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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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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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Second, the CAB wants to massively increase the platform revenues that are calculated as part of the minimum of 4% of search or social media revenues. The draft regulations feature specific numbers for both search and social media, but the CAB didn’t even bother to include a proposed threshold for news aggregators.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Each of these claims seek to “fault[ ] [Snap] for information provided by [a] third part[y]”—messages and photos sent by Guess-Mazock to Doe. Doe’s negligent design claim similarly aims to hold Snap liable for communications exchanged between Doe and Guess-Mazock. Section 230 provides Snap with immunity from these claims.

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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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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business.

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Art Law Journal

APRIL 13, 2022

If you are a non-professional artist who is eager to turn your artistic talents into a career in graphic design, you’ve come to the right place. In this article series, you’ll find valuable information on building and maintaining a career in the creative space, including learning graphic design.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.

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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. Like many times before, ACE – via the MPA – wants Cloudflare to give up information on its customers, 9anime included. At the time of writing the 9animetv.to

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LexBlog IP

MAY 11, 2023

Interesting Patents | Rolex: A New Era in Wristwatch Design: Minimizing Frictional Wear with Innovative Fixing Device by Founders Legal Interesting Patents | Thursday, May 11, 2023 The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants hundreds of new patents every week, showcasing developments in technology and innovation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

The underlying legal principles are not complicated: content rules in TOSes are negative behavioral restrictions on authors’ conduct, not marketing or contractual promises to readers that such content will never appear on the site. It’s not hard to imagine how a negligent design claim could have been structured here.

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Art Law Journal

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this article series, you’ll find valuable information on building and maintaining a career in the creative space. We cover topics including career paths, preparing for interviews, using social media to grow your footprint, networking, and much more. Motion Graphic Design. The work though is completely different.

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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 number of information is enough for hackers to impersonate the individuals for their own benefits and gains.

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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. But the commercial parts of the Guide — specifically, the allegedly rigged ratings of nutritional supplements — are not so connected to this informational section to lose their commercial character.

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Art Law Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In this article series, you’ll find valuable information on building and maintaining a career in the creative space. We cover topics including career paths, preparing for interviews, using social media to grow your footprint, networking, and much more. Today, agencies and design firms come in many shapes and sizes.

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SpicyIP

JULY 6, 2024

: Revisiting Business Method Patents in the Software Industry By Anushka Aggarwal In India, the debate over the patentability of business method inventions has taken on new dimensions with the rise of emerging information and communications technologies. For software, copyright protects the code (Copyright Act, 1957, s.

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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 court gently replies: “Contrary to the government’s suggestion Section 230 immunity is not reserved for social media platforms.” EZ Lynk appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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43(B)log

MARCH 21, 2024

Peacock alleged that Pabst violated consumer protection law by marketing “The Original Olympia Beer” as using naturally filtered, artisan water from Tumwater, Washington (a suburb of Olympia, Washington) “despite the product being brewed elsewhere in the country using lower quality water and brewing methods.” Pabst Brewing Co.,

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Dragons' Den

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In this week’s blog, I’ll focus on two pitches and consider what is patentable and the difference between designs and patents. Alex explained that his company’s algorithm takes an artist’s data and then turns it into targeted and practical marketing. Zoe told the Dragons that she has applied for a ‘design utility patent’.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

” However, Wallshoppe does not allege Defendant knew of the specific acts of infringement at issue here—Sienna Lewis selling products featuring the Palm Design on Defendant’s website. ” The post 2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Buzzfeed, Inc.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For website operators trying to get information into the public eye, the last thing they need are legal threats claiming that they’ve infringed someone’s copyrights. Trauma-Informed Pedagogy – Barnard College / Columbia University. DMCA Scam Misleads By Abusing Real Information.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Nor do allegations of an application’s lack of identify and age verification remove the “publisher” designation. Congress addressed the right to publish the speech of others in the Information Age when it enacted the [CDA] … ” [Cite to Doe v. Agreeing with the majority opinion in Force v. cite to LW v.

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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. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts.

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43(B)log

JULY 6, 2022

Marketing Sales Practices & Prods. Plaintiffs moved to certify four classes of purchasers of JUUL products on “theories that defendants’ marketing of JUUL was unlawfully deceptive, JUUL was unlawfully marketed to youth, and JUUL products are not fit for ordinary use.” In Re Juul Labs, Inc., I don't even have a RICO tag!

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Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

JULY 7, 2020

Your IP, including your patents, industrial designs and trademarks, is at the center of your company’s value. Have you designed a new product with a distinctive name, product shape, physical design or packaging? Two things that startups never seem to have enough of are: time and money. Document the date you first used it!

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The author presents a case pending before the Supreme Court Patent that addresses this question ( Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc.,

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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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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

Advertising can take many forms, including statements about a company’s products on websites and social media platforms. In this 60-minute webinar, designed exclusively for in-house counsel, you will learn how you can protect your company against legal challenges based on its advertising practices.

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Corsearch

APRIL 19, 2023

Read insights from fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger and a leading social media consultant on how brands can raise awareness of the dangers of counterfeits and turn this into a positive message for change. For all brands and marketers, the purpose driven element is critical. And for brands, it’s the same.”

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Social media (aka Facebook) were not a part of the conversation. This raises the question: does the press publishers’ right apply to social media? Information society service providers. While social media were not explicitly singled out, they seem to comfortably fall within the ISSP definition.

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IPilogue

JULY 23, 2021

Although I do not follow The Real Housewives, I still found this episode incredibly entertaining and informative. . “I S ocial Media & Your IP Rights ” by Innovation Talks. T he Progress Pride Flag, and the Realities of IP ” by Input Doc: Marketing Interviews. “T I P Protection in the Cannabis Industry ” by CBD School.

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Michael Geist

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From an expression perspective, most intuitively understand that links to other services is simply legal expression that is little different than providing an address or contact information. Twitter may have caved to public pressure on the link policy, yet the approach is grounded in the principles that underlie Bill C-18.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It could also undercut the commercial market for books and works already created; this is because, on demand, the Products are able not only to summarize books in detail, chapter by chapter, but also to regenerate the text of books (§ I.B.110-111). Google , which recognized property interest in personal information). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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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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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Aside from living up to the significant functional claims in its marketing, the big questions revolve around legality. Before tackling more serious matters, a quick look at legal streaming services’ subscriber agreements provides a wealth of information. Subscriber Agreements.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

VIP Products sells a toy that imitates the trademarks of Jack Daniel’s Properties using a design similar to the company’s whisky label and bottle shape, but with the name “Bad Spaniels”, a spaniel’s face, and poop jokes. Jack Daniel’s contends this design infringes its trademarks and tarnishes its brand. It is clear after Matal v.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

DECEMBER 8, 2022

But the list of territorial and customer restrictions is now more clearly structured and there is greater protection for exclusive and selective distributors and more flexibility in the design of distribution models. Read more. .

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