Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure. A few plaintiffs have won default judgments (including one I blog below). Some other 512(f) cases I’ve not previously blogged: * Paul Rudolph Foundation v. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The museum industry, it would seem, is taking note of technology’s growing role in its operations, particularly in regards to visitor engagement and staying relevant in a social media-driven society where declining visitation rates have only been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

In addition to alleging trademark infringement due to Rothschild’s use of BIRKIN in METABIRKINS as the name for his NFT collection, Hermès complained that Rothschild infringed by using METABIRKINS as a domain name, as a handle on Twitter and other social media platforms, as a brand name on NFT sales platforms, and as a hashtag.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While creative industries claim their work has been not only stolen but specifically used to replace them, AI providers continue, remarkably, to insist that the millions of images ‘fed’ to the AI can be used without permission as part of the ”social contract” of the Internet. You can find the full report here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Other TDM projects have examined social media and other online sources to track and explain COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy, and to identify High-Risk COVID-19 patients. For example, Shasha Teng et al analyzed a dataset of 43,203 YouTube comments to scrutinize the correlations between vaccine hesitancy factors and vaccination intention.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Copyright Claims: Roc-A-Fella Records Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

Verio ruling (both the contracts and TTC portions) and the Hamidi ruling. I welcome your suggestions. * * * Over the years, I’ve posted a number of book excerpts, including: The entire chapter on online contracts. The chapter makes a nice module to add discussion about online contracts to another course. Contracts Meyer v.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 18, 2022

This blog presents an overview of what luxury fashion is doing with crypto technology in this feature, as well as what to expect as fashion moves forward into a tech-savvy future. Even premium watch brands are promoting NFT auctions through the many social media platforms accessible. What are NFTs?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

What will “Google Zero” mean to online audience traffic flows (specifically, blogs and podcasts)? In our view, if original content is used to feed AI assistants, then content creators will most likely stop generating content. Would there be any incentives to create original content? As dozens of copyright lawsuits filed in U.S.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals. The Court limited the scope of Section 17(c) to apply to contracts where the relationship between the parties is akin to that of an apprenticeship.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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