defendants listed in the order dated December 19, 2022.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 14, 2022

The new 2022 SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract (the 2022 Contract), which is retroactively effective to April 1, 2022, appears to offer certain benefits to advertiser and agency signatories of the Commercials Contract, particularly JPC authorizers, as well as Union member performers.

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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. sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2022

The parties are now fighting over control and ownership of certain social media accounts created during the pendency of Ms. As of January 2022, the Instagram account had over a million followers (@misshayleypaige). ” In this instance, the contracts between the parties seemed pretty clear that Ms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” May 31, 2022). She now does her tattoo artistry pro bono. Nature of the Work.

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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. 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. See generally, Christopher A.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 17, 2022

In today’s social media-powered world, it would’ve been devasting. On May 18, 2022, Leone tweeted an image of Bungie employee Dylan Gaffner. Ok” On July 4, 2022, after temporarily moving to Washington State, Leone doubled down. But it looked bad. Like really bad. Then things began to escalate.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2024

The site launched in the fall of 2022 , just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. The complaint mentioned that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist” on social media. criminal crackdown, to ensure continued availability of ‘free’ books and articles to the broader public.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content. As social media posts generate buzz and draw fans, spectators will have a chance to enjoy getting behind-the-scenes looks and instant updates from their favourite athletes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Prager tried a variety of contract-based workarounds to Section 230. Going beyond the contracts, Prager looks to various “promises” it alleges that defendants made through public-facing comments. Indeed, the whole “but the algorithms” attack on Section 230 has always been nonsensical.

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IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

With more businesses developing and using AI-based automated decision-making (ADM) systems, algorithmic discrimination (at work , social media , or public services ) has been in the spotlight (in both the public and governments’ eyes). 701 (Warehouse Quota Law, 2022). California: Assembly Bill No. Employers (?25

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2024

Good practices should be identified, and recommended to all actors, including e-commerce marketplaces, transport and logistic service providers, payment services providers, social media providers, providers of domain name services, etc. Secondly, further cooperation and information sharing should be encouraged.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Biden , 2022 U.S. March 18, 2022). Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? Case citation : Huber v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Shared sued Facebook for: Shared avers that Meta committed conversion (Claim 1), breach of contract (Claim 3), and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (Claim 4) in suspending access to Shared’s Facebook pages, contrary to the Facebook Terms of Service. 2022 WL 4372349 (N.D. Case citation : Shared.com v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

BrandTotal “provides advertising consulting services to corporate clients regarding how those clients’ and their competitors’ digital advertisements are presented to social media users.” Law students, this is one of many reasons why your 1L Contracts class is so important. ” Oof.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

2022), the Second Circuit held that JLM Couture’s non-compete was enforceable through New York’s oft-overlooked “uniqueness” exception. Included within the JLM contract were certain restrictive covenants, including a non-competition agreement, as well as various intellectual property assignment provisions. Cohen , 173 F.3d Gutman , No.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

© Simon Geiregat 2022. Portability as a Consumer Contract Remedy. Unlike the GDPR, the Directives do not provide for a right to have the content sent directly to a new co-contracting party of the consumer’s choice. Data portability rights are hot in EU legislation.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Since then, large models generating not just text and image but also video, games, music and code, have become a global obsession, touted as set to revolutionise innovation and democratise creativity, against a background of media frenzy.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

Digital assets can be protected by IP and have always been capable of being licensed or assigned via a contract, or protected as a trade mark. There have also been complaints where creators have tried to NFT their own creativity but by doing so have breached a contract.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2022, here. The Regulations were made pursuant to section 45 of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act and came into force on 18th March 2022. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2022

Whether creating a social media account, signing up a for an online service, or just trying to get to bank statements, more and more businesses are linking to their standard terms and conditions online for suppliers and customers. Two Types of Online Contracts. J ust How Enforceable Are Online Terms? What You Need To Know.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2023

million visits per month in the last quarter of 2022, with almost 22% of its visitors hailing from the United States. social media platforms such as YouTube, came predominantly from the United States, with Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter users adding to the total. social media platforms did so via U.S.-based

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

The media industry as a whole encourages creativity and innovation, and copyright is crucial for digital media platforms. Media platforms, such as social media, are utilised to carry out their professional, commercial, and private functions. REUTERS (2021), [link] (last visited July 01, 2022).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2023

After a warning, Amazon again yanked his authoring privileges in February 2022 (the phrases that offended: “many Millennials are woketards” and “Wuhan plague”). Breach of Contract. Plus, the contract reserved Amazon’s right to delete content and terminate accounts in its sole discretion. You can imagine how well that went.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 16, 2022

On April 5 th 2022, the Federal Court released its decision for August Image LLC v AirG Inc , a copyright infringement action concerning images of singer-actress, Jennifer Lopez. 2022 FC 470: [link]. Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. They sought $22,412.45 Further Reading.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On 1 June 2022 new competition rules for vertical agreements came into force in the EU and UK, the first time the two have diverged in recent years and a move requiring businesses operating in the territories to comply with both regimes. Read more. . Treatment of most favoured nation clauses – Stricter approach and more clarity needed.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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43(B)log

MARCH 4, 2022

Tito & Tita Food Truck, LLC, 2022 WL 622234, No. 3, 2022) Plaintiffs alleged that they employed the individual defendants in part to manage social media advertising and promotion for plaintiffs’ baking businesses, aka La Baguette. Pan 4 America, LLC v. DLB-21-401 (D.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On 1 June 2022 new competition rules for vertical agreements came into force in the EU and UK, the first time the two have diverged in recent years and a move requiring businesses operating in the territories to comply with both regimes. Read more. . Treatment of most favoured nation clauses – Stricter approach and more clarity needed.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

There was a notification to Marouf to suspend the contract on August 19th and it was formally suspended on September 23rd. The department confirmed that it did no due diligence on Marouf, relying instead on a prior review of his organization, the Community Media Advocacy Centre. These claims that no one knew are not credible.

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The way our smart contracts are written is like the money is always credited to the rights holder’s account and it’s absolutely our aim for them to always get paid, like it’s the mission of the company to help artists create a billion dollars and I think we can get there. So there’s a lot of nuances out there. What’s Next?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Another targets The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK nonprofit known for scraping the platform to quantify the proliferation of hate speech, for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, inducing breach of contract, and civil violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

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BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Francis") committed copyright infringement and was in breach of contract over the use of hundreds of photographs he took for the school and its students. Francis, located in Watsonville, CA, contracted with Morlos to be the exclusive provider of photography service for the school from June 2018 to May 2021. Morlos and St.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Jim Gibson, Against Reputation In contracts, defamation, TM, conceptions of reputation are misguided. Leah Chan Grinvald: Does social media make it easier to establish secondary meaning with virality? Assumptions about accuracy, reliability and value of reputation are blithe/unsubstantiated. How is reputation constructed in law?

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 6, 2024

Yonay’s widow and son launched the legal action in June 2022 after Paramount Pictures released the blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick without renegotiating a license to adapt Yonay’s “Top Guns” article, despite a 2018 copyright termination notice served by his heirs. As always, I’d love to know what you think.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 25, 2023

In 2022, PSG reported losses of €368 million, with reports suggesting that Mbappe’s contract will end up costing the club around €630 million euros. Over the past several days, DAZN has been the subject of relentless criticism on social media. billion in the red.

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