Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

[I blogged the Supreme Court oral arguments in the NetChoice cases yesterday. That decision could have significant implications for this case as well as all other First Amendment challenges of states’ efforts to censor social media.] I previously blogged the TRO. To enable greater government censorship of speech? (I

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

” 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? Plaintiffs have not submitted the Resort’s pages on third-party travel websites or presented social media posts. Kallinen v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation. This raises the question: does the press publishers’ right apply to social media? While social media were not explicitly singled out, they seem to comfortably fall within the ISSP definition. Do social media make content available?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

June 14, 2024) The post Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? 1 Hotel appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel West Hollywood LLC , 2024 WL 3015504 (C.D. Be Careful!–Khachatryan –Khachatryan v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

Utah July 22, 2024) The post Section 230 Doesn’t Preempt Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act–NetChoice v. Reyes appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : NetChoice LLC v. Reyes , 2024 WL 3510919 (D.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 24, 2022

His probation conditions included this restriction: not knowingly post, display or transmit on social media or through his cell phone any symbols or information that [he] knows to be, or that the Probation Officer informs [him] to be, gang-related. JT said the term “social media” was impermissibly vague.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 29, 2023

The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Davis claimed that Texas’ social media censorship law preempted the TOS venue clause. [FN: That was presumably the number when the complaint was filed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Based on the Complaint’s allegations, it appears the named Defendants – a private social media company and its legal department – are not subject to liability under Section 1983. 2020) (internet media websites are not government actors under the First Amendment)… Prior blog posts on Perez’s lawsuit ( 1 , 2 ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs argued that the law “evidences a strong public policy to protect Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms.” appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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McBayer IP Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Posted In copyright , Intellectual Property , Name, Image, and Likeness , Social Media Big business owners, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and influencers are all looking for boosts to their reputations that drive traffic and revenue their way.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Nicklen “urged his social media followers to consider the ‘haunting’ and ‘soul-crushing scene’ and to take steps to mitigate the harms of climate change.” Unlike a parodic use, widespread adoption of the Sinclair Defendants’ use could overtake the market for Nicklen’s video. United Sports.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to promoting, marketing, and advertising, social media is one of the most effective and powerful ways. Content creators and social media influencers work sincerely to build their reputation for expertise in specific industries, products, and topics.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Trademark Tips for Blog Owners. For example, one of my favorite blog titles is a cheese blog called It’s Not You, It’s Brie®. Before committing to a name, blog authors should search the internet and the trademark database at USPTO.gov to make sure it is unique in your industry. Be creative. Use proper trademark symbols.

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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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I’ve blogged some recent cases showing how it’s become really, really hard to win defamation cases over social media content (e.g., The post Social Media Is Often a Defamation-Free Zone…But Not Always–Steak N Shake v. White appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The court’s ruling raises interesting, but troubling, questions about any government actor’s ability to enable reader comments on social media. In Australia, for example, government actors are dropping social media interactivity out of fear that they might be held liable for any defamatory user posts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

My blog post analyzing the law. I can’t blog them all. My blog post. Paxton, the Challenge to Texas’ Social Media Censorship Law appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Earlier this year, Texas enacted a brazenly censorial #MAGA bill, HB 20. NetChoice/CCIA complaint.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Martillo claims that six social media services suspended his accounts because he is an anti-Zionist. The court responds: “the defendants’ social media platforms are not places of ‘public accommodation.’ Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? ” Cites to Lewis v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

First, Voyager Labs allegedly created “thousands of fake accounts to scrape, then sell, platform users’ social media data.” Voyager (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. a UK-based surveillance company. — The opinion was short and focused on a few key facts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

Creators, a term which I and many in the creator economy agree includes influencers, is a unique and distinct set of end users that generate content on platforms (or online service providers or social media platforms). Both creators and brands could benefit from transparency around algorithmic decisions that drive content distribution.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * 2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” targeted social media advertising. Comptroller , No.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Finally, the Terms of Service are akin to those of other social media sites and, given Avi’s many years of using such sites, she would reasonably expect to be bound by them Upholding Snap’s venue selection TOS clause is a standard and expected outcome, but I’ve been mulling Snap’s decision to shift the venue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. This blog post recaps what’s happened to the Gonzalez case since then. Twitter * Social Media Providers Aren’t Liable for Domestic Mass-Shooting–Retana v.

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CopyrightsWorld

MARCH 29, 2022

How do I start a blog? Is blogging a business or a marketing tool? Should you use one social media platform or more? Social media marketing or blogging? Is it expensive and difficult? Which one should you start with? Available now on Spotify, Apple podcasts and Google. Follow us on IG.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

— 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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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2021

Social media platforms present countless opportunities for companies looking to connect to consumers and clients in real time. Foley Hoag will present a 60-minute webinar offering guidance on social media issue spotting for in-house legal practitioners, with a focus on intellectual property, publicity rights and advertising.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2024

A couple of years ago, Florida and Texas passed “social media censorship” laws. The laws were not subtle–the bill titles literally told the world that the legislatures were censoring social media. NetChoice appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

We say goodbye to 2021 with the most interesting posts and articles from the surrounding IP blogs of the past week! v EUIPO | Case T-509/19) and the importance of presenting valid arguments for the existence of a link between the marks - even in the case of marks with an exceptional reputation ( Puma v EUIPO | Case T-71/20).

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IP Tech Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Over the past few years the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been actively taking steps to address consumer protection concerns with sponsorships and endorsements within social media posts that have not been clearly disclosed. Social media platforms.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Clear disclosure of an ad is of paramount importance in the advertising world, and we have discussed this previously in our blogs here and here. The ASA held that under the CAP Code, the posts were marketing communications and as such, should have been obviously identifiable.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This is one of the many lawsuits against social media services for allegedly providing material support to terrorists. June 22, 2021), which I never had the chance to blog because it’s 167 pages and the panel was so deeply split that the whole decision clearly needs en banc review. Google LLC , 2021 WL 2546675 (9th Cir.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. With respect to the social media services’ status as publishers, the court says: the plaintiff’s RICO claims depend on Twitter and Facebook’s acting as publishers. The complaint.

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The Illusion of More

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

One of my first mantras when I started this blog was I hate Twitter, but that was shorthand for the broader view that social media is a trainwreck. Of course, the existential difficulty presented by these platforms is that while they can be highly toxic, as long as the market remains, one must have a […].

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

But when the case returned to the district court after the initial ruling on the temporary restraining order, hiQ’s antitrust arguments were dismissed for failure to properly identify the relevant market in which LinkedIn has a monopoly. The court dismissed the market division argument on the grounds that it was time barred.

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