Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2024

For those new to the bill, the government has called it “fundamentally flawed” since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns through mandated age verification technologies, website blocking, and extends far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

First, Snapchat may not have had the legal right to snoop into the conversation due to the ECPA and other privacy laws, so there’s no way for Snapchat to tell if the conversation was about helping with homework or sexual grooming. 2022 WL 2528615 (S.D. July 7, 2022). This matters a lot for the victim’s claims.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

For reasons that make absolutely no sense while somehow making perfect sense, millions of internet users think that social media platforms are perfect for piracy. Nevertheless, the masses love quick and easy so in common with similar platforms everywhere, social media has a piracy problem.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention. First, the bill is not limited to pornography sites.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Disclosures, Endorsements, Dark Patterns – Oh, My!

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If he is, either the clinic is violating medical privacy rules or 50 Cent consented to the disclosure, and that consent could potentially extend to the photo. Potential irony alert: 50 Cent has taunted Diddy for getting botox … When, if ever, can a company share a photo of a customer/friend on social media without consent?

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tinder social media channels.'” The allegations expressly referenced the publication function, always a tipoff: “Counts VII and VIII allege that Match Defendants ‘published Plaintiff Alberts’ images, private activities, likeness, voice and/or identity on. ” IP Exception. In Almeida v. Tinder, Inc.,

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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

This article was originally posted on E-TIPS For Deeth Williams Wall LLP on June 15, 2022. On June 2, 2022, the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the Court) issued its decision in the ongoing class action matter, Douez v Facebook, Inc. , 2022 BCSC 914 , holding that Facebook, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s bottom line for anonymizing privacy services is that they must comply with Russia’s site-blocking demands and open up themselves up to scrutiny. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, telecoms watchdog Rozkomnadzor stepped up its campaign against search engines.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

We’re pleased to bring our readers a 2 part guest post series by Surabhi Pande and Devvrat Joshi, on the recently proposed draft amendments to the IT Rules, 2021 (which were released on 6th June, 2022). The Amendment to the IT Rules, 2021: Part 1 – Locked, Loaded, and Aimed at the Intermediaries. Surabhi Pande and Devvrat Joshi.

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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. You can find the full report here.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Included in a standard AUP are clauses specifying the purpose and scope of the policy, the user’s rights and responsibilities, acceptable uses, prohibited uses, and privacy standards. For example, creative teams and marketing teams may need greater access to certain social media websites to look for trends. Pornography.

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IPilogue

APRIL 4, 2022

This article was originally published online on 28 March 2022 on New Internationalist and will be included in their March-April 2022 publication. Her privacy has been repeatedly invaded by complete strangers since childhood. Privacy matters. Roxana Olivera is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Toronto.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

Creators, a term which I and many in the creator economy agree includes influencers, is a unique and distinct set of end users that generate content on platforms (or online service providers or social media platforms). In October 2022, the White House published its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 20, 2023

“[N]o legacy is so rich as honesty” 1 might fairly summarize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s theme to the advertising industry for 2023, as gleaned from the National Advertising Division (NAD) 2022 Annual Report. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make?

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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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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

People reported median losses of $7.7K – up from $5K in 2022. Social media scams. Scams starting on social media accounted for the highest total losses at $1.4 billion – an increase of 250 million from 2022.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background. Further Reading.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. Such class actions can be considered part of the evolution of the regulatory landscape dedicated to Generative AI. 4th 1149 (9th Cir. 3d 723, 743 (9th Cir. 2019); Worldwide Church of God vs Phila.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 19, 2022

2022 WL 141561, No. 14, 2022) Once in a blue moon, a false advertising-based antitrust claim survives a motion to dismiss in a circuit that imposes a list of excessive requirements on such claims. For example, it defeated Google+ in part because of privacy concerns, along with network effects. Facebook, Inc.,

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2024

Simply Life India (2023) (“Anil Kapoor”) (in paragraph 53), wherein the Court, had ruled in favour of safeguarding the distinct personality rights of celebrities, including the rights of endorsement and privacy, against widespread online exploitation and unauthorised commercial use. Further, the recent English case of Shazam Productions Ltd.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 14, 2022

On January 3, 2022, Holmes was convicted on one count of conspiracy to defraud investors and three counts of wire fraud. Employees were discouraged from communicating with each other about their work and were advised not to share the company’s name on social media platforms like LinkedIn.

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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. 2022 WL 1990225 (N.D. June 6, 2022).

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

that the DSA might be with us in 2022. Privacy concerns might, it was said, be a barrier to market for such traders and suppliers. Eleonora gave some helpful background to this forthcoming EU regulation, focussing on the 20 years-old E-commerce Directive. She expressed some optimism (that wasn’t necessarily shared!)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Note that Florida’s social media censorship law has relevance to the lost data question, because it says services must “allow a user who has been deplatformed to access or retrieve all of the user’s information, content, material, and data for at least 60 days.” 2022 WL 4372349 (N.D. Case citation : Shared.com v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

The IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics) Rules place responsibility on the Social Media Intermediaries to ensure that no prohibited content is allowed to be published or circulated on their platforms. 2] CS (COMM) 819 of 2022. [3] References: [link] [link] [link] [1] CS (O.S.) 893 of 2002 (Del) (India).

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2022

Also on the agenda was a policy statement proclaiming that ed tech is a priority area for agency Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) enforcement. Social media companies are warned to look closely at their platform disclosures and whether they are sufficient. Meeting adjourned.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Looking back over the past five years, it seems clear that the adoption and implementation of Article 17 has not led to more widespread use of automated content detection systems by social media platforms, and that while there continues to be anecdotal evidence of , it is not a very widespread problem. So was it worth it?

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

They further allege that data scraping violates user privacy and that the process of scraping taxes the site to the point of causing systemic effects. Proponents for scrapping point to the need for watchdog oversight of social media platforms and the public nature of the data. LinkedIn Corporation, 2022 WL 18399982 (N.D.Cal.,

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

In particular, defendants argued that because Belle Cosmetics made the information available to thousands of network salespeople on Facebook, “the world’s largest social media website,” that information was by definition non-confidential, and could not be a trade secret. 7, 2022) can be found here. Stay tuned.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 11, 2022

Consequently, the Supreme Court has confirmed the previous judgment by the Madrid Appellate Court, which was appealed by the sponsor of the festival, ordering it to pay compensation of 20,000 euros, and to partially publish the judgment in a media outlet in print and on two social media outlets.

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Intepat

MAY 16, 2023

A fraudulent lottery-winning message with Amitabh Bachchan’s voice from KBC was viral through various social media platforms and many people fell into this trap. This association of KBC with his name, voice, and image, in general, was the root cause of a recent scam. What are Publicity Rights?

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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. The Amended Complaint, filed on March 2, 2022, provides additional background and context for Hermès’ claims. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Bill McGeveran: interesting b/c privacy/data protection regimes are very different in the two regimes. Movies: want access to info they wouldn’t otherwise have.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2022

The complaint alleges that defendants marketed their products with a Made in the USA label and also featured images of their products with the label on the company’s website and on social media. ” They allegedly missed the mark there, however, and had to pay a $100,000 civil penalty as a result.

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