Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. Utah argued that the law doesn’t suppress any specific topic.

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IP Tech Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

The categorization of social media accounts into “business” and “personal” accounts was a hot issue a decade ago, when states across the country passed laws to protect employees from invasive employer demands to access or control their personal social media accounts.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Martillo claims that six social media services suspended his accounts because he is an anti-Zionist. The court responds: “the defendants’ social media platforms are not places of ‘public accommodation.’ Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? ” Cites to Lewis v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

It covers some of the basics on open source AI focusing on its definition and legal challenges. The exact definition of what constitutes open source AI is still subject to discussion. Finally, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is currently working on a definition for open source AI. Its “ Open Source AI Definition – draft v.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ever since the massive explosion of content creation that gave rise to social media, content creators worldwide have utilized embedding to showcase and link users to content that otherwise would not have been as readily accessible. This definition amended in the Act is now known as the “Transmit Clause.”

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Michael Geist

JUNE 9, 2023

As noted above, the specific language is “CRTC is directed not to impose regulatory requirements on online undertakings in respect of programs of social media creators, including podcasts”. A key definition is who qualifies as a “social media creator”, since it is their content that is brought into the exclusion.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about social media before making the jump. The basic idea behind Mastodon is to create a decentralized social networking platform that no one entity control. Some Mastodon Basics. It can go a long way to preventing future headaches.

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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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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Between blogs, social media, forums, YouTube and a million other sites, one doesn’t have to be in a writing profession to be a widely read author. In short, plagiarism is almost definitely on the rise, but it’s also much easier to detect. However, we live in an era where absolutely anyone can write and find an audience.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated As they realize the bill’s implications, I’m hoping Minnesota parents will tell their Senators to scrap this effort. What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

I thought the legality of embedding was definitively resolved when the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the “server test” in the Hunley v. Townsquare Media, Inc., Lynk Media LLC v. 14, 2025) Fedun posted three videos to social media and then assigned the copyrights to Lynk Media. 2025 WL 89191 (S.D.N.Y.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

While there are far too many for any single list, here are 5 copyright stories that you should definitely watch in 2022. Several such cases are going on right now and, though we likely won’t see a definitive answer in 2022, it’s going to be a copyright story to watch. 1: The Copyright Small Claims Court.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2024

A couple of years ago, Florida and Texas passed “social media censorship” laws. The laws were not subtle–the bill titles literally told the world that the legislatures were censoring social media. From a drafting standpoint, the laws were a mess.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

With the close of another year upon us, IPWatchdog is returning to an annual feature with its Top 10 list of issued U.S. patents during 2021.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By definition, the overview aims to identify foreign companies and policies that may hurt U.S. Trade Representative asks copyright holders to share input for its Special 301 Report. Based on these recommendations, which center around copyright and piracy problems, the USTR compiles an annual list of countries that deserve extra attention.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 16, 2021

Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York recently denied a motion to dismiss in a copyright dispute involving the unlicensed “embedding” of a social media video. By: Proskauer - Minding Your Business

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The “Informed Consent Action Network,” and its founder Del Bigtree , ran afoul of the social media services’ COVID misinformation policies. ICAN claimed that the social media services took these actions due to government pressure and jawboning, especially pointing the finger at Rep.

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Art Law Journal

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here’s a common scenario on social media for artists: You’re starting to grow a steady online following, but your audience isn’t commenting, liking or sharing your first few posts. So is it time to throw in the towel on social media and focus on other marketing strategies? Wear your heart on your sleeve.

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The French streaming site actively campaigns on social media where it has booked some impressive results. That kind of social media exposure is unprecedented for a pirate site and it definitely helped to get more viewers to the platform. TikTok Views. WishFlix nailed the first part of that equation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Among other problems, the law dictates how “social media platforms” can make their editorial decisions. Fortunately, a Florida federal judge blocked Florida’s social media censorship law as unconstitutional. This is not unique to social media.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 28, 2021

A recent California District Court ruling affirmed that Perfect 10’s ruling applied to the embedding of images from social media onto third party websites. the user name and image, user caption, number of likes, and branding of the social media platform). Amazon.com, Inc., What is Embedding?

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

To combat “fake news,” governments must carefully regulate social media content. For instance, based on a newly enacted law , if social media businesses operating in Germany do not remove unlawful, racist, or defamatory posts within 24 hours, they risk hefty fines.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

For example, a student could write an article for their school paper, post content on social media and then turn in an assignment for their class, all three with different citation standards and norms. Plagiarism standards are inconsistent, and most people find themselves navigating several different standards on a daily basis.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 5, 2022

What if you started using the brand name on social media? And unfortunately, there are bad actors out there who might try to register domain names or other social media names or just mimic what you’re doing. So if you’re using a brand name on social media, now is a good time to protect it.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

General Business Law Section 394-ccc, the 2022 law that requires social media platforms to disclose their editorial policies towards “hateful conduct.” It is definitely counterintuitive to oppose transparency requirements due to our strong regulatory and social norms in favor of transparency.

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Michael Geist

MAY 29, 2024

The bill would mandate age verification technologies that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada says creates concern given missing safeguards , it establishes website blocking that government officials warn could undermine net neutrality and an open Internet, and its broad scope goes beyond pornography websites to include search and social media.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2023

Acting on a decree issued by the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Milan, 12 Italian nationals and one person of Albanian origins, living in several regions of Italy and Germany, were targeted on suspicion of operating social media channels dedicated to pirate IPTV subscription sales/resales.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2023

No doubt some media reports will take the ‘500,000 customers’ comment and run with it but nowhere here does it say that 500,000 lost access to one or more services. The problem is getting people to believe that the threats are real and not just another deterrent message that only applies to other people.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Since music today is so widely transacted online in social media and music platforms, the way people search for it and find the music is via a brand name, and having a registration makes it much easier and cheaper to do take downs on music platforms. That is the definition of what a brand is.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

Tim Pool, the Babylon Bee, and National Religious Broadcasters, which are (respectively): “a social networking app, an active social media content creator, a satirical news website, and a nonpartisan association of Christian communicators.” The plaintiffs in this case are Minds, Inc.,

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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That can’t possibly meet the definition of common sense for many Canadians. A better approach would be to focus on providing parents with filtering software, so that they could better manage their kids’ Internet use and prevent access to content they deem inappropriate.

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Michael Geist

JULY 9, 2024

Indeed, virtually anyone actively calling out antisemitism on social media is by now accustomed to the obscene flurry of replies that at best question the veracity of the reports and at worst traffic in Nazi-style propaganda. The disbelief is seemingly everywhere: evidence of Jewish women sexually assaulted during the Oct.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

If the plaintiff seeks to hold the defendant liable for third-party content–definitely true in this case–the Lemmon ruling make it clear that a “negligent design” framing is still subject to Section 230, no matter how creatively or emphatically the plaintiff points to the service’s first-party design choices.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ever since the massive explosion of content creation that gave rise to social media, content creators worldwide have utilized embedding to showcase and link users to content that otherwise would not have been as readily accessible. This definition amended in the Act is now known as the “Transmit Clause.”

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