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.” Use of content posted to social media has generated many posts on this blog, starting with AFP v. United Sports.

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The Illusion of More

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In an excellent post on the blog Librarian Shipwreck, the author reminds us to take a more expansive view of the so-called Facebook problem. The post On Fixing Social Media: Why Fear Unintended Consequences?

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. Utah argued that the law doesn’t suppress any specific topic.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding? The post Server Test Showdown?

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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 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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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

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

MAY 30, 2023

The categorization of social media accounts into “business” and “personal” accounts was a hot issue a decade ago, when states across the country passed laws to protect employees from invasive employer demands to access or control their personal social media accounts. See Musk, Elon).

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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

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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Kashishipr

MARCH 23, 2022

In this blog, we will understand how social media is becoming the new territory for cybersquatting and shed light on the steps to reduce the issue on different social media platforms. How Cybersquatters Tarnish a Brand on Social Media. While Tony La Russa (the former manager of the St.

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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. Declaration from Stop Child Predators.

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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. “S.B.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Brands’ social media feeds are getting attention lately, but not always for the right reasons. We’ve covered social media advertising risks in our ADventures in Law blog before. By: BakerHostetler

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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. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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

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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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Across-the-board social media and influencer marketing integration are aspects of the present-day artificiality regarding persuasive brand dissemination in faces and identities. Trademarks Scars on Social Media It defies law in this modern digital age. It has also brought a lot of challenges.

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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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JD Supra Law

MAY 13, 2022

Following the success of the previous blog post “A Brief Overview of the Metaverse and the Legal Challenges It Will Present,” we are introducing a new feature for the Tech & Sourcing blog: “Future Watch.”

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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

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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IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize for 2021-2022. Four prizes in total are awarded each year to Osgoode students and the winning blog posts are featured in the IPilogue. Gowling WLG Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize? Best Blog: Kwangil (David) Park: What is a Method of Medical Treatment? . Gowling WLG ?Best

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Threat of Creative Theft Creative theft poses a significant challenge for independent artists, manifesting as the unauthorized appropriation of original works through reposts, remixes, and style imitations on social media platforms. Employ social media monitoring tools that alert you whenever your work appears on other platforms.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Threat of Creative Theft Creative theft poses a significant challenge for independent artists, manifesting as the unauthorized appropriation of original works through reposts, remixes, and style imitations on social media platforms. Employ social media monitoring tools that alert you whenever your work appears on other platforms.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Social Media search: These resources check for usernames containing your registered trademarks that are used on major social media and other websites: KnowEm ( www.knowem.com ) socialmention ( www.socialmention.com ) Scour the web: Search a variety of websites for variations of your trademark(s).

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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

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 blog post covers the appellate brief and some supporting amicus briefs.

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The Illusion of More

MARCH 10, 2022

Not that I have any delusions about the reach of this blog, but for what it’s worth, here’s a pro-tip for celebrities everywhere about sharing photographs of yourselves on social media: if you don’t own the rights in the image, don’t post it. This keeps happening.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

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. There wasn’t even a system for registering blog content, like this site, until June 2020.

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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.”

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Likelihood of Confusion

AUGUST 31, 2022

Cases involving blogging and social media? How about SLAPP motions in cases involving defamation and blogging and social media and Patterico?! Do you like defamation cases? And what if they’re. The post I’m with Popehat appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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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). If not, then the creator economy will continue to be an unbalanced ecosystem that fails to reach its full potential.

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