Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

In a footnote, the court acknowledges the law is “evolving” with respect to employer ownership of social media accounts: The law on the ownership of a social media pages created by employees for employers is evolving rapidly and varies between jurisdictions. Maryland enacted a social media privacy law in 2021. SF Design Group.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 30, 2024

However, copyright protection may unexpectedly clash with this sustainable practice, as certain upcycled items could include copyrighted prints, ornaments, or design patterns from the original materials, such as new clothing items made out of old bed sheets, curtains, or tablecloths , or jewellery made from broken porcelain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

Our blog post on the original Ninth Circuit ruling: “ Ninth Circuit Says LinkedIn Wrongly Blocked HiQ’s Scraping Efforts ”.). The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

This unauthorized usage may also give rise to breaches of confidence or violations of privacy. While economic interests can be quantified and compensated monetarily, non-economic concerns such as privacy violations, damage to reputation, and mental distress may not be entirely redressed through financial means.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

[I’ll blog the Supreme Court’s cert grant in Gonzalez v. Universal. * Two 512(f) Rulings Where The Litigants Dispute Copyright Ownership. * It Takes a Default Judgment to Win a 17 USC 512(f) Case–Automattic v. HSI. * Furniture Retailer Enjoined from Sending eBay VeRO Notices–Design Furnishings v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. But not so, says the court.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Something has recently gone awry with the law of copyright ownership in a movie or other film — a “cinematographic work”, as s. Part I of the Act deals with the ownership of copyright in works. 13 are the only ones that deal with the ownership of copyright in works. Owning copyright is one thing; proving ownership is another.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Data Privacy : Systems should be developed with built-in protections from abusive data practices for individuals and the ability for individuals to have agency over how their data is used. Like the AI Bill of Rights, compliance with this framework is voluntary but the purpose of the AI RMF 1.0 AI RMF 1.0 Both the U.S.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. Other industries, however, are far from a share and share alike attitude towards AI, and AI has posed challenging questions regarding intellectual property ownership across the creative fields of visual art, music, and writing.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

In a companion blog , we recently detailed the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule banning post-employment non-competes. Courts and state legislatures continue to take aim at post-employment non-competes. The restrictive covenant agreement with Adams was detailed and included limitations on geography and time.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The blog has seen posts noting certain shortcomings of the TKDL in the past, such as here. The Report also does not elaborate on how it proposes to secure community protection for TK within the formal IP regime when the latter is almost exclusively designed to recognise individual contribution while according their works protection.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain. appeared first on Biswajit Sarkar Blog. It also provides a cost-effective way to accelerate such processes.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

The application recognizes disadvantages of blockchain transactions such as long processing time, payee’s inability to identify payor, and sole reliance on electronic credentials to establish ownership to digital currencies. The invention addresses such issues by combining the blockchain network and the traditional payment network.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Accordingly, the court preliminarily enjoins the Owocs from posting to the accounts until ownership is definitively adjudicated. You can see how social media account ownership issues are intractable when companies embrace “cults of personality” around a charismatic entrepreneur. So the accounts remain in limbo for now.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Synthetic data as a workaround for privacy issues. As a potential means for government to provide easy access to data, Dr. Gaon proposed using synthetic data to facilitate access to data and solve privacy problems, citing a government-led project in Israel. David Vaver put forth concerns about IP ownership. Conclusion.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales. She criticises the judgment because the Court based its reasoning solely on privacy without any justifications rooted in property rights.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The Kerala High Court had recognised a petitioner’s right to privacy and reputation while seeking the removal of their name from judgments published on IndianKanoon.

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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 this new architecture, each content creator can “reveal” their content through their digital agents while maintaining ownership and control over how this content is accessed and used.

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Intepat

JUNE 6, 2024

This technique raises serious privacy and intellectual property (IP) problems since it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze biometric data. The architecture and design of biometric systems can be complex, and therefore consensus is needed on the functions and meanings of biometrics. How is Biometric Data driven by AI?

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IPilogue

AUGUST 31, 2021

Privacy Policy. Pass strong legislation to protect privacy more effectively. Work to strengthen privacy protections for Canadians by updating privacy legislation to include a digital bill of privacy rights and boost the powers of the Privacy Commissioner to make and enforce orders, as well as levy fines and penalties.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The Facebook Page is a Designated Public Forum. The court says the city made the Facebook page into a designated public forum because: it allows “comments on its Facebook posts and City Council meetings without any prior approval” “the City does not always apply its ‘off topic’ rule consistently.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

This is a lawsuit between a wedding gown company, JLM, and Hayley Paige Gutman, a designer/influencer who worked for JLM. For background, check out my post on the district court’s ruling here: “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ”. This was erroneous.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Montana’s TikTok Ban Overview In May, Montana banned TikTok in the state so long as it is owned by a company (in this case, ByteDance) that is incorporated in China, a country designated as a foreign adversary. Second, the court says the ban facially discriminates against non-Montanans because it goes away if TikTok changes ownership.

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