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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Skillz sued its competitor Papaya, alleging false advertising under federal and state law. That is, false advertising was sufficiently pled as to statements that games on Skillzs platforms did not use bots, matched players evenly, and allowed users to withdraw funds at any time. Skillz Platform Inc. Papaya Gaming, Ltd.,

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 4, 2025

Here are 25 common ways to use one: Website Letterhead Business cards Note cards Refrigerator magnets Email signature Building sign or awning Lighting Stickers or temporary tattoos Trade show banners / displays Product placements in TV and film Opening scene of a video Social media profiles Domain name registrations App icon Shirts Coffee mugs Pens (..)

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 23, 2024

Rebecca Tushnet and I are pleased to announce the seventh edition of our casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials. We also have two online-only chapters on housing discrimination (Chapter 20) and political advertising (Chapter 21), both also freely downloadable. Price: $12 * Kindle.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

More news organizations sue OpenAI, Donna Summer estate sues Ye and advertisers create new system to block pirate sites. The post 3 Count: Piling On appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2025

The goal of the investigation is to establish whether Google has strategic market status in the search and search advertising markets that potentially harms consumers and competition. Pirates can still use search and Google advertisements to drive traffic and, without additional regulation, this is unlikely to change, they say.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With this Louis Vuitton seems to have struck a jackpot as it managed to restrain Haute24 from selling its products in a copyright dispute over its advertisement material. Due Protection to Advertisement Material The Court has rightly acknowledged the artistic merit of commissioned photos for promotional purposes. www.haute24.com

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fifteen years ago, courts generally avoided categorical pronouncements about the legitimacy of competitive keyword advertising. The message from the Second Circuit is plain: stop bringing competitive keyword advertising cases. This ruling doesn’t address the scenario where the advertiser’s ad copy references the trademark.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 12, 2021

3: Advertising Fuels $1.34 billion annually through advertising. billion annually through advertising. This advertising is coming from a wide variety of sources, including major brands and Fortune 500 companies, and that the larger pirate sites can receive tens of millions of dollars per year.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Running a small business involves making decisions about many costs that are not mandatory but that are very important to the business, such as rent, new equipment, software programs, advertising budgets, personnel, and many more.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised. Pirates Ideally, online services should be required by law to remove infringing content “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”, the sports companies argued. ” The sports leagues stressed that widespread piracy hurts their revenues. .

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In October 2024, both the US Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits issued published decisions that rejected trademark infringement claims based on advertising in keyword searches.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The IWL is a component of Operation Creative, a multi-agency initiative led by PIPCU at City of London Police, with support from partners across the creative and advertising industries. The IWL also offers a narrow window of transparency into an otherwise opaque operation.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“In addition, the act of infringing on content that creators have spent time, effort, and money to create and unfairly obtaining advertising revenue, is extremely malicious and should never be tolerated.” ” From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The commercials that they run the content of those commercials and advertisements is a copyrighted work protected by copyright. It can get complicated when there’s overlap if a business or a product has elements that are protected by each of these concepts of intellectual property.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

In addition to the copyright issues, which includes verbatim dialog included in the songs, Netflix alleges that the duo used Bridgerton trademarks improperly in advertising the show. According to Netflix, their agreement only extended to the audio album and that additional permission was required for anything beyond that.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Such a statement could not ring more true for the entertainment and advertising industries where weve seen an uptick in AI being leveraged nefariously by. On a daily basis, industries are grappling with how to adapt, and how to navigate this quickly evolving, largely unregulated space. By: International Lawyers Network

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Police monitoring of IPTV forums and various profiles used to advertise the availability of streams, played a part in identifying the suspects. Fake identities and false documents were used to register phones, obtain credit cards, subscribe to TV channels, and rent servers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

This case hit my alerts because of its discussion about keyword advertising, but first, I have to digest how the court got there. ” More Posts About Keyword Advertising * Internal Search Results Aren’t Trademark Infringing–PEM v. ” That prompted this litigation. ” UGH.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

Class 3: cosmetics and cleaning preparations Class 5: pharmaceutical products Class 9: electrical and scientific apparatus (includes both software (downloadable or physical software on a disc or drive) and hardware) Class 12: vehicles Class 14: jewelry Class 15: musical instruments Class 16: paper goods and printed matter (includes anything that’s (..)

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Impact Engine, the owner of several patents for internet advertising technology, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision that invalidated most of its patent claims as patent ineligible abstract ideas.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the United States, the formation of the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) in 2015 saw advertisers and advertising agencies come together to clean up the system and prevent ad revenue from reaching pirate sites. still aims to defund pirate sites and protect advertisers from undesirable associations.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 10, 2025

Rightsholder-led campaigns urged mainstream advertisers to boycott the platforms to cut off their revenue streams. As reported last week, elaborate and lucrative schemes are able to counter limitations on advertiser choice. Public pirate sites accessible by anyone with an internet browser have been under financial pressure for years.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 10, 2024

Pirate Site Promoter, Piracy Profiteer The opening salvo in the publishers’ lawsuit, which majors on violations of the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, and New York’s General Business Law, details Google’s ‘systemic and pervasive advertising’ of infringing copies of their textbooks and other educational works.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 12, 2024

Whether for social media advertisements, customer surveys, or email campaigns, a data licensing agreement is often at the center of arrangements concerning the use and transfer of consumer data. Join us for our September Advertising Law webinar program, which will examine the role of data licensing within the advertising industry.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board granted institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to delivery of targeted television advertisements. The board rejected patent owners argument that a lack of particularity as to the asserted grounds justified denial under 35 U.S.C.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The complaint alleges violations of the class members’ rights under the California Right of Publicity statute, which states that, “[a]ny person who knowingly uses another’s name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner … for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of … services, without such person’s prior consent (..)

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 8, 2025

These sites are often able, for at least a short time, to monetize using CPM based ad products [advertisers pay a fixed rate per thousand impressions] such as display / video / audio ads.” ” A Lucrative Scheme Moss goes into considerable detail on the various players involved and specifics relevant to the advertising market.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 24, 2025

Offense: The act of inciting by any means, including an advertisement, the use of an online public communication service, a device, or software, allowing access to a competition or sporting event without authorization. Penalties: Punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a 15,000 fine.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Phan Thanh Cong was the programmer and manager, who also took care of advertisers and through that, handled the money; he allegedly took 90% of the spoils, leaving just 10% for his partner. The indictment focuses on one type of revenue, from a single source.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The court says “Because Walmart does not pay search engines to return organic search results or index webpages, it does not “use” the marks in connection with the sale or advertisement of goods.” “Walmart contends that the purchase of these Google advertisements does not constitute a “use” of Plaintiff’s Marks. .”

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 26, 2024

Amazingly, they used photographs of two Defendants (who are working professionals who value their privacy) and used them in a series of advertisements in a local mall. Vondran Legal® News: We have recently filed suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against the South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation. By: Vondran Legal

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 30, 2023

Solo Stove isn’t really selling or advertising a fire pit in their commercials. What they’re advertising is something much more valuable: memories, family, good times, and the fun and peace of mind of hanging out at the fire pit. Their commercials do a great job of capturing this.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 16, 2024

The Court heard how 30-year-old Tuan began work on the sites back in 2019, aiming to distribute movies to the public, without permission from rightsholders, for the purpose of generating illegal profits from advertising. The men were also responsible for increasing user engagement to attract advertising revenue.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

2022-1194, 2022-1208, and 2022-1246 (December 7, 2023) , the Federal Circuit held that generic pharmaceutical companies may continue to use skinny labels to avoid infringement of method of treatment claims as long as they do not engage in advertising or promotional activities that encourage infringement of the patents. Lupin Ltd.,

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

1: Pizza Companies Sued for Copyright Infringement of Advertising Photo. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. First off today, Kendall Heebink at Law Street reports that a pair of pizza companies have been sued by Prepared Food Photos, Inc.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In addition to WWDC footage, the channel had archived advertisements, internal training videos and more. The channel was operated by Brendan Shanks, who had uploaded a series of WWDC videos going back to the early 2000s. However, the channel is gone after it was flooded with copyright notices filed by Apple.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 4, 2022

However, 18 months ago, the site removed all advertising and sought to keep itself afloat with donations. Finally today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that the popular anime pirate site AnimeKisa.tv has shut its doors, saying that the unwillingness of their audience to pay made the site untenable.

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