Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

. “Plaintiff seeks to hold Twitter liable for decisions regarding “information provided by another information content provider”—that is, information he and the third-party user, rather than Twitter, provided.” Contract Breach. ” Cite to Kimzey. ” Cite to King v. . ” Cite to King v.

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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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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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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Social Media Influencer is someone who creates unique material that keeps people interested on multiple social media platforms, causing them to return for more high-quality information. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are formal contracts to outline the finer points and, in such cases, licensed professionals are involved to help the athlete understand their legal obligations. Further, it is more likely to be a verbal agreement or one made over social media. To form a contract, three main ingredients are required.

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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

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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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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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.

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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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IIPRD

AUGUST 29, 2024

Hence, commercialization occurs by distributing contracts among the authors and directors/publishers to distribute their works. Like any contract, a broadcasting agreement is entered between the concerned parties ascertaining their rights and obligations with respect to their content as a document enforceable in the eyes of law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” targeted social media advertising. Parker, 2022 WL 17403220 (D.D.C.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. The DMCA is a broad and complex law, but there is one element that applies directly, the removal of Copyright Management Information (CMI).

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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

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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

This Section also provides that right holders shall be informed about this type of use of their works and shall be entitled to ask the exception’s beneficiary to implement more stringent security measures.

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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.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

The press publishers’ right provides publishers of press publications with two exclusive rights (of reproduction and making available), which allow them to authorize or prohibit the use of their content by information society service providers. They can also opt for making their press content available for free.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

information–Children’s Health Defense v. Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. information–Children’s Health Defense v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”?

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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Before tackling more serious matters, a quick look at legal streaming services’ subscriber agreements provides a wealth of information. Anyone who breaches their legal agreement with a platform is, at a minimum, in breach of relevant contract law. Subscriber Agreements. Copyright Law and DRM.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

Speeding literature review One of the most common uses of TDM is to help scholars find, read, and analyze information in academic journals and other sources. Other TDM projects have examined social media and other online sources to track and explain COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy, and to identify High-Risk COVID-19 patients.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In March 2020, she contracted a respiratory illness. The court agrees, in an opinion filled with numerous gems and zingers supporting free speech, such as: “Even if short and often grammatically scurrilous, social media posts do not fall outside the ambit of the First Amendment. She posted on Instagram that she had COVID.

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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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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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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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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

JULY 28, 2021

Although few laws concern the use of an image without consent, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms , the Criminal Code , the Copyright Act , and the Security of Information Act address these legal issues. Section 13(3) states that if the photographer was contracted for work, the photos taken belong to their employer.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“Tusa flaunted his wealth from the infringing services on social media, including posting about the purchase of a luxury car with an AREA 51 vanity plate that he said he would decorate with ‘Rick And Morty’ theme. Breach of Contract. According to the studios, they upheld their part of the deal but Tusa did not.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Shared sued Facebook for: Shared avers that Meta committed conversion (Claim 1), breach of contract (Claim 3), and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing (Claim 4) in suspending access to Shared’s Facebook pages, contrary to the Facebook Terms of Service.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Much digital ink has been spilled on online contract formation; much less on online contract termination. While the 9th Circuit opinion would seem to create an opening for antitrust arguments against “information monopolies,” no one has effectively made those arguments yet. hiQ Labs I, 938 F.3d

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In a November ruling, a magistrate judge notes that the lawsuit appears to be the first of its kindone in which a social media influencer accuses another influencer of (among other things) copyright infringement based on the similarities between their posts that promote the same products. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

” Moreover, her contract claims are based on Defendants’ description of the tour conducted by MAT. That defendants’ tweets were a matter of concern to a substantial number of people is demonstrated by the tweets of numerous nonparties in response to the challenged statements, with some even requesting additional information.

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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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