Erik K Pelton

MARCH 4, 2025

There are so many ways one can use their brand’s trademark.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 2, 2024

lawmakers, meanwhile, suggested that piracy is part of the company’s business model. X is increasingly the home of unlawful social media piracy,” the letter reads. Research published by the EU Intellectual Property Office found that X is rife with piracy-related discussions.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Should user-generated content (UGC) on social media platforms be free from any regulation and the rule of law, simply because it is user-generated? Should social media platforms be given a pass when it comes to any responsibility for the UGC that they distribute?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

I’m continuing coverage of the legal challenge to Texas’ social media censorship law, now on appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Texas’s blithe acceptance of whole subjects of speech disappearing from social media suggests it has little true interest in preserving “an uninhibited marketplace of ideas.” Moody case.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

The bill applies to “social media platforms” that: “(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system created by the service. (B) ” This definition of “social media” has been around for about a decade, and it’s awful. Who’s Covered by the Bill?

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I love a great meal, I love supporting small local businesses, and I have a connection to the restaurant industry: my wife and my brother-in-law own two restaurants. And having a protected name is an asset for that transaction and adds value to the business, because any future owner will know that it’s protected.

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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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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

Class 3: cosmetics and cleaning preparations Class 5: pharmaceutical products Class 9: electrical and scientific apparatus (includes both software (downloadable or physical software on a disc or drive) and hardware) Class 12: vehicles Class 14: jewelry Class 15: musical instruments Class 16: paper goods and printed matter (includes anything that’s (..)

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 3, 2021

Many of the large social media platforms stick to these rules. A Piracy Business Model. While Twitter is not accused of doing anything illegal, the House Representatives write that the company’s actions make it seem as if piracy is part of the social media platform’s business model.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 27, 2024

The following is an edited transcript of Chapter 9 of my book video Building a Bold Brand: Registration: Better Late than Never Ideally, a business should protect its trademarks from the outset, filing as the brand launches or even earlier based on an intent-to-use the mark. Probably not!

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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.” But surprise! I hope it doesn’t.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While most suspects received warnings, South Wales Police arrested a 42-year-old man who’s allegedly involved in the pirate IPTV business through sales of ‘illicit’ Firesticks. To further combat illegal IPTV services, FACT has also issued takedown notices to various social media sites and online marketplaces.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The team also discusses current cyber threats and readiness tips for security professionals and business leaders alike. Join us for an in-depth conversation that explores our guests' personalities, expertise, and the path that led them into cybersecurity. Charity Wright is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Recorded. By: Carlton Fields

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On October 25, 2022, following a string of antisemitic remarks and hate speech from Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) on social media, Adidas announced their decision to terminate their co-branding partnership with Ye and end production of all Yeezy branded products.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When reports about Facebook’s plan to change its corporate name hit the internet, branding experts offered their theories about the driving force behind the social media giant’s decision to rebrand itself. After all, a rose by any other name may smell as sweet but a business with a new name may not be as successful. .

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Now, WWE has filed twelve new trademark applications, reinforcing that intellectual property is just as vital to its business model as the action inside the ring. Trill London straddles the line between modern slang and a social media influencers alter ego. Osiris Griffin feels like an ancient warrioror maybe a sneaker brand.

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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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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I have to admit, I’ve been in business for 20+ years and I never had a actual defined style guide until this year. A style guide is important because it makes sure that everyone on the team, everyone in the company, in the business, is on the same page when it comes to working with the elements of the brand.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 5, 2022

One of the most frequent questions I get is “When should I begin the process to start applying to register my trademark as a business owner?” That moment, of course, can be at a variety of different stages for a business, and that’s what I want to review here. What if you started using the brand name on social media?

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Corsearch

JANUARY 31, 2025

For many brands, the holiday season brings a surge of infringements on across marketplaces and social media. But seasonal infringement also stretches far beyond marketplaces, with social media used as a means to reach a wider audience under less scrutiny from platform operators.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

businesses. LaLiga recognizes that its comments go beyond the scope of the USTR’s efforts but believes that highlighting the piracy-facilitating role of these businesses is important. By definition, the overview aims to identify foreign companies and policies that may hurt U.S. tech companies, including Cloudflare, Google and X.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 30, 2022

Trends on social media move so quickly, but this one has lingered, and it’s about red flags. Because it’s related to social media, I only learned about it because of my children and my family, but a lot of posts about red flags use the red flag icon or emoji, and then warning signs about a particular topic.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Content on TikTok and other social media platforms is theoretically copyrightable. In practice, however, the IP rights of social media creators today are less clear. They are also discovering that not all creators are created equal, even when they are the source.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The ability for users to leverage an extensive music database has, in large part, allowed TikTok to become one of the most used social media platforms in the world, and its influence in the global music business has been monumental. By: Polsinelli

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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. ” Moy allegedly alerted resellers to legal actions against other streaming services and offered advice on how best to acquire their customers.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 1, 2024

Having such a trademark associated with a book title is useful when possible, because it helps the author control the relevant domain name(s) and social media profiles. For more, visit How to Protect a Book Title The post Can a book title be a registered trademark? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

million in copyright damages against Skiplagged—but the website’s business model remains largely unaffected. When misused, copyright—meant to safeguard creative expression—can become a tool to stifle competition or a backdoor means to restrict business practices that, though controversial, remain legal.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2024

From Doing Business On Sunday evening, Leafo received an alert and went on to discover an ominous status for the Itch.io I’ve been trying to get in touch with them via their abuse and support emails, but no response likely due to the time of day, so I decided to ‘escalate’ myself on social media.”

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Social media platform Facebook also reports huge numbers of takedowns to the EC. Other reasons for content deletion unrelated to copyright, and in some cases seemingly more complicated to determine via automated means, were in abundant supply. Those listed below represent just a small sample.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 10, 2021

A portfolio of trademarks entails multiple brand names, logo, slogans, and/or other source indicators protected by a business. Many, or even most, businesses have more than one trademark that could be protected – different brands, or a good slogan or logo.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Second, the CAB wants to massively increase the platform revenues that are calculated as part of the minimum of 4% of search or social media revenues. The draft regulations feature specific numbers for both search and social media, but the CAB didn’t even bother to include a proposed threshold for news aggregators.

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

Trademarks provide multiple crucial advantages to businesses and customers alike. To safeguard your trademarks adequately, you should track new trademark filings, online use, social media usage of marks, and domain names, which shall alert you to potential conflicts. They validate the source of products or services. Bottom Line.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Having a trademark registration is a valuable tool in making a complaint regarding social media username infringement. The internet has lowered barriers to starting a new business, therefore finding a good and protectable brand name is becoming increasingly difficult.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2024

Social Media Purge Besides targeting suspects, Sky has been busy removing advertisements and social media posts that offer illegal IPTV subscriptions and ‘loaded’ Firesticks to customers in the UK and Ireland. Since June, the media company reportedly removed over 3,000 listings from various social media platforms.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 2, 2022

From withering restrictions on Russia’s banking system to a simple refusal to do business, the desire is to restrict Putin’s ability to wage war. On a public level, US and EU entertainment companies have also suspended business, meaning that Netflix, Spotify and similar services are a thing of the past.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, we have seen hosting companies, advertisers, and social media platforms being added. These don’t have piracy as their core business, but they allegedly facilitate infringing activity. In recent years, the scope of the report has broadened. These stores are often linked to the sale of counterfeit goods.

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