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Judge Rakoff: Embedding Social Media Content is a “Display” Under the Copyright Act

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Nicklen “urged his social media followers to consider the ‘haunting’ and ‘soul-crushing scene’ and to take steps to mitigate the harms of climate change.” There would be no need for news outlets to license the video at all if each outlet could, without Nicklen’s prior authorization, embed the video from Instagram or Facebook.

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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

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There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

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The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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Texan J6er’s Social Media Censorship Case Moved to California–Davis v. Facebook

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The Texas social media censorship law remains temporarily enjoined by the Fifth Circuit pending Supreme Court review, but Davis couldn’t wait. Davis claimed that Texas’ social media censorship law preempted the TOS venue clause. Davis argued that the TOSes are contracts of adhesion.

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3 Count: Less Than Routine

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2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The move comes after a recent copyright direct in the European Union, one that requires search engines and social media sites to pay a license to use content from news outlets within the bloc.

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Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? Be Careful!–Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel

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The court says “Plaintiffs’ express assent to 1 Hotel’s use of the photograph therefore created an implied license to use the Photograph on Defendant’s “social channels.”” If the consent was legally effective, then it created an express license, not an implied one. ” This is confused. Be Careful!–Khachatryan

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Copyright Owners Are Still Suing Over Embedding

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With respect to the Jordan video, I assume the video was infringing when uploaded to Twitter, which is why a license argument wouldn’t work. Those licenses were explicitly and unambiguously laid out in YouTube’s Terms of Service, and the sublicense clearly extends to embedding the video. Lynk Media LLC v.