Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Advertising/E-Commerce. 22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. To navigate the seemingly unending stream of advertisements, consumers often depend on independent reviews for candid and accurate assessments. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp.,

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

The ad, which was produced by the London-based advertising agency M&C Saatchi, featured prominent Hong Kong actor and musician Andy Lau Tak-wah as he delivered a monologue about Xiaoman, the eighth solar term and second solar term of summer on the traditional Chinese calendar. Now, virtually every creator is dabbling in various media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

creators whose creative works were featured in Facebook advertisements without permission. Much of the language was written well before widespread adoption of social media, and much of that language was vague even then. The lawsuit is proposed as a class action, including all U.S. They estimate that class to be in the thousands.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

Negative exposure in the media has direct implications for image and branding. Additional risk of polluting or even displacing otherwise positive articles, could jeopardize what amounts to free advertising worth millions of dollars.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Earlier this month, the Fifth Board of Appeal (BoA) of the EUIPO refused the registration of CHOPIN for several goods in Classes 29, 30, and 32 of the Nice Classification due to the risk of free-riding on the reputation of the earlier trade mark CHOPIN under Article 8(5) EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated As they realize the bill’s implications, I’m hoping Minnesota parents will tell their Senators to scrap this effort. What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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IPilogue

MARCH 13, 2023

This article was written as a requirement for Prof. One of the most effective ways to influence consumer behaviour online is through targeted advertising. Value for Advertisers Access to personal information has become necessary for advertisers to convert potential leads into customers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Through a variety of domain names, the site offers over 11 million books and 84 million articles. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included. This has attracted a steady userbase and many millions of monthly visitors. TikTok Responds.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright. Make intangible assets.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When that article was tweeted, it displayed a thumbnail image showing side-by-side the 50 Cent photo and a photo showing a penile enhancement procedure with the goodies hidden by an eggplant emoji. Kogan also created and posted a video discussing (and showing) the article, including more innuendo that 50 Cent got the procedure.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2024

Those who follow mainstream tabloid media in the UK and Ireland should be familiar with online streaming piracy by now; whether they like it or not. The harms and threats of illicit streaming devices or using the preferred term in Ireland, dodgy boxes , have been discussed at length in hundreds of news articles.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Washington’s Fair Campaign Practices Act “requires Meta to maintain certain records of the political advertisements it hosts on its platforms and, when requested, to permit inspection of, or to disclose, such records to those seeking such information.” The state can extract this information from political advertisers.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

This dispute has made its way to mainstream news both online and TV and has also sparked debates on social media. Social media debates are also unhelpful. Some reports ( here and here ) suggest that the dispute may be related to false or misleading advertising. But what exactly is this dispute about?

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Recently, Delhi High Court granted an interim injunction to Zydus against social media influencer Prashant Desai’s allegedly disparaging post on nutritional health drinks. 29(8) is meant for “infringement by advertising of the mark ”, and the ASCI guidelines too, as the title indicates, are influencer “advertising”.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

On August 23, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced it will continue to seek additional public comment on how children are increasingly being affected by digital advertising and marketing messages “that may blur the line between ads and entertainment.” And that question is even more acute when it comes to children.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 2, 2022

This week in Washington IP news, Senate committees are planning to host hearings on the applications that artificial intelligence can have in cyberspace, both for good and bad actors, as well as legislative proposals that could force social media platforms to increase transparency regarding algorithms for targeted advertising and news feeds.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

As reported in our previous article published in 2019, the Committees of Advertising Practice ( CAP ) have been focussing for some time on protecting children and young persons through their regulation of gambling advertising. The Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ) is responsible for enforcement of the advertising codes.

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43(B)log

APRIL 18, 2023

12, 2023) Following a large verdict for Monster on false advertising claims, this opinion discusses extensively the requirements for injunctive relief in false advertising cases. The jury awarded $271,924,174 for damages sustained by Defendants’ false advertising and found that the false advertising was willful and deliberate. “As

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In Twitter’s case, the company took the position that certain links posted by users – namely links to rival services – create unfair competition since Twitter is competing with services such as Instagram for the same user base and the same advertisers. paid advertising). negotiated or arbitrated licence).

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

I’m only going to discuss the false advertising aspects. When one employee shared an article about the Indiana state court litigation, Wishbone’s COO/Secretray/Treasurer commented on the post “suggesting that OrthoPediatrics was following former employees in an effort to ruin their lives.” The answer depends on industry practice.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It has opened wide range of facilities for us like entertainment, education, advertisements, communication etc. Such work may include any literary or artistic work such as books, articles, films, databases, computer programs etc. Introduction Technology is no more separated and has become the integral part of our lives.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

As another example, when the search results provide the records associated with Mr. Abraham, “adjacent to the list of records containing [his] name, photograph, and likeness” is an advertisement promoting the subscription membership. Section 230. ” (Tautology alert). FWIW, I raised this issue as a possible paper topic in 2008.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Given that the artists refused to take action and continued to benefit from the social media posts, Vogue requested and was granted immediate injunctive relief to prevent Drake and 21 Savage from using fake covers to promote their album.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Many of these promise free music, MP3 download functionality, and the option to download videos and music from social media sites. ‘Video & Music Downloader’ doesn’t explicitly advertise itself as a tool to convert music videos into MP3s, but many people may use it for that reason.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Was this commercial advertising or promotion? Elysium argued that the website as a whole was a referral website for Tru Niagen, which advertised Tru Niagen at the top of every page. Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex. You can find out more here: [link].

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 6, 2022

As reported in our previous article published in 2019, the Committees of Advertising Practice ( CAP ) have been focussing for some time on protecting children and young persons through their regulation of gambling advertising. The Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ) is responsible for enforcement of the advertising codes.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 4, 2022

The other day, we noticed an article announcing that legendary direct marketer Joe Sugarman had passed away. ” And the infomercials and other advertising were quite entertaining. ” And the infomercials and other advertising were quite entertaining. ” Indeed, “our entire staff wears them now.”

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The full list, available at the bottom of this article, also includes less obvious targets, such as the messaging app Telegram, Russian social media network VK, and various domain name registries. Those have been called out previously, though, so that’s no surprise either. ag – Seasonvar[.]ru ai – Goojara[.]to/levidia.ch/Supernova[.]to

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. 1, 2017 to Apr. But there were four alleged false markings within the five-year limitations period.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

We say goodbye to 2021 with the most interesting posts and articles from the surrounding IP blogs of the past week! The well-known company was sued in a California federal court last year for using photos Schroeder took of Sumida posing next to a Volvo S60 as part of a "global advertising campaign" on Instagram without her permission.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Safe harbour & DSM Directive Issue : The safe harbour provision (Article 14 E-Commerce Directive), as we know, provides intermediary service providers with protection from liability, on condition that the provider does not have actual knowledge of illegal activity. Slowly eats popcorn in gripped anticipation.!

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Under handles including “Omi in a Hellcat” and “Targetin1080p” Carrasquillo publicized almost everything he did on social media, from selling pirate subscriptions and devices, to banking the mountains of cash he undoubtedly made from the service.

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Michael Geist

JULY 18, 2023

Compromise amendments were ignored in favour of tough talk about not backing down, the platforms were investigated for daring to test link blocking, and MPs and Senators acted as stenographers for media lobby groups by introducing amendments that now leave the government with even less flexibility in the regulatory process.

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The IPKat

JULY 12, 2024

Brat green: from the streets of NYC to the domination of social media and then to the catwalks (?) slime green (now ‘brat green’) in various means of advertising throughout the promotional campaign. slime green (now ‘brat green’) in various means of advertising throughout the promotional campaign.

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