Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ohio enacted a law, the “ Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act ,” Ohio Rev. Obviously, these definitions reach most user-generated content (UGC) services, not just “social media” in the classic sense. Recall the term “social media” is literally in the bill title).

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

PopSugar allegedly created profiles of prominent social media influencers and copied their photos from Instagram without permission, leading to a class action lawsuit. This isn’t just a concern for celebrities and influencers but signals a broader threat to the privacy and rights of everyday individuals as well.

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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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IIPRD

JANUARY 29, 2023

It varies from creating an alternate persona on a social media account to voicing an animated character in a movie. The issues pertaining to the rights of VTubers encompass rights to the design of the character, the privacy of the individual, licensing and taking inspiration from an existing character. 6] Stuart D.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi is inviting applications for various research positions. About the Centre for Communication Governance. Depending on the project(s) the consultant is hired to be involved in, the contract period will vary.

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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.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. The Supreme Court also touched upon issues relating to Covid drug procurement through importation.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Let’s give you some insights as to What constitutes such infringement, what can be done against this, and the relevant laws governing such situations . Union of India [1] , established that privacy is an essential Fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. Interesting right? Puttaswamy v.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

WEB3.0 – Decentralized Similar to the real world, the metaverse is not built or operated by a single entity, there are many stakeholders which include individuals, companies, governments etc. The conventional internet and social media, as we know it, is referred to as the Web2.0 – Data protection and privacy issues.

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Intepat

JUNE 6, 2024

This technique raises serious privacy and intellectual property (IP) problems since it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze biometric data. Governments and businesses are increasingly interested in biometric technology, for primarily two functions of theirs: Identification and Verification. How is Biometric Data driven by AI?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Florida made a splash enacting its social media censorship bill SB 7072 , only to have a federal district court immediately enjoin it. the Texas legislature tried to one-up Florida with HB 20 , its own social media censorship bill. If you live in Texas, I’m sorry that your governance mechanisms are so broken.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Governments Can’t Moderate Online Content. In 2021, governments lost several rulings over their online content moderation efforts. The Constitution protects many types of offensive speech; plus local government officials sometimes make petty or ill-informed decisions. See, e.g., Kimsey v. Sammamish , Tanner v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

There is widespread belief that the major incumbents are too big, too rich, and too capricious to avoid pervasive government control. I have explained in detail how mandatory editorial transparency laws enable government censorship, both by prospectively channeling publisher behavior and through post hoc enforcement threats.

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