LexBlog IP

AUGUST 18, 2021

Review the contract. Review the contract/offer letter. text: ‘Advertisements’, }, creative: {. text: ‘Privacy’, }. }. }); }); Regardless of the reason, here are five “R”s to keep in mind. Reconcile and pay. Request return of property. Reiterate respectfulness. Reserve rights.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 28, 2021

data privacy : what businesses NEED TO know. Keeping pace with the state of data privacy and data privacy regulations is becoming a pressing responsibility for businesses in the digital age. Data privacy legislation is on the rise, with jurisdictions adopting stricter protective measures on a national and global front.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Defendants counterclaimed for payment and damages for breach of contract and bad faith.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Reputation Paradox : How can a movie star or a professional athlete, who had deliberately and energetically sought the limelight, complain of embarrassment and hurt feelings when an advertiser or merchandiser simply gave their face additional publicity?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

The plaintiff sued HDR for ECPA and common law privacy violations. Plaintiff had no authority over the Groups’ privacy settings and no voice in the screening process used to determine membership. While the court’s opinion is appropriately grounded in the precedent, it was tone-deaf to the privacy invasion. Implications.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In August, the Constitution and Human Rights Division of the High Court of Kenya issued a decision on the question of image rights and its relationship with privacy rights and data protection laws in Kenya. Background The Petitioner, Wanjiru was an alumna of the respondent, Machakos University. Paragraph 31].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

These reports allegedly caused advertisers to pause their Twitter advertising campaigns, starving Twitter of much-needed revenues. In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 10, 2024

.” The FTC alleged that the privacy policies did not inform consumers about how their location data would be used, which entities would receive the data and did not obtain informed consent to obtain access to sensitive location data. When you turn location services on, all of those apps are tracking your specific location.

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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. ” Oof. BrandTotal sought summary judgment that Section 3.2.3

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The arbitrator’s decision itself is filed under seal, but the court recaps the arbitrator’s findings: Although the contracts between Plaintiff and Amazon concerning the purchase of the diet pills at issue were illegal and unenforceable, the CoU that governed the transactions were severable and remained enforceable. Trilegiant.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

Walk away if they demand cash payments up front, or refuse to give you copies of their license, insurance, and a contract in writing. They’ll advertise rentals that don’t exist to get your money and run. Spot rental listing scams. Scammers know people need a place to live while they rebuild.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Amendment makes betting, wagering, and gambling, in whatever form or manner, with money, a crime, whether the contract involves a game of skill or chance. There are certain restrictions imposed regarding advertisement and promotion of harmful content, and a grievance redressal mechanism is also set up.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Another targets The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK nonprofit known for scraping the platform to quantify the proliferation of hate speech, for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, inducing breach of contract, and civil violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet. You can find the full report here.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 26, 2023

Electronic signatures are recognized as equivalent to handwritten signatures, and contracts remain valid and enforceable if made using electronic documents. Automated Electronic Transactions (AETs): AETs refer to contracts made between automated electronic media without direct human involvement. Federal Law No. Federal Law No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

“plaintiffs’ computer fraud and privacy claims are based on Apple’s reproduction of an app, Toast Plus, intended for public consumption, via the App Store. False Advertising. ” This is a highly defense-favorable reading of the contract provision. ” Publisher/Speaker Claims. ” Oops.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this fact does not turn a conduit website like GMB into a livery… GMB simply provided a platform for Petitioner Chaves (the livery) to perform the tasks of advertising his boat rental, negotiating a rate, renting his own vessel, and earning a rental fee. .'” Publisher/Speaker Claim. portion of the total rental fee.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. NetChoice LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Whereas this final page bolds certain important information about the trial membership, for instance, that prospective members can “Cancel anytime” and that they will be provided “1 month (and 45 credits) to book any classes [they] want,” no such bolding is applied to the text notice linking to the Terms and Privacy Policy. ” OK boomer.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This Act explains the significance of support when it comes to the enrollment of trademarks for the matter of Publicity or Privacy, and The Copyrights Act 1957 [iv] defines word “performer” as an actor, singer, musician, dancer, acrobat and juggler etc.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The law does not apply to contracts covering confidential and proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, or inventions assignment agreements. Contract lawyers know that to be enforceable a promise must be supported by consideration. One-size-fits-all contracts always need fine-tuning. Application. Consideration.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Since Roderique was unaware of the advertisement and was not doing work for The Bay, she tweeted the following: “ Hey @hudsonsbay, it would have been a good idea for you to get my permission to use my face and associated activism to solicit donations ‘to support employment and empowerment of IBPOC’, no? Roderique’s Response. The Legal Side.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

In addition to providing Chegg’s for-pay services online for free, Homeworkify has used and continues to use Chegg’s name in Google Advertising. Breach of Contract As is common with scraping cases in 2023, just because the scraper prevails on the CFAA claim doesn’t mean the scraper is going to prevail. The horror!

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Considering the above, the main basis for the processing by Meta of the referred data would be informed consent, granted through the acceptance of the service contract. information about user’s browsing habits through trackers, cookies or plug-ins on third-party websites or platforms belonging to Meta). Our Experts Martha P.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Shared sued Facebook for: Shared avers that Meta committed conversion (Claim 1), breach of contract (Claim 3), and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (Claim 4) in suspending access to Shared’s Facebook pages, contrary to the Facebook Terms of Service. & Prof. Section 230.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Previously, the court denied Robinhood’s motion to dismiss claims for negligence and violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the constitutional right to privacy, and the unlawful and unfair prongs of the Unfair Competition Law (UCL). Was it plausible that plaintiffs relied on the Financial Privacy Notice?

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Serious Comparative Advertising: Broadening the Definition. In this guest post , Sangita Sharma analyses the law around comparative advertisements in India. She contends that the ‘fair’ and ‘honest’ use thresholds under Section 30(1)(a) and (b) of the Trade Marks Act should come to the rescue of such advertisements. Other Posts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Even if Google’s conduct could be interpreted as a technical violation of many websites’ notoriously overbroad terms of service, their conduct doesn’t meet the criteria for most online breach of contract disputes. Trademark, copyright, trespass to chattels, the law of online contracts—none of this stuff is novel.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2024

This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. The account formation process included a screen where a user could proceed only by clicking on the “play” button: Warner Bros. sought to send the case to arbitration. The district court disagreed. Warner Bros.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I’m a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, located in California’s Silicon Valley, where I hold the titles of Associate Dean for Research, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute, and Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate. I started practicing Internet Law in 1994 and first started teaching Internet Law in 1996.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data. If a company conducts business internationally, it may have to adhere to the privacy laws of foreign countries.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 8, 2022

The Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “Act”) if signed, would amend the New York Labor Law to establish rights for covered freelance workers such as the rights to receive a written contract, receive timely and full payment, and freedom from retaliation. text: ‘Advertisements’, }, creative: {. reportAd: {.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 19, 2022

The company bases its entire business model on the purchase of such a database and earns money from advertising, royalties, or client payments. Every Indian citizen has the fundamental right to liberty and the right to privacy thanks to the protections provided by Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. Picture Credit: Shutterstock].

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43(B)log

JUNE 6, 2023

Enigma sued its competitor Malwarebytes for Lanham Act false advertising and NY business torts for designating its products as “malicious,” “threats,” and “potentially unwanted programs” (PUPs). Enigma alleged that its software products “(i) detect and remove malicious software (i.e.,

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