Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Instead, its submission indicates that wants all broadcasters (which given the law would include the CBC) to get an even bigger portion of the potential Bill C-18 revenues by expanding the definition of “journalist” to include everyone from sound and video engineers to researchers and fact checkers.

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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system. 9] Determining the “field of endeavor in which the inventors were working” is crucial, and it’s best to avoid “both unduly wide and unduly restrictive definitions” because they may lead to problems.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Doe’s negligent design claim similarly aims to hold Snap liable for communications exchanged between Doe and Guess-Mazock. I know there are many people who support that outcome; indeed, that’s the inevitable effect of California’s proposed Age-Appropriate Design Code. This claim is also barred by Section 230.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

JULY 1, 2024

Unauthorized pages and posts on social media can dilute a brand’s goodwill and reputation and confuse consumers. One of the most important strategies to tackle these issues is filing takedown requests with social media and e-commerce platforms. And the worst part?

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The first involves the definitions for harms such as inciting violence, hatred, and bullying. However, the definitions are not without risks that they may be interpreted in an over broad manner and have implications for freedom of expression. The definitions are where there may concerns in some instances. How are these defined?

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 18, 2020

And protecting the words alone means that all fonts, colors, designs, and uses of those words are covered in the scope of the trademark registration. And when the logo is creative and unique and a nice design, it is valuable to protect the logo separately. However, there are unique circumstances where that might not be the case.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Watch UFC Free” These people also brazenly advertise on social media platforms to attract viewers to their pirate websites, with slogans on social media sites such as “Watch UFC Free,” McKnight notes. The most notorious streaming platforms are designed to ignore copyright concerns.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. As with many aspects of copyright, the only way to get a definitive answer on a fair use question is to have a case go to court and have either a judge or a jury decide the outcome.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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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. Moore, Find Out Who Your Friends Are: A Framework for Determining Whether Employees’ Social Media Followers Follow Them to A New Job, 39 CAMPBELL L. See generally, Christopher A.

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Intepat

JUNE 13, 2024

Introduction Design piracy, particularly in the context of registered designs, poses significant challenges in today’s industrial landscape. According to the Indian Design Act of 2000, only those designs that are functional or used as artistic or property marks are not eligible for protection.

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Not only does the law have few limits with respect to which services are regulated, it is similarly over-broad with respect to what is regulated, featuring definitions that loop all audio-visual content into the law by treating all audio-visual content as a “program” subject to potential regulation. user generated content).

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The ability of computers to recognise content There is no universally accepted, standardised definition of " Automated (or " Automatic ") Content Recognition (ACR) " technologies. its pattern, trade mark or design) to determine whether it is genuine or counterfeit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The “has two main requirements: (1) a mechanism for social media users to file complaints about instances of “hateful conduct” and (2) disclosure of the social media network’s policy for how it will respond to any such complaints.” Law § 394-ccc. Unsurprisingly, the law fails strict scrutiny.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It looks like Jake from State Farm is definitely going to blow through his deductible, as the insurance giant lost its bid to declare game over on a lawsuit brought by video game publisher Atari Interactive. A screenshot from the (now deleted) social media video at the center of the controversy.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

How does an influencer and fashion designer become so despised? Bernstein responded by filing a suit for declaratory judgment , essentially asking the court to rule that WWW’s silhouette design did not infringe on TGE’s design. (If In this case, via alleged copyright infringement. The account and its 2.6

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 18, 2023

The rulings should put a decisive end to the genre of lawsuits over social media supporting terrorists; and the Twitter ruling will cast a negative shadow over other cases alleging that social media services facilitate illegal activity. By definition, recommendations are never “passive” or “neutral.”

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The TTABlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

[Section 2(d) refusal of the word-plus-design mark shown below for, inter alia , "non-metal tiles for countertops, walls, sinks, and floors in bathrooms and kitchens," in view of the registered mark BELLAVITA TILE registered for “Non-metal tiles for walls and floors; ceramic tiles; porcelain tiles; glass tiles.”

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IPilogue

AUGUST 20, 2021

In June 2021, the hashtag #BlackTikTokStrike started trending on multiple social media platforms and was viewed over 7.7 Creators would have better luck with claiming copyright protection if not for Tiktok’s app design. This definition, unfortunately, includes short TikTok dances. million times on TikTok alone.

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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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The TTABlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Board first found that the genus of goods at issue is "wallets,' but it could "by definition, encompass more-narrowly defined goods or a sub-category such as wallets with technological and/or design features." LE Holdings LLC , Cancellation No. 92076013 (January 6, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cheryl S.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

For trademarks, a good place to start is the company’s marketing and promotional materials, website, mobile app, and social media. Don’t overlook company social media accounts, domain names, and toll-free numbers, which may also serve as potential trademarks.

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IPilogue

JULY 23, 2021

This podcast series will definitely appeal to a more niche audience. In this episode, Rebecca Dobson and Steve Waine provide interesting advice, stories, and hypotheticals involving the intersection of IP rights and social media. . “T D on’t be Tardy for this Lawsuit: Copyright & Bad Claims ” by The Bravo Docket.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

We are still developing our travel plans (not as much fun in the COVID era), but we will definitely take advantage of our freedom!]. Comments on CA AB 2273, The Age-Appropriate Design Code Act). Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? Analysis of CA AB587).

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The IPKat

JUNE 6, 2022

CIVC also argued that GB is taking unfair advantage of the reputation of the PDO “Champagne”, and asked the court to order GB to cease use of all logos and advertisement documents with “Champanillo” sign, to cancel the registration for the domain name “champanillo.es” and close all social media accounts with this name.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Trademark Law Before pre-digitalization The US Trademark Office (USPTO) defines a trademark as a word, phrase, design, or symbol that serves to identify and distinguish the products or services you sell apart from those of others. also, Misuse of social media involves using trademarks without authorization to mislead or damage companies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

The court explains this and other differences from Aereo: “Aereo involved a system designed for the sole purpose of transmitting the subject content and which had no plausible utility, in that configuration, other than the transmission of that content, whereas X/Twitter is a social media site with a range of potential uses.”

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 10, 2021

However, the judge stopped short of approving a variety of additional designs featuring the Phanatic character, and left the team’s ability to merchandise the new version of the mascot unresolved for now. H/E), a creative design firm, which in 1984 assigned the copyright in the mascot for a term of “forever.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

AI, a simulation of human intelligence by a computer system designed to perform tasks typically done by human beings, has in just a few short years evolved beyond what was previously believed possible, and has manifested itself in even creating new works of Intellectual Property, such as art, literature, music, etc.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Following this incident, news of Zara selling lungi as ‘check mini skirt’ a few years ago had resurfaced on social media. Considered a part of ethnic wear, Kurtas have different varieties depending on their design and fabric. A few months ago, Gucci was found selling a peculiar outfit named “organic linen kaftan”.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Last year, I wrote about fashion designer Elie Tahari’s unsuccessful attempt to use the de minimis defense to shield it from liability after the company posted an unauthorized copy of a photo on social media. Most definitely. Hit me up in the comments below or on social media @copyrightlately.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

These “bad design” arguments to work around 230 have been rejected repeatedly. In that sense, this case is like the “material support for terrorists” cases against social media services, which have failed on a wide variety of grounds beyond Section 230. ” Section 230. .” Negligence.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The transition from simply turning on the television to logging into accounts such as social media and OTT platforms, has resulted the entertainment industry to witness an astonishing evolution. Such incidents raise concerns among people who entrust their data to digital entertainment platforms.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

After publishing the disputed image on a Chinese social media platform (Xiaohongshu), Plaintiff discovered that Defendant had used the same image to illustrate an article on a different website without permission. Plaintiff then sued Defendant in the BIC.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To create its product, Clearview scraped billions of publicly available photos from websites and social media platforms. The defendants to be required to implement, maintain, regularly review and revise as necessary a threat management program designed to appropriately monitor the defendants’ information networks for threats.

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