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Trademarks: An Emerging Social Media and Influencer Phenomenon

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Across-the-board social media and influencer marketing integration are aspects of the present-day artificiality regarding persuasive brand dissemination in faces and identities. Trademarks Scars on Social Media It defies law in this modern digital age. It has also brought a lot of challenges.

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False patent marking claims survive even when Dastar bars false advertising claims based on "innovation"

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2024 WL 629985, No. 30, 2024) (R&R) Recommendation: Dastar should block Qingdao’s Lanham Act false advertising counterclaims based on Lashify’s claim to be the originator of lash technology, but false patent marking counterclaims should survive. Lashify, Inc. Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co., 1, 2017 to Apr.

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Another API (c) case with false advertising and contract claims too

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GSP Golf AB, 2024 WL 4276497, No. 24, 2024) Trackman makes the golf simulator game Perfect Golf, which offers users the ability to virtually play some of the most famous golf courses in the world. Although the court dismissed a contract claim, copyright and false advertising claims survived. Trackman, Inc.

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Trademark law and LinkedIn resumes: watch out?

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Venkateswaran, 2024 WL 3487735, No. Portkey sued for unfair competition/reverse passing off, false advertising, and trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, as well as related state-law claims. Portkey Tech. 23-CV-5074 (JPO) (S.D.N.Y. This is a joke, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.)

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YouTube Isn’t Liable for User Uploads of Animal Abuse Videos–Lady Freethinker v. YouTube

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I’m ignoring the complicating effects of various social media censorship laws that may require Internet services to enforce their TOSes as written, a requirement I think is unconstitutional). Google LLC , 2024 WL 2809371 (Cal. It was an easy dismissal in Noah, and it remains an easy dismissal now. (I’m

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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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2024 WL 1285631, C.A. 26, 2024) Defendant, d/b/a Wonderland, operated an adult entertainment club and was one of the many such sued by various models for using their images in advertising without their consent from 2015 to 2019. Princeton Excess & Surplus Lines Ins. Cranston Entertainment Inc.; 21-63-JJM-PAS (D.R.I.

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US News rating was mere opinion except as to school that intentionally submitted bad information to it

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2024 WL 751006, No. 23, 2024) Plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to inflate the US News ranking of USC Rossier School of Education by submitting inaccurate or incomplete data to US News and market the resulting ranking to the public. of Southern Cal., CV 23-3389-GW-MARx (C.D.