TorrentFreak

JANUARY 8, 2025

The United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) published its annual Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets a few hours ago. “In the last message, we kindly asked for the information to be passed on to the person in charge, but they again have not responded to us,” Cuevana.biz writes.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 6, 2023

Over the last 18 months, various ideas and proposals have leaned toward limiting or even nullifying Western entertainment companies’ intellectual property rights in response to their withdrawal from the Russian market. There is a single economic goal here – to make money from advertising on the site.”

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

Sabotage of legitimate equipment and threats against engineers sent to repair it, allows illegal equipment operated by notorious criminal groups to take over local markets. Expansion beyond pirate TV into other commodity markets is common too.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 25, 2021

Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? An image of the comparative advertisement launched by Domex, wherein Domex explicitly asks which toilet cleaner fights bad smell for longer and makes a tick mark against Domex, with Harpic as another option next to it. Legal Position on Comparative Advertisement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Put much more bluntly, entertainment companies want to make sure that the people ‘stealing’ their content are kept safe and don’t have their private information unnecessarily exposed. As the current member list shows, cable marketing has considerable scope. or CTAM for short. ” Under the heading The Cable Industry v.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In summer 2020, AHBP began negotiating with the Lynd defendants for the exclusive license to market and sell a surface disinfectant/cleaner known as “Bioprotect 500” in Argentina. Lynd advertised the Product as effective against the coronavirus. the Lanham Act false advertising claim survived.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Mahindra, Tanishka Goswami analyzes the Court’s findings on the importance of house marks in infringement assessment, and the nature of the relevant market. Explaining the recent Delhi High Court decision in Gensol v. Tanishka is an advocate at the High Court of MP. Her previous posts can be found here. 3000 crores.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Advertised as a “top notch” service, in which Moy had invested considerable sums of money obtaining servers and streams, subscriptions were sold both in bulk to a network of resellers or on a singular basis direct to consumers.

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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 process began late 2023 with a soft market testing exercise followed by the publication of the listing above mid-April 2024.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

Reportedly issued by Globo’s Information Security department, new guidelines inform staff that digital piracy harms the show and as a result, harms the company. “Digital piracy causes several damages to the market and the entertainment industry is especially affected by it,” the translation reads.

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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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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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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Marketing, Sales Practices & Products Liab. SoClean is a dominant player in the market for medical devices that sanitize continuous positive airway pressure machines (CPAPs), which treat sleep apnea and respiratory conditions. And, they continued, SoClean was illegally marketing its devices. In re SoClean, Inc., 22-542 (W.D.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

For instance, Googles 2024 release of its Gemma 2 model is advertised as an open model , yet, it comes with an expansive Prohibited Use Policy which disallows use for several applications (e.g. Beyond that, there remains the question of what exactly constitutes sufficiently detailed information about the training data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Seamless offers a customer lead tool that displays the prospect’s personal information behind a subscription paywall with try-before-you-buy options. Plaintiff argues that CDA immunity does not apply, “because Seamless actively created the profiles and advertising webpages giving rise to this suit.” Section 230. Anti-SLAPP.

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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. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Was this commercial advertising or promotion? Elysium argued that Right of Assembly was “a marketing website for Tru Niagen for which ChromaDex pays commissions to Shelly Albaum for Tru Niagen customers referred through the website.” Thus, any false advertising claim would lie against Albaum, not [directly] against ChromaDex.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Based on these allegations, the court concluded Section 230 did not apply because “Plaintiffs’ claims challenge Facebook’s conduct as a co-developer of content and not merely as a publisher of information provided by another information content provider.” ” Uh oh.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

With more than a billion impressions per month and over 30,000 active advertisers, PropellerAds is a serious player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world and while many are legitimate companies, Hollywood believes there are some bad apples too.

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Olartemoure Blog

AUGUST 26, 2024

Greenwashing is a marketing strategy that deceives or misleads consumers about a company’s sustainable practices or the environmental benefits of a particular good or service. Misleading advertising: It conveys a message that does not correspond to reality and leads to consumer error, deception, or confusion.

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43(B)log

APRIL 26, 2023

The parties compete in the market for skid steer attachments and other products. Creager sells Montana post drivers (made in China) that compete with the Texas post drivers sold by IDT (advertised as made in the USA). The parties had other disputes, including accusing each other of posting false reviews of the other.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

Understanding the Compliance Trifecta: Amazon Guidelines, FDA Rules, and FTC Marketing Regulations Publishing in the health space doesnt just demand compelling contentit requires navigating a complex and overlapping web of rules. FTC marketing guidelines are available to help. Each has its own mandate.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

s advertisement for hats, copying Sarony’s Oscar Wilde No. The post How A Century-Old Insight of Photography Can Inform Legal Questions of AI-Generated Artwork (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Ehrich Bros.’s 2023, Generative AI Works Found Ineligible for Copyright Under the U.S.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 7, 2022

At the other end of the market, cutting costs to maximize slender advertising revenues appears to be more important than a glossy user experience. Seeking the court-ordered cooperation of Cloudflare, MPA/ACE requested information on a number of pirate streaming sites, including the personal details of their operators.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In April, instead of supplying the information ASSOprovider had requested, AGCOM fined the association for not providing information on the ISPs it represents, information ASSOprovider insisted was already in AGCOM’s possession.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 15, 2023

8, 2023) When does TM logic creep into false advertising cases? Faire sued, challenging Tundra’s unauthorized use of Faire’s users’ login credentials to gain access to Faire’s non-public information. Tundra allegedly uses the information it scrapes from Faire’s platform, including contact information, to market its product.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 22, 2023

This case involves two rival personal injury law firms in Arizona, one of which engaged in competitive keyword advertising against the other. The court says it needs more information to understand the call logs. Nor can it be said to show that Defendants’ marketing strategy made confusion likely. CV-21-01540-PHX-DGC (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2022

The precedent works were a mix of fact/information and creative expression, and they were unpublished. ” Market Effect. “there is no danger that the Dubtown Video will usurp the market for which Watch Tower intends its works. 2H 2019 and Q1 2020 Quick Links, Part 1 (Copyright, E-Commerce, Advertising).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

“Plaintiffs’ right of publicity claims seek to impose liability for Defendants’ use of their identities in creating advertisements on the Website.” “Plaintiffs’ right of publicity claims seek to impose liability for Defendants’ use of their identities in creating advertisements on the Website.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a competitive keyword advertising lawsuit. This is fine, but it deviates from courts’ efforts over the years to come up with multi-factor variations specific to keyword advertising. ” Marketing channel. Note: if it’s not obvious, “CE” is an abbreviation for “continuing education.”

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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

Several luxury brands, including Tom Ford, Chanel, and Dior, annually invest millions into developing and marketing their signature perfumes. Dupe perfumes are often marketed as affordable alternatives to their premium counterparts, offering similar fragrances without the hefty price tag. billion in 2025.

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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. Taylor v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

But its website markets ads, merchandise, and ad-free experiences to all comers. Sites that solicit information, purchases, and ad clicks from their viewers can more easily reach into a forum and cause injury there than can sites that do not. First, HuffPost displayed ads from Texas-based advertisers. He sued HuffPost in Texas.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

23, 2024) Plaintiffs alleged that defendants conspired to inflate the US News ranking of USC Rossier School of Education by submitting inaccurate or incomplete data to US News and market the resulting ranking to the public. As Plaintiffs note, if the law were otherwise, “any business that submits false information to get a certification.

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Olartemoure Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The breaches were related with the absence of informed consent for the processing of personal data collected on web pages, the absence of information regarding the processing of personal data, and the establishment of a default option to obtain the informed consent granted by the data subjects. Original source in Spanish.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therefore, Plaintiffs have pled that they informed Defendants of the infringing activity, and that Defendants continued to provide service to these accounts without further inquiry. Marketing fast Internet is evidence that the service is trying to profit from copyright infringement…? More confusing discussion about 1202, though.

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