Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Note also how governments will weaponize mandatory TOS disclosures, i.e., if you didn’t tell the public them, then they wouldn’t have acted as promises to consumers, but since we compelled you to tell the public, we can now treat them as enforceable promises. No, and it’s not even close. Six4Three v. . * Kallinen v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Based on the Complaint’s allegations, it appears the named Defendants – a private social media company and its legal department – are not subject to liability under Section 1983. 2020) (internet media websites are not government actors under the First Amendment)… Prior blog posts on Perez’s lawsuit ( 1 , 2 ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. Nevertheless, the plaintiffs argued that the law “evidences a strong public policy to protect Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms.” appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital era where social media is at the core of all business, influencers have emerged as pivotal players in the world of marketing, wielding significant influence over their followers and the brands they represent.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 18, 2022

The federal government is prosecuting Wiley for drug dealing. ” The government seeks to treat these videos as evidence of Wiley’s involvement in the drug trade. ” The government seeks to treat these videos as evidence of Wiley’s involvement in the drug trade. Wiley objected. Implications. July 8, 2022).

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Subsequently, the Committee published a report which set out a number of recommendations to Government [ Katpost here ] that included equitable remuneration for streaming, contract adjustments as well as referrals to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).

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Trademark and Copyright Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2021

Social media platforms present countless opportunities for companies looking to connect to consumers and clients in real time. Foley Hoag will present a 60-minute webinar offering guidance on social media issue spotting for in-house legal practitioners, with a focus on intellectual property, publicity rights and advertising.

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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. NetChoice appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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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IIPRD

JUNE 26, 2024

A social media influencer is someone who creates content based on their niche in various social media platforms where they deliver information by uploading in the mediums of long format videos, short format videos or reels, static posts and stories.

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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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Michael Geist

APRIL 14, 2023

Using the Access to Information Act, I have now obtained a copy of the government’s internal estimates for the economic and production impact of Bill C-11 ( methodology , memorandum , PPT ), which confirm many of my suspicions. This conclusion raises both the economic and cultural impact of the bill.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. With respect to the social media services’ status as publishers, the court says: the plaintiff’s RICO claims depend on Twitter and Facebook’s acting as publishers. The complaint.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

However, those arguments were more theoretical than empirical; there weren’t a lot of high-profile examples of a mass-market consumer service deploying this strategy. 7) Governments loot Google and Facebook under the pretense of “saving” journalism. The money doesn’t go to the government. Incredible.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 1, 2022

Last month, the Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament endorsed the provisional agreement previously reached with EU governments on the Digital Services Act (DSA). Both the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are expected to be put for a final vote in Parliament later this month.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The government has yet to release its final regulations for the Online News Act , but recent comments from News Media Canada seemed to suggest that it is hoping to find common ground with Google , stating that it supports the company’s proposed amendments to Bill C-18 draft regulations.

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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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Without First Amendment guardrails in the EU, the DSA represents a comprehensive government intrusion into the editorial processes of UGC services–with surely more intrusions to come. The post New Essay Comparing “Due Process” Approaches in the DMCA and DSA appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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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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Michael Geist

AUGUST 8, 2023

More notably, the media outlets argument for Meta’s “substantial control” of the market simply doesn’t make any sense. They argue that because it is the largest social media company, “Meta effectively has substantial control over access to Canadian news and also, more generally, on the news industry in Canada.”

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 3, 2023

While stakeholders and experts struggled to comprehend this ban, on October 5, 2022, word spread that Nigeria’s Federal Government had sued Meta over marketing and was seeking 30 billion naira (about 70 million dollars). The Nigerian government’s attempt to address this fact may be taking on too much.

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43(B)log

JULY 20, 2023

Since early 2020, Defendant Nepute and Quickwork have used several platforms, including social media, emails, and radio, to tout the purported benefits of Vitamin D and zinc and to promote Wellness Warrior supplements. ” The government can show either falsity/misleadingness or lack of substantiation to prevail.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. A reminder that if the US government had prosecuted the defendants for violating the Clean Air Act, Section 230 would have been irrelevant (it doesn’t apply to federal criminal prosecutions). It doesn’t work. Publication of Third-Party Content.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 23, 2023

Bill C-18, the Online News Act, received royal assent yesterday, but any celebrations by the groups who lobbied for unprecedented government intervention into the news sector must surely have been tempered by the reality that quickly emerged. The mistake was not that the government pursued Internet regulation.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 20, 2024

The government talked up its accomplishments, but on the digital policy front there was little to promote. While there were no specific digital policy bills enacted over the past ten months, the government is moving ahead with its digital services tax that could take effect within days and will likely draw the ire of the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Government Jawboning Doesn’t Turn Internet Services into State Actors–Doe v. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”?

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Intepat

JUNE 19, 2024

In the Indian jurisdiction, various forms of evidence are presented in court daily and the field of evidence law within our country is governed under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The Registrar of Trade Marks , further highlights the importance of documentary evidence in establishing the well-known status of a trademark.

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Michael Geist

MAY 18, 2023

The CRTC’s documents suggest that either it already knows what the government is going to say or it doesn’t care. To pick just one of many examples, the Commission is consulting on the meaning of “social media service”: Q5. How should the Commission define “social media service”? Who will be left?

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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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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. Social Media Benefits Minors.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The parties’ products sell for millions of dollars to large corporations or government agencies, and there are many other vendors besides them. Appian disseminated the report through its sales team, social media, and other marketing. The BPM market is large. Defendant BPM.com reported on the BPM industry.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Each year around the end of January, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes its annual review of so-called ‘notorious markets’ known for their connections to intellectual property crime. government. After an unexplained absence in 2021, YTS.mx reappeared in the report last year.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 8, 2023

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez appeared last night before the Senate committee studying Bill C-18, facing repeated questions about how his government will respond if Internet platforms such as Facebook block news sharing in response to bill’s system of mandated payments for links. This just isn’t true. How to reconcile?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2022

This is one of the dozens of lawsuits alleging that social media services addict kids. In a statement sure to spook every social media service, the court finds “the forum selection clause invalid because it is procedurally unconscionable, substantively unconscionable, and unenforceable against a minor.”

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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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