Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Still, it seems troublesome because it ignores that some contract was formed at point of purchase, and those terms should be relevant to governing the device and possibly whether or not the service TOS is an amendment, a conflicting contract, or something else. BONUS: Additional contracts links from the past six months.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“Operation 404 is a model for effective and efficient criminal enforcement measures against piracy sites and services and should be replicated by other markets within the Western Hemisphere,” MPA writes. After all, the contract is not linked to an address like it works with cable TV,” Grigolo explained.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

However, the shift from a market of goods to a market of services has changed this paradigm. The users access to the work is safeguarded as long as the service is offered, and the user often does not have a right to enjoy the work after the subscription contract is terminated. 811 of the CDSM Directive.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

First off today, David Saleh Rauf at Edweek Market Brief reports that ACT has emerged victorious in a legal fight against their competior WIN as an appeals court has upheld a legal victory for the prominent testing organization. Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * 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. * NY Times : Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S. Comptroller , No. C-02-cv-02-10509 (Md. Turtle Island Foods SPC v. . *

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. But ultimately, the onus is on Disney to create a contract formation process so conspicuous that a court can’t reach decisions like this. Facebook, Inc., 2023 WL 3483891 (S.D. May 16, 2023).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 2, 2023

The court summarizes: Mr. Mickleborough had a contract drafted for Achter to sell SWT 86 metric tonnes of flax to SWT at a price of $17.00 Mr. Mickleborough applied his ink signature to the contract, then took a photo of the contract using his cell phone. per bushel (which amounts to $669.26 In Bardales v.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The dissolution of this contract will rely on the termination clauses that stipulate the division of IP between the parties or whether any “moral” clauses allow early termination of the contract. Moral clauses hold contracting parties to a behavioural standard so as not to bring scandal to the other party.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Stay tuned for expert insights regarding the impact of AI on intellectual property, licensing, contracts, regulatory policy, enforcement, privacy, and venture markets in life sciences. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 25, 2022

In this video, Blockchain attorney Enrico Schaefer identifies key legal issues every brand, marketing agency, or project point person needs to be thinking about before launching an NFT project for a company. Major brands and their marketing agencies understand that NFTs offer new and innovative marketing and Public Relations opportunities.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

. “all his claims relate to the suspension of his account and the alleged failure to suspend the third-party user’s account, whether they are styled as breach of contract, tort, or fraud claims…All of Plaintiff’s claims seek to treat Twitter as a publisher.” Contract Breach. ” Cite to King v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

” Market effect: “Townsquare’s article reporting on the original Jordan video similarly contained that original video as part of an embedded post from X, including additional text and images from the X post, and there is thus little to no risk of market usurpation.”

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

The plaintiffs sued Facebook for (1) negligence; (2) breach of contract; (3) breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing; (4) violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Twitter for this intersection of Section 230 and contract breach claims. Meta appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The court couldn’t sufficiently discern the relevant market from the complaint, so the court can’t figure out any cross-elasticities. The court rejects the plaintiffs’ attempts to create single-brand markets. Breach of Contract. Apple appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2021

It’s a reminder that you must consider how you will introduce evidence of contract formation in addition to worrying about the contract terms and formation process. “To the extent the contract pertains to use of Peloton’s Services (e.g., ” Thus, the nonparties cannot be swept into the contract.

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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

To address the market distortions and the music streaming ‘value gap’, the Government should introduce robust and legally enforceable obligations to normalise licensing arrangements for UGC-hosting services. Apple, on the other hand, maintained that safe harbour provisions create an “unlevel playing field” in favour of YouTube. Plot twist!

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Even in situations where a business owner contracts a third-party web designer to build their website, both the business and the web designer can be held liable for copyrights violated if they are used on your website. the effect of the use upon the potential market. the purpose and character of your use.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the corporate world, GenAI tools have the potential to help companies produce better results faster in a number of areas, such as software development, expertise automation, document management and generation, contract and predictive analytics, marketing and content generation. By: Hutchison PLLC

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In particular, the LFP has decided to refer the matter to the interim relief judge in order to obtain an urgent order for DAZN to pay the sums stipulated in the contract and an injunction to perform all of its contractual obligations,” LFP noted.

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Michael Geist

MARCH 31, 2023

His privacy legislation has languished for months and he has been entirely missing on digital policy, where fishing expeditions such as the one involving Bill C-18 are likely to make companies reticent about entering the Canadian market. It’s a tacit admission that there is a merger problem after he approved the merger.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The Ninth Circuit easily dismisses most of it in a breezy memorandum opinion, but the contract claim gets revived for a little longer. In a mild surprise, the panel revives her breach of contract claim. This resurrects Lloyd’s breach of contract claim, but only temporarily. My prior blog post. Case Citation : Lloyd v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 22, 2022

This covers the breach of contract claim too. Contract breach. Dorsey appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. . “his claims derive entirely from Twitter’s decision to exclude his content and suspend his account—that is, traditional publishing functions.” ” Cites to Roommates.com and Barnes v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

The plaintiffs point to the Facebook-Cognizant contract as the source of that duty. Cognizant appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Specifically, the complaint doesn’t say “who at Cognizant should have warned Plaintiffs or precisely when and where they should have been warned.” ” Nor does OSHA.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 10, 2021

As I blogged last time: The plaintiff can replead the contract breach claim for failure-to-pay, but the case has lost all of its ideological implications about must-carry obligations and instead has devolved into a routine collections case (that will likely fail anyways). Alphabet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The court dismisses the contract and IIED claims on Section 230 grounds. In our Advertising & Marketing Law casebook, Prof. Meta appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. (The Wikipedia entry gives some clues about why the movie may not have performed as well as the producers hoped). Google ruling from 2007.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Prager tried a variety of contract-based workarounds to Section 230. Going beyond the contracts, Prager looks to various “promises” it alleges that defendants made through public-facing comments. Indeed, the whole “but the algorithms” attack on Section 230 has always been nonsensical.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2024

In February, Meta lost on Partial Summary Judgment against Bright Data on its breach of contract claim. had its breach of contract and CFAA claims against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) dismissed at the motion to dismiss stage. Here, the court muddles the various contract formation standards. No, it does not.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Contract Formation. Reminder: a second click is best practice because it reduces risk of contract formation failure, like what happens here). The court doesn’t specify what contract terms gap-fill in the TOS’s absence, but those default rules won’t be as favorable to Roblox as their TOS. Section 230.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The lawsuit includes claims for breach of contract, violation of Section 230, IIED, NIED, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and conversion. Breach of Contract/Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing. This is a helpful explication of the intersection between Section 230 and breach of contract claims.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The court characterizes the formation process as a “clickwrap,” which the court says usually create binding contracts. This court responds that Kauders “did not conclude that an online-service contract could never notify a customer of an arbitration provision. That’s the case here.

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The IPKat

JUNE 13, 2022

The non-fungible part means that it is something that has unique value based on the buyer’s sentiment and/or market dynamics. In practice, what this means is that a whole new market has been opened-up as NFTs have provided a system that has enabled the sale of digital items by transforming them into collectables, such as a tweet.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

This is the screen design at issue: This is the Maine Supreme Court’s first foray into online contract formation. The court does not like the “done” approach: to a reasonably prudent user, clicking “DONE” would not indicate assent to a contract or, in fact, anything beyond having completed the registration process.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contracts are a state-law issue. And online contracts, even though they exist in the friction-less, boundary-less world of the internet, are also generally governed by state-law principles. There are relatively few state-court cases with outsized influence in the law of online contracts. By guest blogger Kieran McCarthy.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 9, 2023

I was seated with a digital marketing employee, employees in the clinical research and development team, and an employee in the respiratory team. AstraZeneca is a global company, some contracts can require engaging in services in other countries. AstraZeneca focuses on clinical research but also marketing and sales of its IP.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

[Note: The majority opinion doesn’t expressly reference Uber’s post-Kauders vulnerability, but the dissent says: “It is undisputed that as a consequence of Kauders, no enforceable contract existed between Good and Uber before the evening of April 25, 2021.” ” The TOS links were clear, in blue, and underlined.

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