Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

20-303 (Office of Attorney General March 10, 2022): “internally generated inferences that a business holds about a consumer are personal information within the meaning of the CCPA, and must be disclosed to the consumer on request. ” * Bloomberg : Global Privacy Control Popularity Grows as Legal Status Up in Air.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 27, 2021

Privacy has been a reoccurring issue debated across the world as virtual communication is no longer seen as an option but essential to working remotely during a pandemic. Not only does this violate our privacy rights, but it also creates a bigger ethical dilemma within the economic market. Zoom: The 2020 Icon of Remote Work.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Filed at a federal court in Illinois, the complaint sees DISH Network and Sling TV target Richard Moy, the alleged owner of CLVPN LLC, which ordinarily does business as City Lights Entertainment. Statutory damages for ECPA violations are almost negligible in comparison; $100 per day of violation or $10,000, whichever is greater.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 18, 2023

By: ArentFox Schiff

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

As alleged in the complaint, plaintiffs operated a bakery known as “La Baguette,” and hired defendants to manage aspects of the business. Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. It had approximately 4,000 followers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

American business regulation generally encourages “permissionless” innovation. It requires businesses to prepare “impact assessments” before launching new features that kids are likely to access. The bill requires businesses to prioritize the best interests of children above all else.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention. First, the bill is not limited to pornography sites.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Both the Tweet and the article, which appear in the video posted by the Defendants, indisputably place Kogan’s photo with Jackson next to images and text that promote penile enhancement surgery and the Defendants’ business. When is a video showing content published on social media an advertisement, and when it is a documentary?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 5, 2021

Dustin Marlan, The Dystopian Right of Publicity Privacy problems (surveillance) are often analogized to the dystopia of 1984; ROP problems stemming from infinite transferablility can be analogized to Brave New World (1932). Class action ROP lawsuits against social media: result was broader consents in TOS. See her book.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MAY 1, 2022

Entities that typically utilize AUPs include schools/universities, corporations/businesses, internet service providers, and website owners. Included in a standard AUP are clauses specifying the purpose and scope of the policy, the user’s rights and responsibilities, acceptable uses, prohibited uses, and privacy standards. Pornography.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

As artificial intelligence, also known as “AI” becomes more of a household word, it is worth pointing out not only how cool it can be, but also how some uses raise privacy concerns. Examples of this are evident in the massive explosion of smartphones and social media.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. Academic researchers can also fit this paradigm. ” Click on the image to see the animation.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

Some information is redacted for privacy reasons, often when the notice includes the name of a private individual, for example. While it’s not really acceptable to use an OnlyFans logo to promote another business, the image below reveals that the ‘DMCA expert’ in question may have ripped off the logo owned by DMCA.com.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Consistent with this message, the FTC has been busy rulemaking to address data protection and privacy, disclosures, endorsements and reviews, children’s advertising, and health-related product claims. What Privacy-Related Claims Does Your Company Make? Disclosures, Endorsements, Dark Patterns – Oh, My!

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Millions across the globe have flocked to Instagram Threads – the newest social media platform on the block. As with Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms, businesses must be wary of bad actors targeting their brands and consumers with fake products and scams.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 26, 2023

Not only are individuals subject to these scams, but legitimate businesses are spoofed and used to conduct the scams and they only find that out after the fact. It is frustrating when your business name is used by a criminal to conduct fraud and you don’t know it’s happening, how it’s happening, or how to stop it.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Data Book, as the FTC calls it, found that “email was the #1 contact method for scammers this year, especially when scammers pretended to be a business or government agency to steal money.” Social media scams. Scams starting on social media accounted for the highest total losses at $1.4

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over 3 billion images from various social media platforms and other online sources to create a facial recognition database.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Third, this lawsuit overlaps the broader censorial efforts to impose liability for social media addiction, including an MDL on that topic in the Northern District of California. ” The defendants successfully defend on Section 230 grounds. That’s unconstitutional, and it’s not the proper role of the judicial system.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 10, 2024

It talks about the matters like employment being at stake, efficiency and transparency, worker privacy, inclusive technological adoption and collective bargaining in contemporary world. Through ongoing data gathering and monitoring, AI can potentially violate worker privacy, which can result in unfair management practices and stress.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

In this technologically advanced age, success or failure of a business depends heavily on the marketing strategies that have been adopted. Daler Mehendi, a known singer and the plaintiff in the present case, had a registered trademark over the letters “DM” and established a business called “D.M. Entertainment Pvt.

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43(B)log

JANUARY 19, 2022

Consumers and advertisers adequately alleged that Facebook has monopoly power in social network/social media (consumers) and social advertising markets. Plaintiffs successfully alleged that “Facebook acquired and maintained monopoly power by making false representations to users about Facebook’s data privacy practices.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

These duties do not derive from or even require publishing—they arise from Defendants’ alleged possession, use, and/or dissemination of biometric data without notice or consent Cite to the federal Social Media Addiction ruling. The court shrugs its shoulders. The court shrugs its shoulders. This is a rough ruling for Amazon.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 14, 2022

Employees were discouraged from communicating with each other about their work and were advised not to share the company’s name on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Unsuccessful products and failed business strategies cannot be concealed indefinitely behind a curtain of alleged trade secrets. 18 U.S.C. §

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Supreme Court looked into a wide variety of issues such as oxygen and Covid-19 drugs shortage, equitable pricing of vaccines, protection of health workers, possibility of invoking compulsory licenses and the clampdown on free speech on social media platforms. The Karnataka and Orissa High Courts too have dealt with similar matters.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Other considerations for legal professionals abound, privacy being salient among them. AI-generated music adopting the vocal styles of popular musicians has become ubiquitous on TikTok and other social media platforms, racking up millions of views and listens, and raising copyright, trademark, and right of publicity questions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In a November ruling, a magistrate judge notes that the lawsuit appears to be the first of its kindone in which a social media influencer accuses another influencer of (among other things) copyright infringement based on the similarities between their posts that promote the same products. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

b) The world’s largest social media, intervened in a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S. states, for illegal monopolization of the personal social network market, because of the acquisitions of two communication network sites. What is the approach of antitrust laws in these markets?

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2024

DPIA Report Requirement: The State argued that these extensive and time-consuming reports will require businesses to assess “how their products use children’s data and whether their data management practices or product designs pose risks to children.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

granted an ad interim injunction in favour of the plaintiff, which is the owner and registered proprietor of the trademark TATA and is engaged in the business of e-commerce through its platform tatacliq.com., Some of these could survive the death of the celebrity, however, the right to privacy was not among them. June 30, 2021].

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Section 230 fostered the dominant social media business model where almost all of the major internet media services rely primarily upon user-provided content. But, AI may be different since it is more content-generative than most social-media. ”) 47 U.S.C. DCMA notice-and-takedown-provision.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks.

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. about your goods, products or services”).

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