Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

June 14, 2024) The post Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? 1 Hotel appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel West Hollywood LLC , 2024 WL 3015504 (C.D. Be Careful!–Khachatryan –Khachatryan v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order. “S.B.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs argued that the law “evidences a strong public policy to protect Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms.” appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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.” Lynk Media LLC v. IHeartMedia, Inc.,

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Marketing. * 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. Comptroller , No.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

” “Plaintiff appears to argue Twitter’s placement of information in “social media feeds” renders it an information content provider. ” Zhang tried the breach-of-contract workaround, but the court says flatly: “There is no exception under Section 230 for breach of contract claims.”

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The process began late 2023 with a soft market testing exercise followed by the publication of the listing above mid-April 2024. The contract was eventually awarded to Bristol-based Calvium Limited, which according to its website already works with the NHS and the Department of Transport.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The agreement also prevented the designer from using variations of her name to market bridal wear. Things went south, however, when JLM tried to renegotiate the parties’ deal by expanding the designer’s social media job duties. Circuit Judge Michael H.

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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

‘Influencer marketing,’ albeit a new word, has emerged as one of the most effective strategies to create money across all industries. 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.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

She tattooed the Sedlik photo onto Farmer and promoted the tattoo on social media. Market Effect. “no one has told [Sedlik] they would not buy a copy of the Portrait because they had seen the Tattoo or social media posts about the Tattoo.” She now does her tattoo artistry pro bono. Nature of the Work.

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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.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2022

TikTok’s effectiveness, as a music marketing tool, became apparent during the early COVID 19 quarantine period, at which time a TikTok influencer created choreography to rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s newly released single, “Savage.” From a label’s perspective, marketing is equally as important as music production.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. Breach of Contract : Plaintiffs only alleged a contract claim, based on breach of a non-compete, against the one defendant who had signed the non-compete. See generally, Christopher A.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

But before they get there, these courts must first decide whether AA’s terms and conditions constitutes a valid and enforceable contract, and whether TPG assented to its terms. 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

JULY 30, 2024

The user took the matter to court (pro se), where the lawsuit failed: Contract Breach. This case also highlights the stakes of the individualized explanations requirement in the TX and FL social media censorship laws if those survive constitutional scrutiny. Google appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

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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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He dismissed American’s claims for breach of user agreement, conditions of carriage (the rules governing air travel), and tortious interference with contract, ruling they were barred by the statute of limitations. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 19, 2023

According to the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport report on influencer culture , the global sector is expected to grow from $6.0 Influencer marketing offers brands a unique opportunity to target and connect with online communities, using a personalized approach. billion in 2020 to $24.1

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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

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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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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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

WowWee’s Vice President of Brand Development & Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, used her WowWee email address to create a Roblox user account and used her Roblox account to promote My Avastars dolls on social media, including videos on her TikTok account. This was enough survive the motion to dismiss.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2023

ICS provider: “message boards and social media sites qualify as ‘interactive computer services.'” Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Third party content: Plaintiff “is responsible for the creation of his tweets, which were circulated via Twitter.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? Biden appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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 28, 2023

Much digital ink has been spilled on online contract formation; much less on online contract termination. Fourth, Defendant agreed with Facebook to divide markets to ensure Facebook would not develop a competing product. The court dismissed the market division argument on the grounds that it was time barred.

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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. Wired : Inside the Underground Market for Fake Amazon Reviews. The post 2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 4 (Section 230, Consumer Reviews) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Mileto, 2022 WL 3006778 (Mich.

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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. Ideal Horizon Benefits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

That legal standard could devastate social media usage in Australia. It increases the risk that ordinary social media users could be liable for defamation caused by their so-called friends. That risk encourages social media users to actively police the comments of their friends–or stop posting entirely.

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43(B)log

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Bluegreen sued a lot of entities, but only the marketing defendants remained in the case: their role was “to advertise timeshare exit services by promoting a legitimate process to exit timeshare contracts while protecting the customers’ credit.” In a particularly “yikes” bit, one marketing defendant 1990.

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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 29, 2022

6th Edition of Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (with Rebecca Tushnet). I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Books and Academic Articles. Analysis of CA AB587). Attorney General.

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