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Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Music companies are increasingly targeting businesses who use their music on social media. The post The Battle Over Music in Social Media Videos appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's what you need to know.
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Erik K Pelton
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The following is an edited transcript of my video Do These 5 Things When Starting a New Business. A lot of people don’t realize that the LLC or corporation name doesn’t have to match what the overall business or brand name is. Search the name that you’re going to use as the core name to identify your business.
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Erik K Pelton
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The following is an edited transcript of Chapter 21 of my book video Building a Bold Brand: Small Business Concerns Small businesses are just as capable of creating and building great brands as big businesses are. In fact, small businesses may be even more capable.
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Erik K Pelton
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Food trucks are generally very local businesses. Federal registration provides protection in all 50 states, which is important not only to avoid confusion online and on social media, but for potential expansion, licensing, or franchising. The cost of rebranding a food truck can be enough to crush a business.
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JD Supra Law
AUGUST 28, 2024
Fake reviews are a significant problem for the big e-commerce platforms, given that a robust customer review system is crucial to modern e-commerce business models. By: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media
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Legal Zoom
AUGUST 16, 2022
Using social media marketing can be very effective for small businesses. Here's a guide on how to get started.
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Erik K Pelton
MARCH 4, 2025
There are so many ways one can use their brand’s trademark.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 5, 2022
This is a case focusing on ownership of social media accounts. See “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ” and “ Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. (See The court also found “Ms.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JUNE 14, 2024
There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.
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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
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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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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JD Supra Law
JUNE 3, 2022
The Guides assist businesses in conforming their endorsement and testimonial advertising practices to Section 5 of the FTC Act, an increasingly important function given the rise in social media and influencer-based advertising. Indeed, according to the FTC, the proposed. By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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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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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
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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JD Supra Law
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
If a company terminates one of its officers, does that person or his ex-employer own the corporate social media accounts that person used? Or do they belong to the officer, if he also posted details of a strictly personal nature, such as family.
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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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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
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
I am particularly sensitive to the trademark challenges that small businesses face for several reasons. Since 1999, I have built and managed my own small business, Erik M. Perhaps most significantly, the vast majority of the thousands of brands with which I have worked over the years have been associated with small businesses.
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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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CopyrightsWorld
MAY 18, 2022
Want to meet one of the pre-eminent social media experts in America? Kris is the CEO of Ruby Media Group, a full service Public Relations and Social Media Agency located in Manhattan, which offers public relations services, content marketing, social media and personal branding services.
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Traverse Legal Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
“Influencer Marketing” and “Social Media Brand Endorsement” have become big business. Our law firm represents some of the business’s largest social media marketing agencies and influencers. This means they also own and need to license the copyright to the 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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azrights
MAY 10, 2022
It’s well known that the failure rate of small businesses is extremely high. Entrepreneur.com rates people’s chances of surviving in business beyond 5 years at 50/50, while the chances of failure after 10 years are 70%. With that in mind, here are the top 13 reasons why businesses are less successful than they might otherwise be.
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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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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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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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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 24, 2021
A business associate had mentioned that Mr. Willison might want to Google himself, as some odd search results were appearing. Post after post after post, across numerous websites and social media platforms, alleging that Mr. Willison was a sociopathic criminal. And there they were. According to the posts, Mr.
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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.
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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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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Erik K Pelton
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Even a business that has been operating for years without a trademark registration would generally benefit from trying to enhance the protection for the brand by finally registering it. 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.
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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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