LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

[iii] Provisions in Indians Laws Trademarks Act, 1999 does not make any exact provision for publicity rights, but its definition of ‘Marks’ contains names within its ambit. Hence Cristiano Ronaldo’s Publicity rights were bagged by Mint Media for 6 years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Florida legislature (bless their hearts) amended the statute in 2023 (after Lindsey’s rental) to broaden the definition of a livery. Thus, the Terms of Use Agreement is a proper clickwrap contract, and the undisputed facts establish that Lindsey Partridge assented to its terms Case Citation : In re Chaves, 2024 U.S.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 4, 2023

” Today, Apple has about a 15% market share of the global smartphone market, with more than 1 billion iPhone users. The Ninth Circuit began analyzing the Section 1 claim by focusing on the proper definition of the market.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

We are still developing our travel plans (not as much fun in the COVID era), but we will definitely take advantage of our freedom!]. 6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. Books and Academic Articles. NetChoice LLC v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Web3 cannot and should not be reduced to blockchain when the real shift is towards user ownership of digital assets… This definitional shift focuses attention on what assets can be legally owned and the meaning of ownership “rights,” more generally, in the emerging digital spaces of web3.”. . The Rift Over Web3. What is web3, anyway?

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A report by Citibank published in March, 2020 observes that the Metaverse economy could be a thirteen trillion dollar total addressable market by the year 2030. But needless to say, the Metaverse brings into picture several aspects of the law such as Copyright law , Contract law, Tort law and Criminal law. Contract Law .

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2022

Gutman opened both accounts after she entered into the employment contract with JLM. Gutman and JLM employees worked together to strategize as to how best to leverage the social media platforms to market the HP brands.” Gutman’s personality and personal life, these were part of the overall marketing strategy for JLM.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. The claims were unsuccessful, and I speculated that the church may have had better luck if it had a viable trademark or a contract claim, neither of which it had.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 7, 2022

Data privacy concerns for businesses are on the rise, and organizations need to be prepared for the growing threat and response. In addition, Data Privacy is an essential component of our digital economy and should not be overlooked by businesses of any stage or size. Marketing Administrator. Limiting Contractual Liability.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Clearly, the second part of that definition targets Amazon and other major marketplaces, such as eBay, Walmart Marketplace, and Etsy. The first part of the definition includes services with “publicly interactive features that allow for arranging the sale or purchase of goods.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * “ Privacy. * Moreover, the May complaint plausibly alleges that Defendants meet the definition of “businesses” under the CCPA. The post 2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 1 (Marketing, Privacy) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. FTC cracks down on live reads on the radio. *

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Noshirvan’s videos forced Garramone to terminate contracts with surgeons who worried about reputational harm. As you may recall, a South Korean woman didn’t pick up her dog poop on a public train–definitely a social faux pas, and perhaps a crime. Noshirvan appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. Definitely don’t try to replicate Disney’s narrow escape if you can avoid it! But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this.

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43(B)log

JUNE 29, 2023

GDPR has become a gold standard but how much do we know about whether it’s enforced or whether it makes any difference in people’s actual level of privacy? It definitely created a regulatory burden that affected competition, but what became of the big promises? Europeans don’t think the regulators will be unreasonable. Intended or not?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2022

To do the authentication, businesses will be forced to collect personal information they don’t want to collect and consumers don’t want to give, and that data collection creates extra privacy and security risks for everyone. Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy. What’s Required.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Plaintiffs have not met their burden to allege facts demonstrating an injury-in-fact sufficient to confer standing for their privacy-based claims. Plaintiffs’ claims for breach of the GitHub Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, violation of the CCPA, and negligence are dismissed with leave to amend. But not so, says the court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Obviously, these definitions reach most user-generated content (UGC) services, not just “social media” in the classic sense. Ohio AG Yost claims the law is about contracts, not censorship, i.e., the law helps parents supervise the contracts their kids enter into. ” It’s not a close call in my mind.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

That exception doesn’t apply here because “the School Districts are not individual consumers of Defendants’ platforms who need special protections but are not protected by contract.” ” Imagine a reframing: “can for-profit businesses encourage greater customer loyalty using product marketing?”

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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. In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Then he reversed course on remand and ruled in favor of LinkedIn on its breach of contract claims. On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Bright Data Ltd.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Serious Comparative Advertising: Broadening the Definition. She argues that the law should broaden the definition of serious comparative advertisement (where the owner of the mark advertises his product reference to his competitor’s product based on scientific study) by allowing multiple comparisons. Thematic Highlights.

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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. In addition to regularly reviewing IP assets, a company should regularly make sure that its privacy and data use policies comport with the manner in which it collects and uses customer and employee data.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With rising concern about the potential for market consolidation in this area, the Order also instructs the federal agencies that are developing AI-related policies and regulations to promote fair competition in the AI market.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Unauthorised use of someone’s identity is a violation of both their personality rights and their basic right to privacy. The Court rejected the privacy defence, which is often employed in IP proceedings.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

By engaging in this content moderation, the platforms develop particular market niches, foster different sorts of online communities, and promote various values and viewpoints. ” To the extent this provision restates the contract amendment requirement that users must be told before any TOS amendments take effect (see, e.g., Douglas v.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. The petitioner sought to exercise the right to privacy on behalf of her late aunt, J.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are other policy concerns about research such as privacy, human subjects rules. Lunney responds, fairly enough, that this characterization might limit © fair use to the overly limited patent definition.] A: He definitely doesn’t want a commercial/noncommercial divide categorically. things not patentable or ©able.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Collapse of separate body of unfair competition, but also old-fashioned ways of thinking what it means to use as a mark—a certain kind of way of expecting products to be introduced to the market, that is no longer reflective of lots of stuff that goes on, especially digitally. Worried about trusting 1A to do good work here. TM and ROP, maybe.]

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In particular, in December 2021, the DOJ and FTC hosted a virtual workshop that brought together policy experts and labor leaders to discuss efforts to promote competitive labor markets and worker mobility, including scrutinizing and limiting the use of restrictive covenants. its training procedures, and its off-boarding policies.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In particular, in December 2021, the DOJ and FTC hosted a virtual workshop that brought together policy experts and labor leaders to discuss efforts to promote competitive labor markets and worker mobility, including scrutinizing and limiting the use of restrictive covenants. its training procedures, and its off-boarding policies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

At some point, the parties discussed revisiting the contract terms; these discussions ended up blowing up the relationship. Unfortunately, like many of the other cases in this genre, the court’s opinion does not provide a definitive take. The property-vs-contract vibe from the panel ruling reminds me of domain name / collections cases.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Only if you believe they’ll stick with their statement about the definition of “use in commerce.” I think you could say that when you claim to have a “mark” subject to 43(a), you use the relevant definition, but when you’re asserting some other claim under 43(a), you don’t have to do so.] Standing makes him nervous b/c of privacy.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The case involves an interesting interplay between copyright law, entertainment contracts and the First Amendment. Coakley’s threats prompted Wagging Tails—successor to Virtuoso and affiliated with Harvey Berger—to file its breach of contract and copyright infringement lawsuit against Coakley in federal court in Los Angeles.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

However, any online account registration that lets users publish content to anyone, including the world, seems to meet the definition. ” (What does the word “functionally” do in this definition?). MAU doesn’t have a single well-accepted definition, so it can be gamed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Definition of “Hateful conduct” means “the use of a social media network to vilify, humiliate, or incite violence against a group or a class of persons on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”

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