TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These details aren’t provided in the complaint, nor does the complaint mention any prior communication with the defendant, such and cease-and-desist notices, that type of thing. ” 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 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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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rather than challenge a works public domain status in courtwhere they might face a public loss and a court-ordered fee awardsome rightsholders find it more effective (and economical) to rely on public statements, cease and desist letters, and convoluted legal arguments to chill potential users. The post Their Copyrights Expired.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2024

They were either notified via mail by FACT and police, or visited at their home, where a cease-and-desist notice was delivered personally. Since June, the media company reportedly removed over 3,000 listings from various social media platforms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. 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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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

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. The same includes e-commerce marketplaces, standalone business websites, and social media channels. Bottom Line.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In April 2022 , Uffizi sent a cease-and-desist in response to Jean Paul Gaultier’s current use of the Birth of Venus , but the fashion brand never replied and continued its unauthorized use. . Jean Paul Gaultier originally used Birth of Venus in its S/S 1995 Collection on a sheer mesh top.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The complaint alleges that Everly acquired the Firestick Steve customer database from someone who had already received cease-and-desist notices from DISH, which may explain why they were keen to pass former users over. Not even a cease-and-desist convinced him to stop. So what happened to Firestick Steve?

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 9, 2021

Then they received a cease-and-desist letter: another company had already registered the identical brand name for the identical services. Of course, as part of this process, they ordered new menus, hung a new sign, and poured quite a bit of money, time, and energy into this new venture. Second, there’s the cost of time.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2017 and 2018, its lawyers wrote to them several times, demanding that they cease and desist. In order to function, EngineOwning uses a number of services including internet service providers, payment providers and social media websites. Activision Subpoenas… Everything.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Create trademark alerts for your main brands, block them on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media. Request verification of your account from social media. Authorities are always curious about your products. Create local accounts in Colombia to connect with local consumers.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

io but active on hundreds of forums, websites and social media accounts. ” The joint request also calls for a permanent injunction to ensure that Wesam and Ahmad permanently cease and desist from being involved in Ring-1’s operations in every conceivable way.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Believe it or not, I even had to face changing my brand name early on as a result of receiving a cease and desist letter! Missed opportunities to reclaim social media usernames registered by others. More challenges to license or franchise the brand. Reduced brand credibility. Missed opportunities to stop cybersquatters.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2020 his Area 51 service was shut down following an Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) cease-and-desist letter. According to the complaint filed in a California court, Tusa is well known to the plaintiffs. A settlement proposal included a clause that Tusa couldn’t launch or be involved with any similar services.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 5, 2021

DISH went to some lengths to try and close Universe down including sending cease-and-desist letters directly to the platform and more than a dozen to CDN networks associated with the service. This proved fruitless, however, since Universe simply shifted to new locations and different providers.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

The dispute raised questions about a long-debated issue, namely the unauthorized use of images first posted on Instagram and other social media platforms (particularly in light of social media platforms' terms and conditions that allow authors to grant an implied license to repost their works on the platform).

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TorrentFreak

MAY 18, 2022

The service was marketed and sold to users via these domains and through social media platforms. The complaint states that around September 24, 2021, the defendants were notified that their service violates federal laws and told to cease and desist. PrimeStreams Ignored Warning. The decision could prove costly.

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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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KMK Blog

AUGUST 21, 2018

As a result, companies will send “cease and desist” letters to enforce and protect their marks. Once a company owns a trademark, it must police the mark for unauthorized use, or risk losing its rights. At times, however, legal rights are only one consideration.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Some Perspectives Would Sending a Cease-and-Desist Notice Harm Your Chances of Securing an Ex Parte Ad Interim Injunction? Ltd vs Poi Social Media Pvt. Humans Of Bombay Stories Pvt.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Social Media Complaints and Takedown Policies. If your copyrighted work has been reproduced on social media without your authorization, the matter can often be resolved through a message to the account holder, explaining your rights and requesting a takedown. Cease and Desist Letters.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

They first called out Bernstein on their Instagram stories and privately sent her and We Wore What a cease and desist letter in August 2020. TGE claimed Bernstein copied their signature pattern of nude female silhouette line drawings, which had been printed on their tissue paper since the store’s inception in 2016.

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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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Patently-O

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Back in March 2021, Perfect Moment posted social media photos showing influencers posing in Perfect Moment apparel, with recognizable buildings, ski lifts, and trails of the ASC resorts in the background. After a cease & desist letter, Perfect Moment removed some but not all of the photos.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark owners frequently used cease and desist letters to pressure infringers to stop using their marks without authorization before taking legal action. also, Misuse of social media involves using trademarks without authorization to mislead or damage companies. For trademark owners, litigation was their main option.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

An Atlanta-based Tex-Mex restaurant chain has sued an Ohio food truck in federal court to make it stop using the name Twisted Taco on branding and social media, alleging the small business has infringed its trademark for years and ignored cease-and-desist letters.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2022

“We continue to expand our impact through voluntary agreements with domain registries and registrars, fast-track procedures with social media companies, ad companies, payment processors, online marketplaces, etc., all over the globe. So, we work with all parties in the internet ecosystem,” Van Voorn says.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

Judging from the Rusty Krab’s marketing efforts and social media promotion as detailed in Viacom’s complaint, the pop-up was far more focused on providing the backdrop for Instagram-worthy selfies than it was on producing edible food. The court then moves on to consider Viacom’s copyright infringement claim.

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the ever-increasing presence of social media, including websites like YouTube where content can generate income, copyright infringement is escalating at alarming rates. The social media platform would then notify the copyright violator, usually by forwarding the letter they have received.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. Power Ventures was a platform that attempted to enable users to manage all their social media accounts from one platform. Needless to say, it didn’t stop. hiQ Labs II at 43.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Further, using legal assistance and adopting traditional enforcement strategies like a cease and desist notice may also help enforce trademark rights. On social media, companies should take time to get to know these sites in order to understand how to improve their brand protection.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before you spend time and money marketing under that business name, you need to make sure it is legally a great name, one you can feel confident in using without running into an unexpected cease and desist request or trademark infringement litigation and the potential catastrophe of forced rebranding on a short time scale.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop. Plaintiffs alleged that Facebook and LinkedIn agreed to divvy up the social media market “between 2013 and 2016.” On the surface, this case follows the fact pattern of nearly all web-scraping cases. Bright Data didn’t stop.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

For example, the most aggressive companies in pursuing web-scraping litigation are the social media companies. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

scene in the past, things seemed to come to a head in November 2020 when Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Tournament Organizers (TOs) of the Big House, an upcoming streamed Melee tournament, and subsequently forced them to cancel the event. Melee , know this better than anyone.

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Corsearch

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Many social media users and influencers were happy to promote PandaBuy as a low cost, high-quality counterfeit supplier, leading to the network achieving an average of 16 million monthly visitors. Often, brand protection investigators join cases after other tactics, such as cease-and-desist letters, have been tried without success.

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Garrigues Blog

JULY 11, 2022

Consequently, the Supreme Court has confirmed the previous judgment by the Madrid Appellate Court, which was appealed by the sponsor of the festival, ordering it to pay compensation of 20,000 euros, and to partially publish the judgment in a media outlet in print and on two social media outlets. The Supreme Court’s opinion.

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