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.

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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

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. The launch of the CCB website is the first latest step in starting the new board.

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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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IIPRD

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selection of the suitable Algorithm: The particular task or issue that the AI system is intended to resolve informs the selection of AI algorithms. A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system. Design rights are meant to safeguard a product’s appearance.

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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

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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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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Corsearch

JANUARY 31, 2025

For many brands, the holiday season brings a surge of infringements on across marketplaces and social media. But seasonal infringement also stretches far beyond marketplaces, with social media used as a means to reach a wider audience under less scrutiny from platform operators.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2025

Whether by pure coincidence or meticulous design, each type of offending alleged in the complaint relates to fairly common individual acts that, in isolation, millions of gamers will be familiar with already. Yet this complaint seems to offer more than just an easy win; on the deterrent front, it may offer something for everyone.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

This was an openly accessible symposium, so discussion and commentary was limited to information already in the public record. They’re paying influencers to go on social media and promote them. That said, when discussing future anti-piracy solutions, more novel perspectives were brought up.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 14, 2022

Navigating Brand Protection and Trademarks for Social Media Influencers. Building a brand or business as an influencer on social media is not easy. In this article, we share best practices for social media influencers to protect their brand, reputation, and business through trademark registration and prudent use.

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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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IIPRD

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. One of the most significant methods to safeguard material on social media is through copyright.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it? Scale, not to mention cost, remains the central issue.

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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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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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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

These products are essentially replicas of luxury or designer fragrances, crafted to mimic the scent profile of high-end perfumes at a fraction of the cost. Counterfeit perfumes are unauthorized imitations that not only replicate the scent of a branded perfume but also copy its packaging, bottle design, and branding.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trademark and registered design portfolio It goes without saying: maintaining a comprehensive trademark portfolio is key. In particular, if a product goes viral on any social media platform, it is very likely that counterfeiters will target it.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 25, 2022

Rather than filing a lawsuit against “John Doe” defendants and getting a traditional subpoena, they instead filed for a DMCA subpoena in an attempt to expose the information without having to have a judge approve it. The flag was designed in 1971 by artist Harold Thomas.

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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. 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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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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IPilogue

JUNE 27, 2022

Through Sponsored Stories, advertisers pay Facebook to associate their mark on Facebook’s social media website with users that performed certain social actions in connection with the advertiser (e.g. users who click the “like” button on the advertiser’s Facebook Page).

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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. million visits per month.

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

It informs the customers that you consider yourself the mark’s rightful owner. To safeguard your trademarks adequately, you should track new trademark filings, online use, social media usage of marks, and domain names, which shall alert you to potential conflicts. Send Cease-&-Desist Letters Automatically. Bottom Line.

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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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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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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. In 2009, the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against artist Shepherd Fairey over the famous Obama “Hope” poster that he designed. 1: The Shepard Fairey Dispute.

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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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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. Watermarking , i.e. the ability to add information and embed it directly into a product, signal or digital file.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Background of the case On 26 October 2018, the Estonian company Eco Oil OÜ filed the following EU Registered Design No. The decision The BoA focused its attention on the (unproven) disclosure of prior designs under Article 7 CDR by means of printed screenshots of web pages. 5809746-0001 (the contested RCD).

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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2024

those who buy subscriptions and sell them on to friends, family, and increasingly anyone on social media, at a profit. Manufactured by Danish company Triax, the device is known as a multiswitch and is designed for use in homes or other accomodation where one satellite signal to a single receiver isn’t enough.

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The IPKat

MARCH 29, 2024

This report follows a report on “ The impact of complicit social media influencers on male’s consumption of counterfeit goods in the UK ”, commented by The IPKat here , and a pilot report focused on same matter from the perspective of female consumers, commented on The IPKat here. The report recalls two clarifying examples.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

Before tackling more serious matters, a quick look at legal streaming services’ subscriber agreements provides a wealth of information. It is unlikely that these features will appear on a licensed mainstream service but that doesn’t stop subscribers from desiring them. Subscriber Agreements.

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