TorrentFreak

MAY 7, 2024

From the couple allegedly having their phones tapped, and movements monitored as they traveled through Argentina, to an official inquiry into their alleged domestic air travel arrangements and the unexplained disappearance of news articles reporting on the case, controversy is rarely far behind.

Social Media 120

Social Media Reporting Blogging Government 120

Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 5, 2024

The social media phenomenon Zillow Gone Wild is facing a lawsuit from a real estate photographer. Here's what is at stake. The post Zillow Gone Wild Sued by Real Estate Photographer appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

Social Media 264

Social Media Plagiarism Art Copyright 264

IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Ziff Davis, 18-CV-790 (KMW), that refused to dismiss claims against a media company for embedding an Instagram post into one of its articles online. A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. Amazon.com, Inc.,

Social Media 120

Social Media Copyright Copyright Infringement Copying 120

The IPKat

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Last week, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) released an intriguing report measuring and analyzing (apparently for the first time) the influence that social media influencers exert on consumers also when it comes to purchasing counterfeits.

Social Media 119

Social Media Reporting Advertising Advertising 119

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

The court is way off-base here for reasons I explain in this article. ” BBC : Facebook’s growth not linked to psychological harm, study finds * Science : How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? No, and it’s not even close. Six4Three v. . * Kallinen v.

Social Media 96

Social Media Advertising Advertising Publishing 96

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. .’ The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

Fair Use 133

Fair Use Social Media Copyright Copyright Infringement 133

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

Social Media 116

Social Media Law Blogging Publishing 116

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Paxton, the Challenge to Texas’ Social Media Censorship Law appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Life is too short to spend precious time reading the report, though I did find the plaintiffs’ motion to strike interesting. Declaration from Stop Child Predators. Declaration from Technology Network.

Social Media 130

Social Media Law Television Reporting 130

Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show any concrete harm caused by OpenAI’s alleged removal of copyright management information from their articles, which they claim were then used to train ChatGPT’s language model. TransUnion v.

Copyright 125

Copyright Reporting Copyright Infringement Social Media 125

Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

Class 3: cosmetics and cleaning preparations Class 5: pharmaceutical products Class 9: electrical and scientific apparatus (includes both software (downloadable or physical software on a disc or drive) and hardware) Class 12: vehicles Class 14: jewelry Class 15: musical instruments Class 16: paper goods and printed matter (includes anything that’s (..)

Social Media 130

Social Media Editing Music Advertising 130

Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Right of Publicity Resources: The right of publicity is generally defined as an individual’s right to control and profit from the commercial use of his/her name, likeness and persona, which shall be referred to in this article as the “individual’s identity” Right of publicity for social media influencers.

Social Media 98

Social Media Copyright Infringement Copyright Law 98

The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ever since the massive explosion of content creation that gave rise to social media, content creators worldwide have utilized embedding to showcase and link users to content that otherwise would not have been as readily accessible. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v. Amazon.com, Inc.,

Social Media 98

Social Media Copyright Copying Copyright Infringement 98

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Following Elon Musk’s bold rebrand of social media platform Twitter, the many lawsuits that have been expected have begun to roll in. In what is said to be the first, X Social Media, LLC has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, charging Musk’s X Corp.

Social Media 80

Social Media Trademark Service Mark Law 80

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about social media before making the jump. The basic idea behind Mastodon is to create a decentralized social networking platform that no one entity control. Also, please note that I am not a lawyer and nothing in this article should be taken as legal advice.

Copyright 306

Copyright Social Media Designs Design 306

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 22, 2025

The mere suggestion that social media operators in the United States could face arrest overseas, for the alleged misconduct of a minority of users among more than a billion, would not be well received. The body of the article clarifies that the channel was blocked and no longer appears in Telegram’s search results.

Copyright Infringement 122

Copyright Infringement Copyright Reporting Social Media 122

Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Here, text articles on one site became a script from which an audio podcast was created. Here, a 2003 article was copied and pasted from to make a script for a review of the movie 28 Days Later. Now, virtually every creator is dabbling in various media. But while technology may struggle, people don’t.

Plagiarism 298

Plagiarism Copying Social Media Technology 298

Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

The Directive’s most controversial provision – Article 17 – which brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets and millions of voices online to warn of the potential of upload filters to kill the Internet, seems to have faded almost completely from public view. So was it worth it?

Social Media 84

Social Media Reporting Copyright Editing 84

TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised. Pirates Ideally, online services should be required by law to remove infringing content “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”, the sports companies argued. ” The sports leagues stressed that widespread piracy hurts their revenues. .

Social Media 109

Social Media Advertising Advertising Government 109

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The lawsuit was filed by the estate of Ehud Yonay, an Israeli author who, in 1983, penned an article entitled Top Guns , about the now-famous pilot program. According to the plaintiffs, Paramount optioned the article for the first film but failed to option it for the sequel, despite the rights reverting back to the estate in January 2020.

Social Media 246

Social Media Journalism Plagiarism Licensing 246

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Instead, XXL relied on a fair use defense, which works: Nature of use: “the video was the subject of the news story and because the article added new information and context about the contents of the video.” Lynk Media LLC v. 14, 2025) Fedun posted three videos to social media and then assigned the copyrights to Lynk Media.

Copyright 96

Copyright Social Media Licensing Fair Use 96

Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Influencer Marketing” and “Social Media Brand Endorsement” have become big business. Our law firm represents some of the business’s largest social media marketing agencies and influencers. This means they also own and need to license the copyright to the brand. This happens all the time.

Social Media 52

Social Media Branding Brands Branding 52

Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

Much of the language was written well before widespread adoption of social media, and much of that language was vague even then. However, it arrives at a very significant intersection, one that includes the largest social media platform in the world and an ongoing push for DMCA reform.

Social Media 246

Social Media Copyright Infringement Copyright Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This month, Newton is at it again and recently published an updated article that looks at the latest quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report. I’ve sat down twice to write an article about this specific issue. However, both times I postponed the article after Facebook said that they were working to address the issue.

Plagiarism 279

Plagiarism Social Media Journalism Copying 279

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated As they realize the bill’s implications, I’m hoping Minnesota parents will tell their Senators to scrap this effort. What The Bill Says. generated content.”

Social Media 145

Social Media Privacy Law Government 145

Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

On the same day last week, federal judges in the Southern District of New York issued a pair of decisions that highlight the persistent legal uncertainty publishers and websites in the Second Circuit face when embedding content from social media platforms. Townsquare Media, Inc. Townsquare Media, Inc. In Richardson v.

Copyright 68

Copyright Social Media Fair Use Publishing 68

Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017.

Social Media 246

Social Media Settlement Fair Use Reporting 246

JD Supra Law

AUGUST 21, 2024

Employees copy and paste photos from the internet or embed social media posts to the company’s website or into a press release or news article. In the Internet era, every firm has a risk of copyright infringement. Images stored on the company server are renamed, and the scope of rights are no longer ascertainable.

Copyright Infringement 117

Copyright Infringement Social Media Copyright Copying 117

Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

However, when a programmer plagiarizes in a white paper or a lawyer in an article, the pitchforks come out anew. The reason for this is simple: Plagiarism is governed by social norms. In April 2021, researcher Jess L Gregory published an article entitled “ Plagiarism as a Social Contract, a New Way to Approach Plagiarism ”.

Plagiarism 279

Plagiarism Social Media Contracts Copying 279

Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What has changed is the internet and the rise of social media. The Role of Social Media. However, with the rise of social media, love letters are very public things. For most of our history, love letters and words of affection were private matters, usually only heard or read by the parties involved.

Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Social Media Copying 246

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The photograph was later licensed to the New York Post and appeared in an article, with appropriate attribution to Sadowski. Fortner Services, a pest control company based in Bedford, Indiana , operates a website and maintains a presence on social media.

Copyright Infringement 52

Copyright Infringement Social Media Copyright Intellectual Property 52

TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

Negative exposure in the media has direct implications for image and branding. Additional risk of polluting or even displacing otherwise positive articles, could jeopardize what amounts to free advertising worth millions of dollars. Even for Nintendo, suing every infringer isn’t just impractical.

Social Media 103

Social Media Litigation Copyright Copyright Infringement 103

Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

However, the key one for this article deals with the copyright registration FDN obtained over the work. In short, this means that, if you post your work to a web page with social media buttons, an open license or even just tools to aid in printing or emailing, the work is likely considered to be published.

Publishing 279

Publishing Registration Social Media Copyright 279

Michael Geist

APRIL 7, 2022

Yet the bill requires an even deeper look since it goes far beyond “compensating journalists when they use their content” (as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday in the House of Commons ) or even linking to news articles. Millions of Canadians choose to access media through search and social media.

Social Media 145

Social Media Government Designs Design 145

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Among other problems, the law dictates how “social media platforms” can make their editorial decisions. Fortunately, a Florida federal judge blocked Florida’s social media censorship law as unconstitutional. This is not unique to social media.

Government 130

Government Social Media Blogging Publishing 130

Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more.

Plagiarism 321

Plagiarism Art Copying Privacy 321

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Content on TikTok and other social media platforms is theoretically copyrightable. In practice, however, the IP rights of social media creators today are less clear. They are also discovering that not all creators are created equal, even when they are the source.

Social Media 119

Social Media Copyright IP Business 119

Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” However, those on social media, in particular Croatians, were not so quick to dismiss the issue. Instead, he said he was withdrawing due to, “Unpleasant atmosphere in media and social media, as well as pressures I have been exposed regarding my design of the back of the pine marten coin.”

Social Media 246

Social Media Plagiarism Due Diligence Designs 246