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it is unfair to fail to disclose paid promotion/for influencers not to do due diligence on what they promote

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I’ll focus, as usual, on the false advertising bits and ignore the securities law parts. The FAL explicitly provides that plaintiffs can recover for advertisements that were “known, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading.” This was, they alleged, a pump and dump scheme.

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Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for ‘Intermediary’ Action

TorrentFreak

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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DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? Enforcement Groups Weigh Options

TorrentFreak

Internet service providers, websites, search engines, hosting providers, domain companies, social media services, and advertising companies are all considered part of the problem.

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Delhi High Court Rulings on Celebrity Rights Galore: Examining the Rajat Sharma and Mohan Babu Orders

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They contended that the defendants are perpetuating gross misinformation by running fraudulent medicinal drug advertisement campaigns through wrongful use of Artificial Intelligence and are creating deepfakes by distorting images, voice, and other personality traits of Rajat Sharma.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (October 9- October 15)

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The court held that the defendant’s advertising falls under the ambit of permissible comparative advertising, rejecting the plaintiff’s claims and emphasized on a competitor’s right to prevent disparagement while allowing reasonable product promotion. POI Social Media Pvt. vs Vijay Munjal And Anr.

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Second Circuit signals some minimal flexibility on Polaroid analysis in another strip club false endorsement case

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May 19, 2023) Whereas the timeshare false advertising cases might be making law largely applicable to other timeshare cases, what’s going on in the strip club advertising cases might have somewhat broader implications. Several had appeared in magazines, advertising campaigns, television episodes, and films. Exotic Island Enters.,

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Takedown Services Under Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

The safe harbour exemption clause was added to Section 79 of the Information Technology Act of 2000, which protected an intermediary from liability for third-party content on its platform if it completed “due diligence” as specified by the Central Government.