Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

This is one of the dozens of lawsuits alleging that social media services addict kids. Jones-based personal jurisdiction over Snap based on the plaintiffs’ allegations that: Defendants acted intentionally when they entered into contracts with M.K., Snap has entered into contracts with thousands of Oregon residents.

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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. sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. In November 2023, X corp. on all counts.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2024

Cooperation, Coordination and Information Sharing The Commission says a key aim of the Toolbox is to promote and facilitate effective cooperation between rightsholders, providers of intermediary services, and competent authorities, by promoting good practice and use of appropriate tools and new technologies.

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Social Media IP Registration Law 96

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

Thus, Lady Freethinker sued YouTube for breach of contract and related claims. (A I’m ignoring the complicating effects of various social media censorship laws that may require Internet services to enforce their TOSes as written, a requirement I think is unconstitutional). ” [Discussing Cross v. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 12, 2022

e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Defamation and Information Torts.

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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.

Blogging 97

Blogging Contracts Intellectual Property Social Media 97

TorrentFreak

APRIL 16, 2024

Late last year, Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making information from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat database available online. The complaint mentioned that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist” on social media.

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Social Media Publishing Contracts Copying 98

BYU Copyright Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Francis") committed copyright infringement and was in breach of contract over the use of hundreds of photographs he took for the school and its students. Francis, located in Watsonville, CA, contracted with Morlos to be the exclusive provider of photography service for the school from June 2018 to May 2021.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The defendants faced claims of trafficking in circumvention devices under the DMCA, contract interference, and unfair competition. The court allowed the gaming company to conduct broad discovery against a number of services, including internet service providers, payment providers, and social media websites, to help put more meat on the bones.

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Social Media Contracts Copyright Infringement Copyright 126

SpicyIP

AUGUST 1, 2023

We are pleased to inform you that the Centre for Innovation, IP and Competition (CIIPC), National Law University, Delhi is inviting applications for the position of Research Programme Coordinator. The contract may be terminated by providing a 15 day notice from either side. The last date to apply is August 12, 2023.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

Although one might think that this statute contains all of the necessary information on Olympics-related marks in Canada, matters are further complicated by the fact that the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) continues to register marks not found in OPMA as official marks under the Trademarks Act.

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IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

Nowadays, privacy concerns exceed personal information protection. . With more businesses developing and using AI-based automated decision-making (ADM) systems, algorithmic discrimination (at work , social media , or public services ) has been in the spotlight (in both the public and governments’ eyes).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

TPG aggregates and collects information from the most prominent rewards programs and provides a series of rankings and recommendations designed to help maximize your rewards points. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. Facebook v.

Cease and Desist 122

Cease and Desist Blogging Contracts Social Media 122

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 24, 2024

The SEC took the position that this confidentiality language still violated Rule 21f-17(a), because the counterparty could only respond to requests for information from certain government agencies, but the exclusion did not specifically preserve the right to affirmatively report potential violations of securities laws to the SEC.

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Confidentiality Cease and Desist Settlement Social Media 52

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. As a result, CCDH met the first prong of the anti-SLAPP protections that the lawsuit targeted socially important speech.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. BrandTotal’s initial software proactively pinged Facebook and collected responsive information. ” Oof.

Contracts 105

Contracts Privacy Social Media Advertising 105

Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

They asked about the descriptions on the FDN-hosted CCA website, but were informed that those were owned by FDN. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 31, 2022

Whether creating a social media account, signing up a for an online service, or just trying to get to bank statements, more and more businesses are linking to their standard terms and conditions online for suppliers and customers. Almost every commercial website provides some amount of information and resources.

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Contracts Social Media Licensing Business 52

Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model architecture or usage). documentation, methods, weighting factors, information on the model and on the architecture). Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g.

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Licensing Social Media Contracts Privacy 102

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The appellate court summarizes its conclusion: However denominated, Prager’s state law causes of action target providers of an interactive computer service in their capacity as publishers restricting access to Prager’s information content—i.e., Prager tried a variety of contract-based workarounds to Section 230.

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 2, 2023

Brands are more likely to require disclosures in their influencing and endorsement contracts. In the world of social media, everyone’s got an angle. These updates emphasize and enhance the principle that organizations and social media influencers must follow basic disclosure, honesty, and substantiation guidelines.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Breach of Contract. Plus, the contract reserved Amazon’s right to delete content and terminate accounts in its sole discretion. Amazon didn’t deceive consumers because its contract reserved the rights it exercised: the CPA claim is based on Amazon’s decisions to remove reviews and revoke review privileges.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

It represents a rare federal intervention into contract law, and it does so for good reasons–to reduce the ability of businesses to manipulate the consumer review ecosystem by wiping away negative reviews and leaving only positive reviews. See this explainer I wrote after its passage.

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Contracts Social Media Business Blogging 62

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 24, 2024

” The SEC took the position that this confidentiality language still violated Rule 21f-17(a), because the counterparty could only respond to requests for information from certain government agencies, but the exclusion did not specifically preserve the right to affirmatively report potential violations of securities laws to the SEC. .”

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IPilogue

MARCH 1, 2022

On the one hand, social media has enabled global sharing of news and creative media. E: What advice would you give to fellow artists and makers on social media on sharing their work? E: What would you like to see happen in terms of the culture of social media artists and their followers?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

LinkedIn closed the account because she allegedly shared misleading COVID information. However, in the post-Musk era, LinkedIn has become my #1 social media referral source.] The plaintiff also argued that LinkedIn breached its contract with her. Another account termination case. I’m not sure. The complaint.

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Contracts Social Media Blogging Marketing 78

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Over the years, I’ve posted a number of book excerpts that are accessible for free, including: The entire chapter on online contracts. It makes a nice module to add an online contracts piece to another course. Jurisdiction. Toys ‘R’ Us v.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria Limited neglected to renew their contract with actor and filmmaker Adewole Ojo to use his photographs for advertisements. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”. Katpost on the ruling here.

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Copyright IP Social Media Copyright Infringement 91

IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

While Canada passed the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in order to meet this requirement, the U.S. organizations receiving information from the EU to attest that they adhere to EU data and human rights laws. law can order social media companies to provide such data to the U.S.

Privacy 106

Privacy Contracts Social Media Government 106

LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Google contracted with LyricFind to supply song lyrics for Google’s “Information Box.” ” The Information Box appears before organic search results. We already mentioned that Google got the lyrics to populate its Information Box, from LyricFind. Social media. Top of mind example?

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Contracts Social Media Copyright Music 52

43(B)log

JUNE 29, 2023

Litigation indicates: it isn’t more efficient than standard competition or sector-specific regulation; it just reflects that there wasn’t enough information about what they were regulating. Success=people are empowered in a real way and track how information flows/reaches them. Europeans don’t think the regulators will be unreasonable.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Subsequently, the Committee published a report which set out a number of recommendations to Government [ Katpost here ] that included equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustments as well as referrals to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

The court therefore concluded that Belle Cosmetics sufficiently alleged that the list of network salespeople and customers was sufficient to constitute confidential information.

Marketing 52

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Traverse Legal Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the game title and NFTs were based on the use of F1, the game, the NFTs, the website, and the social media channels using ‘F1’ all had to be shut down. Securities law, contract law, consumer protection laws, and causes of action for fraud and misrepresentation are all possible legal claims.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 12, 2023

social media platforms such as YouTube, came predominantly from the United States, with Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter users adding to the total. social media platforms did so via U.S.-based Building on the site’s U.S. connections, the complaint notes that visitors to U.S. based search engines like Google.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 10, 2023

They had calorie information, and Wendy’s said theirs was made with a “quarter-pound*” of beef with the asterisk referring to “[a]pproximate weight before cooking.” Quoting “various social media personalities who complained about the size and quality of Defendants’ products” didn’t change this result.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

Expand creator rights with contract restrictions Issue : The report states that the music industry market is an oligopsony - when a market is dominated by a small number of large buyers, which concentrates demand and keeps prices down at the expense of the sellers. Plot twist!

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