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

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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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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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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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The IPKat has received and is pleased to publish another guest contribution by Danish Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen , Hanne Kirk and Thit Nymand Nisbeth (all Gorrissen Federspiel) tackling influencer marketing from an IP perspective. This emerging breed is - very tellingly - called influencer marketing.

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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

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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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After thriving in what was once a localized traditional market, Japanese comics known as ‘manga’ took the world by storm. Publishers and authors could only watch as their work fueled a huge but unlicensed black market. com, Shueisha sought permission from a court to obtain information from U.S.

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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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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

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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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In particular, this may be the case where an online marketplace displays its own logo on the advertisements of third-party sellers and it carries out the storage and shipping of the third party goods in question. For example, how is the operator displaying its advertisements (e.g., storing and shipping their products)?

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The IPKat

APRIL 8, 2022

What they have in common is the direct undertaking of those acts, that is – in the words of the CJEU – a comportement actif , which consists of affixing the sign, advertising under it, etc.

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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

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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 19, 2024

Among them were uhuseries.com, owlserieshd.com, and ahaseries.com, relatively popular streaming platforms targeting the Thai market. Advertising Eyesore Assuming new pirate site owners aren’t concerned that a third party probably has root access to their server even after installation, it’s time to get the site ready for visitors.

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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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43(B)log

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ultra Bond alleged that Safelite violated the Lanham Act by falsely advertising that windshield cracks longer than six inches could not be safely repaired and instead required replacement of the entire windshield. Safelite is the VGRR market leader: in 2016, it had 35.4% of the market; its closest competitor had just 3%.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In particular, the Board of Appeal took the view that the sign would be understood by the relevant public as an advertising slogan and not as an indication of the origin of the goods. This information can be in some cases confusing or misleading.

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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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43(B)log

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It didn’t get a chance to decide the false advertising claims, which I think reflects courts’ relatively lax approach to TM compared to the rigors to which false advertising claims are subjected before reaching a jury; personally, I likely would have gone the other way. It was insufficient to provide: 1.

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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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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Elsewhere, the Center for Data Information examines how online advertising has helped grow the European economy, while the Center for Strategic & International Studies provides a critique of the EU’s Digital Markets Act and unintended economic consequences that may come from the EU’s passage of that bill.

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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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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 23, 2024

By focusing on perceived societal ills, at least in the first instance, regulators are able to step in and inform citizens what’s in everyone’s best interests moving forward. In 2019, advertising that promoted games with cash prizes was outlawed on TV, radio, in print, on social media, and all other internet platforms.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Earlier this month, the RIAA shared its recommendations for the USTR’s annual review of overseas notorious markets. On GitHub, Deezer explicitly advertises Spleeter’s music separation features, including the separation of vocals. The RIAA also carved out a brand new category this year, labeled AI Based Extractors/Mixers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The court summarizes the context: In many pixel cases, the plaintiffs sue the owner of the web property they interacted with, alleging that the owner installed source code that caused their personal information to be transmitted to a third party. Google (Catch Up Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They argued that the company made copies of their copyrighted works on its servers and deliberately marketed its service to pirate sites such as Thothub. A few days ago the models informed the court that all remaining claims against Cloudflare have been dropped, which means that the case is closed. Lawsuit Dismissed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is a case involving a trademark owner and a competitive keyword advertiser. That’s certainly true for high-profile and well-advertised consumer items like fast food chains, mass-market phones, and major car labels, but is it true in this particular niche? The informal battles total at least three times three.

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