Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Thus, it would compel those platforms to disseminate anything and everything with a “viewpoint,” including pro-Nazi speech, medical misinformation, terrorist propaganda, and foreign government disinformation. This kind of argumentation is how a government actor disingenuously repackages censorship. Amicus Briefs. Text of HB 20.

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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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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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Patently-O

MARCH 16, 2024

This recent decision from the Supreme Court case grapples with the issue of when a public official’s social media activity constitutes state action for purposes of a First Amendment claim under 42 U.S.C. I’ve been following the case as part of my work on internet and media law issues. by Dennis Crouch Lindke v.

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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

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. Have a Designated Agent to Receive Notices of Copyright Infringement. Some Mastodon Basics.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020 (CASE Act). The website features information about the CCB, updates on the process, and users can register a CCB Designated Service Agent to receive notices and communication from the CCB. This includes works originally uploaded to social media.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Other Posts Curing the Rare: Government Issues Tender to Acquire 17 Patented Rare Disease Medicines The threshold for procuring 127 medicines, including drugs for rare diseases, was raised by the Ministry of Finance in its August 9 circular. Government invites comments on the draft Commercial Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

With Bill C-11 in the final stretch – Senate approval could come this week – the government finally provided a more detailed explanation for rejecting the Senate’s user content regulation fix. It is sad that as the bill nears passage, the government doesn’t seem to understand or misleads on the impact of its own legislation.

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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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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Despite repeated assurances from the government that “users are out, platforms are in”, the reality is that the bill kept the door open to regulating such content. ii) is required to be registered with the Commission but does not provide a social media service. The language in the bill is clear: Section 4.2

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Michael Geist

APRIL 7, 2022

In doing so, it eviscerates the claim that there is a tangible connection between the requirement to pay for the value of news articles on social media and search platforms (called digital news intermediaries or DNI’s in the bill). Millions of Canadians choose to access media through search and social media.

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Michael Geist

MAY 16, 2024

For those new to the bill, the government has called it “fundamentally flawed” since it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns through mandated age verification technologies, website blocking, and extends far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC / AB2273, just signed by Gov. The idea is that society benefits from more, and better, innovation if innovators don’t need the government’s approval. This is unfortunate because those bills can harbor ill-advised policy ideas. Newsom ) is an example of such a bill.

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SpicyIP

JULY 27, 2021

We’re pleased to inform you that the Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University Delhi is inviting applications for various research positions. About the Centre for Communication Governance. For further details, please see the announcement below. Call for Applications: Research Positions at CCG.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

According to their filing, the section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that governs such subpoenas doesn’t just apply to web hosts, but also to internet service providers like Centurylink. 3: Australian Government Buys Copyright to Aboriginal Flag in $20m Deal. The flag was designed in 1971 by artist Harold Thomas.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But given a bill that envisions government-backed censorship, mandates age verification to use search engines or social media sites, and creates a framework for court-ordered website blocking, there is a need to pay attention. The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne , is not a government bill.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Its AI is designed to detect and prevent crimes. Clearview’s AI crawls the internet and can access, download, and store any image uploaded to social media. Many social media companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have accused Clearview of utilizing user images without authorization.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, because of state sovereign immunity, it’s technically not possible to sue a state government or any of their components in a federal court. According to Unicolors, the retailers infringed on one of their designs and sold various goods with it. Under the current law, all copyright matters are federal.

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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

APRIL 3, 2024

When installed on a car, they suppress or bypass emission controls designed to protect the environment. The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. It doesn’t work. Publication of Third-Party Content.

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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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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He dismissed American’s claims for breach of user agreement, conditions of carriage (the rules governing air travel), and tortious interference with contract, ruling they were barred by the statute of limitations. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Recently, Delhi High Court granted an interim injunction to Zydus against social media influencer Prashant Desai’s allegedly disparaging post on nutritional health drinks. SpicyIP Intern Manya Gupta analysis the Court’s rationale on disparagement and assesses the implication of this order on free speech.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In an injunction application dated December 2, 2021, Nintendo requested a website blocking order under section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. It targeted six major ISPs (BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media) demanding that they block subscriber access to five domains carrying NSW2U and NSWROM branding.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 26, 2022

What it does, however, is open the door to collaboration with intermediaries, governments, and law enforcement agencies in other countries. Collaborating with Governments and Law Enforcement. The same strategy applies to governments and law enforcement. And governments are beginning to listen,” Van Voorn notes.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A little under two years ago, the federal government shut down Gears-branded IPTV services operated by Bill Omar Carrasquillo (aka Omi in a Hellcat). As the government works to take possession of those assets in a civil process, the long-awaited criminal indictment has now landed. IRS and FBI agents seized “at least” $5.2m

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2024

How the AADC Came to Be With a growing number of children using the Internet, and the rising number of hours children spend online, federal and state governments try to protect these children from the harms of Internet use, by limiting the collection and use of their data as well as by limiting the content to which the minors are exposed.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Canadian government similarly believes that certain links posted by users – namely links to news articles posted on Facebook and Google – create unfair competition since the Internet platforms are competing with Canadian news outlets for the same readers and the same advertisers. negotiated or arbitrated licence).

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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. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v. NutriSearch Corp., 2021 WL 221878 (9th Cir Jan. Wired : How Covid Gums Up the Court System. * Les Giblin LLC v. La Marque, 2021 WL 1997376 (D. Once again, the Court disagrees.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 26, 2025

Union of India The Delhi HC passed a slew of directions to the Union of India including directing the Union Government to allocate 974 crore to the National Fund for Rare Diseases (NFRD). The plaintiff claimed to have adopted the trademarks in 2006, acquired a registered design in 2019, and built significant goodwill for his products.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

TPG aggregates and collects information from the most prominent rewards programs and provides a series of rankings and recommendations designed to help maximize your rewards points. AA’s terms and conditions says that all disputes arising under its agreements will be governed by the Northern District of Texas. Thus, the Points Guy.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The site is designed to be user-friendly while remaining resilient to enforcement measures. EPAG Domainservices Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands / Cloudflare libgen.li With no other viable options left, the publishers filed a motion for a default judgment in their favor. Cloudflare libgen.ee Identity Digital Inc.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

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? Big Ruling for Free Speech: Most of Florida’s Social Media Censorship Law (SB 7072) Remains Enjoined–NetChoice v. Analysis of CA AB587).

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The picture of a boy, Yusuf Alabi with his arms wide open and standing in front of the campaign convoy of one of the popular presidential candidates, Peter Obi of the Labour Party , went viral across social media. The photographer, Esther Umoh called this person out for copyright infringement on social media platform “X”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

I’m ignoring the complicating effects of various social media censorship laws that may require Internet services to enforce their TOSes as written, a requirement I think is unconstitutional). It’s not hard to imagine how a negligent design claim could have been structured here. Case citation : Freethinker v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

“Identifying content of social media users requires monitoring third-party content. Plaintiffs try to avoid Section 230 immunity, insisting, in the Lemmon lingo, that they are seeking to hold Snap liable for Snap’s actions and negligent design. Not disputed. Publisher/Speaker Claims. ” Third-Party Content.

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