Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 17, 2024

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. This slightly opens the door for other platforms to claim that their ToS protect different interests, such as users’ privacy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Reddit or X (Twitter) data for ChatGPT) and which try to ban AI data scraping via technical tools and contractual terms (see class action against OpenAI for privacy and copyright infringement). open licenses that extend to non-copyrighted elements ) , as well as regulatory interventions (e.g.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

False urgency is a marketing tactic that creates a false sense of scarcity to pressure consumers into making a purchase, often resulting in dark patterns, limited stock, and unexpected delivery. Misuse of copyrighted content: It also includes misuse of copyrighted material, such as using images or content without permission to mislead users.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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SpicyIP

JULY 17, 2023

Looking at the Data from the IPO Annual Reports Patent filings and grants are at an all-time high in India. Looking for an answer, Swaraj, Praharsh, and Anshuman explore the data from the Indian Patent Office’s annual reports in their post. But who are the parties filing these patent applications? Petersburg.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling.

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IP Tech Blog

JULY 18, 2023

And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. At the same time, we are obligated by both ethical rules and market conditions to offer reasonable rates – which in turn make the use of generative AI compelling. This doesn’t sound so great.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words. That includes copyright infringement.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Intellectual property owners need to add the metaverse to places to watch for possible infringement, specifically, trademark or copyright infringement in the form of NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Other brand owners have been fighting back infringers, commentators and/or parodists as in the METABIRKINS saga.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 3, 2020

Neutron – Technology & Marketing Law Blog [link] 2020-04-26 Changes Result in the Alberta Electronic Transactions Act Applying to Employment and Other Records [link] 2020-04-26 Redbox’s Terms of Use Fail (OUCH)-Wilson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But if they want to be double-sure, send a takedown notice on any grounds other than copyright infringement and voila! Hawks. * New(ish) Report on 512 Takedown Notices. * Can 512(f) Support an Injunction? Chapman. * Allegedly Wrong VeRO Notice of Claimed Infringement Not Actionable–Dudnikov v. 2022 WL 4599203 (D.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Many celebrities and high-profile figures have already signed up to the service, after proclaiming that they are “ditching Twitter” Meta, Instagram’s parent company, has promised that the platform is safer than the alternatives and takes user privacy incredibly seriously. But, just how safe is it for consumers and brands?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Yet especially in the business-to-consumer or “B2C” context, these ToS have often been reviled as largely unread, not understood, and creating an abusive relationship of imbalance of power in monopolistic or oligopolistic markets. If output works infringe copyright, who is responsible (e.g. user, service)?

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In another development, Publishers united to Fight Copyright Infringement on ResearchGate , although it was settled out of court. Prashant and Balaji’s well-worded Special Report: The Smoke & Mirrors Surrounding the Approval of Bedaquiline examined the issue in detail. Corruption in IP Offices, Anything New?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2024

The graph below illustrates the proportion of the content moderation decisions taken in one day based on intellectual property infringements that were taken by YouTube. ( One Day in Content Moderation Report by PGMT lab is downloadable here ). Urban et al.,

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CIC clarifies that merely because a fellowship is funded by public exchequer, it will not mean that it is a public interest issue outweighing concerning privacy issues. Thus, there is no question of invasion of privacy or personal information of a third party being sought. Check out the post for more details.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 30, 2021

Amidst growing concerns about online privacy and security, VPN services have become increasingly popular in recent years. Over the past years, we have seen copyright holders take several ISPs to court, accusing them of failing to disconnect repeat copyright infringers. Logging Repeat Infringers?

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Stakeholders Unite The call to fellow stakeholders appears in the MPA’s recommendations for the USTR’s annual overview of notorious piracy markets. The USTR is mostly interested in the actual notorious markets, however, which are also described in detail in the MPA’s submission. The Public Internet Registry (.org)

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In parallel, websites that sell pirated copies of TIR’s copyrighted videos compete in the same market by targeting TIR’s customers. The complaint notes that at least two of these pirate sites use privacy services provided by the named defendants – Cloudflare and domain company NameSilo. 65 Videos in Total.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Act I When the Committee charged with conducting Canada’s 2019 Copyright Act Review turned its mind to AI, its primary concern was with “help[ing] Canada’s promising future in artificial intelligence become reality” ( Report 2019 ). The training process can involve reproductions of the training data….

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In particular, the retention of, and access to, civil identity data linked to the IP address used should be allowed in cases where those data are the only means of investigation that make it possible to identify the perpetrators of copyright infringements committed exclusively on the internet. Read more here.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 22, 2023

Now portrayed as victims themselves rather than the reason pirate sites exist, pirates are warned about high-level organized crime, using digital content as misdirection, while malware steals their privacy and empties their bank accounts. We asked Immuniweb its opinion on the same app and it received an even worse report.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The plaintiff was granted, through an agreement, an exclusive non-transferable, non-assignable license for selling, supplying, and distributing the defendant’s brands in domestic and international markets. The petitioner sought to exercise the right to privacy on behalf of her late aunt, J. Meher Distilleries Pvt Ltd v.

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SpicyIP

JULY 11, 2021

Varsha reported the significant development that the Delhi High Court issued a press release stating its plan to create an Intellectual Property Division (IPD) in the Delhi High Court. Vempati Ravi Shankar – Facebook Copyright Dispute: Issues on Moral Rights and Posthumous Enforcement of Celebrity Rights. Topical Highlight.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

After CONTU’s report , Congress decided that, yes, computer programs could be protected as literary works. It added a few new provisions to the Copyright Act specific to computer programs and mostly left it to the courts to sort out the rest. for copyright infringement. MAI had had enough and sued.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. Here are the most popular posts over the past few months.

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