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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, the Texas legislature enacted HB 20 , a blatant attempt to censor social media service. The opinion emphatically slices through the FUD that’s been generated by pro-censorial forces questioning whether social media services exercise editorial discretion. The Opinion. ” [cite to USTA v.

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Art Law Journal

MAY 4, 2022

Social media has the power and reach to create community, provide a kick of inspiration, and help artists visualize their work from a macro perspective. Perhaps most significantly, mastering the art of social media can help your relationships with your followers and turn them into your tribe. Your time is limited.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

This ultimately means that when a copy of an image is not stored on a computer’s servers but merely “embedded” onto a website, search engine, etc., In most cases, embedded content usually directs the user to the original host’s website, where the content was originally published.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality. Subscriber Agreements.

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IIPRD

JUNE 26, 2024

A social media influencer is someone who creates content based on their niche in various social media platforms where they deliver information by uploading in the mediums of long format videos, short format videos or reels, static posts and stories.

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Kashishipr

JULY 20, 2022

Although this may sound quite encouraging and motivating for those with original ideas, many famous brands out there are accused and widely recognized for being copycats in the market and, unfortunately, making a lot of money. The American video and photo sharing social media platform Instagram has been accused of copying Snapchat.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Publishers and authors are not happy with the site and are actively trying to limit its exposure. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

TikTok Pirates For example, when a viral clip from a TV series is making the rounds on social media platforms, one could argue that this serves as free advertising. This conclusion is quite intuitive in a social media world where ‘influencers’ are widely used to promote content.

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IPilogue

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Vogue’s publishers have sued rappers Drake and 21 Savage for unauthorized use of Vogue’s trademarks and false representations in marketing their newest album, “Her Loss”. Photo Credits: Condé Nast ) (Alt text: Screen capture of Drake’s now-deleted Instagram post containing multiple copies of the impugned magazine cover).

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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. It’s a creative photo, but it was published. “Von D presumably did not need to copy the pose from the Portrait in order express a sentiment of melancholy.” Market Effect. She now does her tattoo artistry pro bono.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 31, 2024

Video game publisher Atari Interactive has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against State Farm, claiming that the insurer improperly appropriated artwork from Atari’s 1983 arcade game “Crystal Castles” for an advertising campaign as part of a “cynical plot” to resonate with fickle millennial and Gen Z consumers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The application of this principle to this case is easy: the elements that Defendants allegedly copied from Coscarelli’s cookbooks are primarily lists of ingredients and directions for combining them. Esquared appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Really? Case citation : Coscarelli v. Esquared Hosp. ,

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

Owners of registered designs can pursue legal action against infringers; however, the ease of replicating designs and the difficulty in tracking widespread copying make enforcement problematic. Design piracy involves copying the visual elements of a product, such as patterns, shapes, and ornamentation.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. After an unexplained absence in 2021, YTS.mx reappeared in the report last year.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

Bell continues to market his 1982 72-page book, and also sells merchandise, “including t-shirts and posters that display the passage that was quoted in the tweets.” Anyway, Bell goes around suing unauthorized users of the passage, mostly public schools or nonprofits that publish the passage on social media. NXIVM Corp.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Everybody knows that content is copied online but the scope of the problem is truly massive. There’s a never-ending stream of infringements across social media platforms that seems impossible to stop, much like the weather. 44,000 Copies of One Event. The copying problem is quite hard to contain.

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IP Tech Blog

MAY 15, 2023

A track called “ Heart on My Sleeve ” went viral recently on social media with lead vocals sounding eerily similar to a certain crooner known for his lovelorn lyrics. This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying. Rather, the vocals were generated using artificial intelligence tools.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 3, 2023

book publishers, rejecting the Internet Archive’s argument that its practice of scanning and lending digital copies of books qualifies as fair use under the Copyright Act. When the electronic version is “checked out,” the physical copy is taken out of circulation. ” What is Controlled Digital Lending?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Recently, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed what has become known as the “server test”: in order to be held directly liable for violating the public display right, the alleged infringer must have a fixed “copy” of the work stored on a server in its possession or control. Instagram, LLC , 2023 WL 4554649 (9th Cir.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the aftermath of Brexit, many publishers were wondering if the UK — with its strong tradition of supporting the rights of publishers, authors, and artists — would provide another voice in defense of copyright. The need remains for high quality, validated news unavailable from social media. Reprinted with permission.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

The book is available as a PDF at Gumroad for $10, as a Kindle ebook for $9.99, and in hard copy at Amazon for $20. The hard copy comes with a free PDF on request; and shipping should be free on Amazon Prime.] For my thoughts about self-publishing an ebook casebook, see this article. Weis Markets. MySpace (5th Cir.).

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

Sedlik alleges that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo by tattooing a reproduction of the Miles Davis image onto the skin of Blake Farmer and then displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market for or Value of the Plaintiff’s Copyrighted Work.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 7, 2022

TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. Additionally, TikTok entered into similar deals with Universal Music Publishing Groups and Warner Music Group. However, as more people copy these dances in videos, the more the creators of the dances are left in the dark.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 1, 2023

According to the Complaint, Katherine is featured at many educational conferences as a keynote speaker and has a large following of almost 100,000 via her blog and other social media platforms where she shares her findings. Over the years that would follow, the works were continually revised, copyrighted, and republished several times.

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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. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. When it first was published, Eric did an excellent job summarizing the opinion in this post. In November 2023, X corp.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Whether it’s movies, music, software or other goods, US companies are among the market leaders. US companies also have a clear presence in China which, with more than a billion potential consumers, is a massive market. These allow pirates to play copies of games on their consoles. ” Baidu. ” Gaming Piracy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2021, Florida and Texas passed laws regarding “social media platform censorship.” In fact, “censorship” occurs when the government tells publishers what they can and can’t publish. ” The bills stylized Internet services as the titular “censors” that needed curbing.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Following the example of the United States, the EU began publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago. The third iteration of the EU watchlist, published a few days ago, provides an overview of some of the most problematic sites and services. Social media. Cyberlockers. – Mega.nz/.io. Rapidgator.net.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In fact, the listing links D’Cruz to BeyondBoundariesHypnotherapy.com, an apparently dead site that carries much of the same information as the new one published in January. As the archive copy of the Beyond Boundaries website on the Wayback Machine clearly shows in the footer, the site was created by web design/SEO company i New Media.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

” Based on his reserved screenplay publication rights, there’s no question that Tarantino is permitted to sell copies of the “Pulp Fiction” screenplay. .” A used copy will set you back $1.09; for reasons unknown, a new copy is going for $113.03—In You can buy one right now on Amazon. (A

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LexBlog IP

MAY 15, 2023

A track called “ Heart on My Sleeve ” went viral recently on social media with lead vocals sounding eerily similar to a certain crooner known for his lovelorn lyrics. ” This is like a watermark that a producer can place in their song to detect copying.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, contrary to The Satanic Temple’s novel argument, domain registration is not the same as registration for a social media website.” As noted above, a webpage openly published on the Internet still requires a viewer to click on its URL before it may be seen. March 29, 2023). Bar associations, do better.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. ” Notice how this legal standard skips a step in the publication process, because it was likely not the initial authors/publishers who submitted the yearbooks to PeopleConnect. Ancestry , Knapke v.

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