The TTABlog

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Applicant's first set of specimens comprised webpages displaying the mark and describing the software, but did not provide a way to download the software. In short, the webpages merely advertised the goods. The second set of webpages offered pricing information, but did not allow downloading of the software.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Advertising/E-Commerce. While such social media posts may not have the indicia of a traditional advertisement, there can belittle doubt that these paid posts are in fact advertisements… Today, consumers face waves of advertisements amid a sea of product choices. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Ariix, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2024

After remand, the case went back to the Ninth Circuit, which held that anti-threat classifications might be Lanham Act false advertising. Lanham Act Commercial Advertising or Promotion. The Lanham Act only applies to “commercial advertising or promotion.” The result is ugly. I really do hate this case.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2024

At $350 per unit, pricing is certainly steep when compared to other similarly-powered devices available on the market. Buyers simply need to follow a few basic instructions (those below come from a reseller’s advertising) and their device is instantly activated with almost all content imaginable. Next Day Delivery?

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Entertainment Software Association ( ESA ) has submitted its latest overview of “Notorious Markets” to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). These submissions serve as input for the USTR’s yearly overview of piracy ‘markets’ which helps to shape the Government’s global copyright enforcement agenda going forward.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 12, 2022

Having spent billions on development and marketing over decades, companies like Microsoft dominate important sections of the software market. What some don’t know is that through the actions of others, they may be paying to access unlicensed software that is no more legal than a download from The Pirate Bay.

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Olartemoure Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We touch on topics like its regulatory framework, clinical practice, marketing authorization, amending authorizations, recall, promotion, enforcement of advertising rules, pricing and reimbursement, off-label use and unlicensed products, sale and supply, and recent trends that have been noticed. Download it here!

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Perhaps unsurprisingly, millions of people decided to download or stream these illegal copies. However, when we analyzed a large sample (*) of the download numbers through BitTorrent, we noticed an interesting pattern. On that day, there were hundreds of thousands of downloads, which easily made Dune the most downloaded film that day.

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Olartemoure Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This growing trend reflects a broader effort to closely examine and mitigate the market power held by these corporate giants. Abuse of dominant position, in the context of antitrust and competition law, refers to the improper and anti-competitive practices undertaken by a company that holds a dominant market position.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? I guess RCN can better manage its copyright liability exposure by advertising that it provides shitty connections.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Notorious Markets. This is apparent from the latest overview of ‘notorious markets’ that was just submitted to the US Trade Representative ( USTR ). The notorious markets list is limited to non-US operations, so Cloudflare itself isn’t one of the MPA’s targets. Registries, Hosting, Ads, and Payments.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2024

In 2019, advertising that promoted games with cash prizes was outlawed on TV, radio, in print, on social media, and all other internet platforms. No downloads. Because, in a nutshell, Google’s advertising service can’t be considered passive. Safe and Secure.’

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

It allows users to stream live TV or download movies and TV shows for use offline. It’s currently available via free download and generates revenue from in-app advertising, some of it provided by Google according to a recent analysis. PikaShow Markets to the Masses. Good/Bad Results From TV Stunt.

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SpicyIP

MAY 18, 2022

A list of trademarks applied for in the EU for ‘ downloadable virtual goods’ and ‘online virtual services’ was recently published by The IPKat here. Image from here. World over companies are rushing to protect their trademarks in the online, virtual environment – the metaverse. Dec 21, 2021.

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The TTABlog

JULY 18, 2024

In a 95-page opinion, the Board sustained this opposition to registration of the mark INSTASIZE for "Downloadable mobile applications for photo editing," finding confusion likely with the registered mark INSTAGRAM for "Downloadable computer software for modifying the appearance and enabling transmission of photographs." based company."

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Clickable download links are displayed on the sites alongside copyrighted cover artwork displaying Nintendo trademarks. Nintendo informed the Court that the platforms are commercial in nature since they generate income from advertising via “click-through” arrangements with third parties.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 30, 2021

These overviews provide input for the USTR’s annual notorious markets overview, where sites such as The Pirate Bay, Fmovies and Uploaded have appeared as repeat offenders. Not everyone agrees that YouTube downloaders and domain registrars are piracy havens, and adding advertising companies is seen as a controversial step as well.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2024

million people (according to SimilarWeb) in ’23, was provisionally found to have earned about 340 million won [$35 million] in advertising revenue,” the statement notes, adding that the platform illegally shared almost 27,000 titles causing “significant damage” to the publishing industry. live / 1412.rest

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Z-Library was also mentioned in several recommendations to the US Trade Representative’s overview of notorious piracy markets. According to the Authors Guild , Z-Library has emerged as a vastly popular, high-volume source of illegal ebook downloads in recent years. TikTok Responds. TikTok is not happy with this characterization.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In common with submissions filed in previous years, the MPA mentioned many well-known consumer-facing platforms in the web, IPTV, torrent, and direct download categories. As a result, hosting providers, advertising services, and domain name registries considered especially problematic now receive prominent mentions.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 14, 2022

On the flip side, today’s interconnected world has the ability to transform leaks into powerful advertising and hype, keeping message boards and social media alive with discussion of exciting new products, at zero cost to official marketing teams.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

With a view to draining the resources of the blacklisted websites, advertisers and their agents must make public, at least once a year, under conditions to be specified by ARCOM, the existence of their relationships with the blacklisted sites. 2/ The Act creates new procedures to fight against mirror sites. by Christopher Heath. €

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 24, 2023

government, leading to the platform making annual appearances in the USTR’s ‘notorious markets’ list. One of the claimed benefits of Fmovies is that advertising is kept to a minimum. Indeed, in today’s ‘pirate market’, turning a profit is mostly seen as fundamental.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 20, 2022

However, some VPN providers have gone a step further by marketing their services directly to online pirates. The plaintiffs’ complaint argues that VeePN ‘promotes’ the use of pirate sites and Popcorn Time, while advertising its services on popular torrent site YTS.mx. Filmmakers sue VeePN.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 3, 2023

microG GitHub repo One of many projects that relied on microG was YouTube Vanced, an alternative YouTube app that removed all advertising and enabled background play, among other things. Due to legal issues, Vanced shut down in early 2022 but was soon replaced by ReVanced, a new project with similar functionality.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The following is an excerpt from Accessing and Analyzing Relevant Content in Today’s Information Chaos. As consumers, we experience personalization daily via targeted online advertising while browsing or in our social media accounts. Diabetes was accurately described for the first time in the 2nd century A.D. ;

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 19, 2022

Many tools are available, some free (open source or supported by advertising) and others where a small fee is required. “The chart below [truncated by TF to include all with more than 500,000 downloads] includes the most relevant player applications, as of the date of this contribution, which amounts to a total of eight-five (85).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 9, 2022

. “the underlying communication created by a third-party, a Match.com user, is truly ‘the specific harmful material at issue,’ not the automatically generated advertisement sent by Match.” ” The court rebuffed the FTC’s attempt to distinguish Dyroff. ’”. . ” The FTC cited Anthony v. Elliot v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It’s alleged that around August 2022, Taiga and the defendants made the Akebi GC code available for public download, including via Taiga’s GitHub and UnknownCheats repos. HoYoverse claims that Taiga also has a new cheat in production for a game it also owns, Honkai: Star Rail.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The company has sued individual downloaders , pirate sites , apps , VPN companies , advertisers, hosting providers and ISPs, even an Internet backbone access company. The group then followed up with similar complaints against Verizon and market leader Comcast. Voltage-Led Coalition Sues Major U.S.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2024

Caveats Create Niche Market FAST’s main quid pro quo is the installation of an official app through which viewing takes place. Designed to be used as live links rather than downloaded, these.m3u8 files are not only convenient and easy to use. They automatically update when providers change their stream URLs.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 29, 2021

advertised high-speed Internet access, combined with the inaction against online piracy, attracts potential copyright infringers to the ISP, the complaint alleges. subscribers used the popular torrent site YTS to download content. For one IP address, the rightsholders sent over 100 infringement notices, without any meaningful response.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Court then reasons that the fact that the Juventus former player had granted the creator of the NFTs the right to use his image did not exclude the need to seek authorization for the use of the trademarks that are displayed in that image, since the goods produced (the NFTs) are intended for sale on the market. The enforcement dilemma.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 7, 2024

More precisely, the application was only allowed for some (useless) goods and services, specifically: Class 9: Recorded and downloadable media, computer software, blank digital or analogue recording and storage media; LED [light-emitting diodes]; electronic publications. Class 20: Shells; yellow amber. An appeal appeared unavoidable.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 11, 2022

While most torrent site users have historically preferred the convenience a PC, the explosive growth in smartphone ownership since blocking began has seen millions of users flood to illegal streaming platforms and MP3 download sites instead. However, EE’s lack of public support raises other questions too.

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Kashishipr

JUNE 9, 2021

The Bombay High Court, in a decision not very long ago, held that the existing provisions on statutory licensing under the Copyright Act and Copyright Rules did not include internet broadcasting by means of internet streaming and/or downloading. Background. The Plaintiff, Tips Industries Ltd., Court’s Decision.

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