Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The court’s ruling raises interesting, but troubling, questions about any government actor’s ability to enable reader comments on social media. but the State Police cannot “block Tanner from participating in its designated public forum based on his profane private messages.” The Manually Deleted Comment.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That decision could have significant implications for this case as well as all other First Amendment challenges of states’ efforts to censor social media.] The analogy is an imperfect one—social media operators are arguably less involved in the curation of their websites’ content than these traditional examples.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Social Media Sales Attract Attention According to information released by Spain’s National Police on Monday, a broadcaster’s representative filed a complaint after spotting a profile on social media platforms offering pirate IPTV subscriptions.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For example, from the intro: “Texas has designated the Platforms common carriers; they no longer have a right to discriminate against different views in their role as public conduits.” Paxton, the Challenge to Texas’ Social Media Censorship Law appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

The Act’s prohibitions focus solely on the conduct of the covered website—the website’s use of certain design features on minors’ accounts—and impose liability irrespective of the content those design features may be used to disseminate. Reyes appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Reyes , 2024 WL 3510919 (D.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Influencer Marketing” and “Social Media Brand Endorsement” have become big business. Our law firm represents some of the business’s largest social media marketing agencies and influencers. This means they also own and need to license the copyright to the brand.

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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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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” But, as popular as the app is, it has also been highly divisive with many fashion designers accusing it of selling inferior rip-offs of their work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

A victim’s daughter sued Facebook, alleging that Facebook’s “design and architecture” radicalized Roof, and that should disqualify Facebook for Section 230. As usual, the filing of the complaint got significant news coverage, but those same media outlets are apparently uninterested in the denouement.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 8, 2024

“Courts within the Second Circuit have routinely found that social media websites and online matching services are interactive computer services.” Try as he might to make his claims about the way Instagram is designed, his claims are inherently grounded in third-party content posted to the app. Facebook , Herrick v.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a bridal designer signed an employment agreement that barred her from competing with her employer – JLM Couture Inc. The agreement also prevented the designer from using variations of her name to market bridal wear. JLM) – following her employment. Circuit Judge Michael H.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Introduction What separates long-established print and electronic media from social media is that it comes along with a bunch of techniques for its usage. These are tools that shaped social media to be more significant than the long-established medias.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The victims sued social media companies for allegedly radicalizing the shooter by exposing him to third-party content. As usual nowadays, the plaintiffs relied heavily on product design theories to overcome the obvious Section 230 defense. Case Citation : Jones v.

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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

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC / AB2273, just signed by Gov. For example, it’s been repeatedly shown that some social media features provide net benefit to a majority or plurality of users, but other subcommunities of minors don’t benefit from those features. Newsom ) is an example of such a bill.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 21, 2022

You can see in the video version and the accompanying visual that Chad Barr and his wonderful team have designed, which shows that by consistently providing for your brand, like consistently watering your plants, and doing the following things, your brand will be positioned for wonderful growth and success. Great content.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 21, 2023

Specifically, companies can use AI to generate marketing materials, social media posts, product design, and more. Generative AI is becoming increasingly popular across various industries due to its ability to improve efficiency and creativity.

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Corsearch

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Table of contents : • What is the grey market? • Supply chain inefficiencies: Misallocation of products or product returns can lead to grey market sales.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Rather, Lizzo apparently saw a social media meme about being 100% that b h and then added it to her song. Unlike patents and copyrights, trademark law is not designed to reward the creative endeavor of invention or authorship. The original line in the song is “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that b h.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, it opened the door to potential liability for all tools that help content creators make their content, basically suggesting that the tools would be negligently designed in ways that expose the tool authors to liability for personal injuries. The Lemmon court disagrees with the lower court in Maynard v.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 26, 2024

The European Court of Justice affirmed an earlier decision of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in a case where Puma was attempting to gain a European Union (EU) Community Design on its “Puma Creeper Shoe.” By: Dickinson Wright

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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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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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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2022

It was important to many of Mark’s fans though, and with huge numbers flooding to social media to call for a Toei boycott, the situation had already spiraled out of control. Content ID was designed to tackle full-blown piracy but has zero ability to determine context or intent – malicious, well-meaning, or otherwise.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Yesterday, I covered AB 2273, the Age-Appropriate Design Code. Both Florida and Texas included editorial transparency mandates in their social media censorship laws, and I’m baffled that the California legislature thinks those #MAGA laws are good sources of inspiration??? A quick summary of the bill’s lowlights: * * *.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 30, 2024

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. The post Google Can Terminate Account Based on CSAM Allegations–Baker v.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

The dramatic rise in e-commerce in the last two decades saw many brand and business owners struggling to safeguard their Intellectual Property (IP) assets in cyberspace, starting from domain names and then going onto social media handles. Market Reach & Presence. Market Reach & Presence.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 26, 2023

In the face of legislation designed to thwart its growth, seizures, prosecutions, dozens of arrests and countless prison sentences have done little to prevent piracy. In common with 9anime, over a third of allanime’s traffic comes from the United States, assisted by social media referrals, the majority on YouTube.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

The court summarizes the allegations: Roblox has a virtual currency designed for use on its platform called “Robux.” The court cites the Social Media Addiction ruling for the proposition that “social media companies do have a duty to exercise due care in managing their platforms.” Negligence.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Some of the most useful contexts in which these technologies are used are digital media (such as Merpel's extensive use of Shazam to recognise his favourite music), e-commerce or cloud computing. its pattern, trade mark or design) to determine whether it is genuine or counterfeit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite the rhetorical moves to position the lawsuit about the defendants’ design choices, this is actually an easy case. ” This is the latest entry in the confusing jurisprudence about when 230 applies to first-party marketing representations that are rendered untrue by users’ activities. ICS Provider. Despite Doe v.

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