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Influence At Your Own Risk: Navigating Influencer Contracts

JD Supra Law

In response to the rapidly growing ubiquity of influencer-driven marketing, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published numerous guidelines for influencers and advertisers alike.

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CMA Releases Report on Music Streaming Market

IPilogue

On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. Moreover, competition between music streaming services and the digitization of the market improved consumer outcomes greatly, though creators still had concerns about their earnings from streaming.

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BREAKING: First CJEU referral on press publishers’ related right (Italian-style)

The IPKat

After the first DSM Directive-related referral from Belgium on the provisions concerning contracts of authors and performers [IPKat here ] , it is now the turn of Article 15 (the related right for press publishers) as implemented into Italian law. All this would serve to ‘foster the availability of reliable information’.

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Sci-Hub Only Option For Academics In Russia After Major Publishers Pull Out

TorrentFreak

Major Academic Publishers End Sales in Russia. In line with other Western entities choosing to boycott Russia, 15 major companies with a virtual monopoly on scientific publishing decided that enough is enough. of the Russian market) are bought by a central source, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR).

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Poorly Executed “Sign-in-Wrap” Contract Formation Process Fails–Berman v. Freedom Financial

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court confirms that to ensure enforceability, consumers should (1) check the box and (2) be advised that checking the box will indicate assent to contract terms. Fluent is a marketing company that generates leads. These basic principles “apply with equal force to contracts formed online.”

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YouTube Isn’t Liable for User Uploads of Animal Abuse Videos–Lady Freethinker v. YouTube

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Thus, Lady Freethinker sued YouTube for breach of contract and related claims. (A The underlying legal principles are not complicated: content rules in TOSes are negative behavioral restrictions on authors’ conduct, not marketing or contractual promises to readers that such content will never appear on the site.

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Getting paid to play? Copyright, contract, and the rewards for UGC

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In my project, You Can Play (see also working paper here ), I explore how contract, rather than copyright, is the key enabler of user creativity in this industry. Commercial’ use is instead more narrowly construed by game publishers to mean use for the benefit of a company (e.g.,

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