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Tacos with a Side of Cease and Desist

IPilogue

Controversy ensued when a Mexican food restaurant in the UK, Taquería, issued a cease and desist letter to a similar restaurant, Sonora Taquería, for infringement of their registered mark “Taqueria.” ” Yet taquería is Spanish for a place where tacos are sold.

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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

We say goodbye to 2021 with the most interesting posts and articles from the surrounding IP blogs of the past week! Creator Mason Rothschild revealed in an open letter to Hermès, which he posted on his Instagram account on December 22, that he received a cease-and-desist letter from the French luxury goods brand.

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Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content

Erik K Pelton

Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. When you hire someone to write or post or do social media for you, or create most types of content, it is generally a work for hire type of agreement.

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Trademark Enforcement Strategies – The Ultimate Path to Protection

Kashishipr

To safeguard your trademarks adequately, you should track new trademark filings, online use, social media usage of marks, and domain names, which shall alert you to potential conflicts. The same includes e-commerce marketplaces, standalone business websites, and social media channels. Bottom Line. For more visit: [link].

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Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.