The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2024

People, Plants, and the Law lecture series This online lecture series returns for another year to explore the special role of the law in shaping how people engage with plants, whether in farmers’ fields, scientific laboratories, international markets, or elsewhere. Registration will open in January.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2023

Privacy: AI can allow individuals to be identified and personal information about them to be used in ways beyond what the public wants. Open-Source: Requiring code to be openly available may promote transparency and innovation; allowing it to be proprietary may concentrate market power but allow more dependable regulation of harms.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The incorporation of drones in logistics, security, exploration, agriculture, and transport has led to a projected growth of the drone market to $129.2 billion by 2025. Mobile apps might be an easy way for the public to determine the operators of any aerial activity in an instant.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

These trends are expected to continue though challenges remain, such as the balance between the need for health-related data to train AI models and privacy and ethical concerns in using such data. *. By 2025, it is estimated that chronic diseases may affect 164 million Americans – nearly half (49%) of the U.S. population.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

The Vallance Report recommends that the Government consider the use of privacy enhancing technologies or data intermediaries to provide efficient, lower risk options for data exchange.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

March 10, 2025) Curiosity Stream is a paywalled site for documentary videos. It says “By subscribing to Curiosity Stream, you agree that you’ve read our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.” Privacy policies are legally binding documents, either as marketing representations or bilateral contracts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Screens 1, 2, and 3 present the Terms of Use by hyperlink within a short one- or two-sentence advisory paragraph written in a small gray font against a white background, with Terms of Use and Privacy Policy written in blue. The call-to-action says I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and the action button says Redeem now.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2024

Guardian : Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification due to privacy and security concerns US * California AB-1394 : Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions: (g) (1) A social media platform shall not knowingly facilitate, aid, or abet commercial sexual exploitation. (2)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

Relevant Federal Law: Balancing User Privacy with Child Protection In the 1980s, Congress passed a law called the Stored Communications Act (SCA) that created a statutory right of privacy for Americans digital files and communications. Lawshe sued Verizon and Synchronoss for defaming him and violating his privacy rights under the SCA.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The plaintiffs allege that Confirm ID violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In other words… plaintiffs are once again arguing that deploying biometric-based age authentication violates privacy law. (I If they comply with those laws, will they get hammered for privacy violations? Confirm ID, Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

Finally, the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy appeared in the same gray font as the rest of the sentence, rather than in blue, the color typically used to signify the presence of a hyperlink. Again, the links to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are located at the bottom of the page. 2025 WL 948118 (N.D. 2025 WL 985130 (N.D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2025

A vague “privacy” law restricting the publication of truthful speech enables plaintiffs to impose significant defense costs on publishers, which chills constitutionally protected speech and enables strategic litigation misbehavior. The Daily Kos , 2025 WL 855280 (Nev. Case Citation : Watts v. –Watts v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The court says that “protecting the privacy and well-being of minors” should be a compelling state interest. The court continues: Record evidence describes the difficulties of age estimation, and the threats to users privacy inherent in age estimation. However, the means-ends analysis will fail.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

have created a niche market in the gaming Industry, introducing special products for gaming. billion and is projected to reach USD 5 billion in 2025, according to a 2021 BCG report. Additionally, users need to be aware of what’s happening, and need data privacy standards that adequately protect them.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

As we enter a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to pass on our best wishes for 2025 to all of our readers, as well as reflect on developments in copyright over the past year. This initiative resulted in some pending privacy disputes, which polarized the debate.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Indeed, there are broader debates on regulating AI training data involving privacy and data protection , biases in data which can potentially give rise to discrimination/discriminatory outcomes, the working conditions of the human input needed to train AI and the environmental costs of AI in terms of energy and other natural resources.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Wishing everyone a prosperous and a healthy new year ahead and hoping that 2025 brings in spicier IP developments to the Indian IP regime, making it a more fair, balanced and effective one! Happy 2025! A) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Topicality/Impact) 1. Novex Communications Pvt Ltd v. And with that we end our round-up for this year!

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Copyright Kat Friend Vanessa van Coppenhagen (Spoor & Fisher) explored the legal implications of using urban buildings in videos, especially with the rise of CGI and VFX in marketing. Oliver Fairhurst covers the Jukic v BBC (2025) case, where a LiP claimed her TV show treatment was copied for Glow Up.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

S. __ (2025). Some of the tricks those legislatures can try: set a short timeline on constitutional challenges, target the ownership of media enterprises for censorship rather than enacting censorship outright, and pretextually justify the law as advancing “privacy” or speculative “national security” interests.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Starting January 1, 2025, the law applies when the services have “actual knowledge” that users are minors. Fourth, will this kind of data mining be legal in light of the existing and emerging privacy laws? Bonta appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. See, e.g., Kuklinski v. 31, 2024) and NetChoice v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Meanwhile, Twitter’s marketplace decline has demonstrated (once again) that market mechanisms–including users and advertisers voting with their “feet”–still carry a potent sting online. As a result, Section 230 is on the extinction watch list in 2025. I will be shocked if it survives to see 2026.

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