Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Nicklen “urged his social media followers to consider the ‘haunting’ and ‘soul-crushing scene’ and to take steps to mitigate the harms of climate change.” Use of content posted to social media has generated many posts on this blog, starting with AFP v. Case citation : Nicklen v. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. ,

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In an era of information overload, attorneys can use social media strategically — from making infographics to leveraging targeted advertising — to cut through the noise and establish a reputation among current and potential clients, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

” BBC : Facebook’s growth not linked to psychological harm, study finds * Science : How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? Plaintiffs have not submitted the Resort’s pages on third-party travel websites or presented social media posts. Kallinen v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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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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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ever since the massive explosion of content creation that gave rise to social media, content creators worldwide have utilized embedding to showcase and link users to content that otherwise would not have been as readily accessible. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 6, 2024

More recently, a strategy that has been seen only a handful of times before, has been playing out on social media. Contrasting Images In many respects the fourth edition of P.CoK’s white paper is much like the first three in the series; the report is informative, detailed, and presented in a formal tone.

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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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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 10, 2022

First off today, Ryan Naumann at Radar Online reports that photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against the rapper Nas claiming copyright infringement over a post on social media. The photo in question showed Nas hanging out with the deceased rapper Tupac outside a New York club in July 1993.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For more information about that, search our website for anything about brainstorming tips or the spectrum of trademarks. For more information about what that entails and what the options are and the details, search for comprehensive trademark search on our website. Acquire relevant domain names and social media handles.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 30, 2022

Trends on social media move so quickly, but this one has lingered, and it’s about red flags. Because it’s related to social media, I only learned about it because of my children and my family, but a lot of posts about red flags use the red flag icon or emoji, and then warning signs about a particular topic.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet even the consent order sends a signal to government ministers and others speaking on behalf of the government that limiting public access to Twitter or social media feeds may violate Canadians’ Charter rights to access government information. The order also includes a $20,000 cost award to Levant.

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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. Some Mastodon Basics. It has to be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.

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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.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2024

INTRODUCTION The entertainment and media sector is experiencing a continuous and increasing influence on social media with each passing day. However, between now and then social media influence also has some problems. 3] In the Indian media and entertainment sector, defamation cases are routine.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 26, 2024

Report Streaming Piracy Campaign To address the ongoing problem, anti-piracy group FACT has teamed up with the Crimestoppers charity to launch a new social media campaign. Information provided anonymously to Crimestoppers will be thoroughly investigated by FACT and could lead to further actions, including prosecution,” they add.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech. Reddit Shared IP Address Recent legal activity shows that Reddit doesn’t intend to automatically comply with all user information requests. According to the film companies, a response never arrived.

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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. From a drafting standpoint, the laws were a mess.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. information–Children’s Health Defense v. Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”? Zuckerberg.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 21, 2024

Cooperation, Coordination and Information Sharing The Commission says a key aim of the Toolbox is to promote and facilitate effective cooperation between rightsholders, providers of intermediary services, and competent authorities, by promoting good practice and use of appropriate tools and new technologies.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Barbera filed the lawsuit, alleging that Cyrus posted a photo he took on her various social media presences. In August, Japanese publishers filed a motion in a California court to have US-based technology companies turn over information related to a series of manga piracy sites.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 21, 2022

In fact, we are aware that at least one of the Doe defendants posted a message online bragging about being named as a Doe Defendant and claiming that Activision will never find him,” Meyer informed the court. Without a doubt, the list of companies is extremely broad.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When a DMCA notice was filed, even if it was done using Facebook’s own DMCA form, the company would request additional information. This would happen if even all the information was provided in the original notice and, to make matters worse, Facebook would often still refuse to honor the notice after the hurdles had been jumped through.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

They asked about the descriptions on the FDN-hosted CCA website, but were informed that those were owned by FDN. In short, this means that, if you post your work to a web page with social media buttons, an open license or even just tools to aid in printing or emailing, the work is likely considered to be published.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 14, 2023

This view is bolstered by a recent Supreme Court decision in favor of Twitter and other social media platforms, which held that they’re not liable for terrorist messages. Supreme Court recently held that the social media platforms aren’t liable for ISIS terrorists, who used their services to recruit and raise funds.

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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. Snap stores and utilizes incredible amounts of personal information from every Oregon user in a manner and to a degree that jurisdictional jurisprudence could not have imagined as little as ten years ago. These plaintiffs sued in Oregon.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 7, 2023

Once obtained, these are served on service providers, mostly Cloudflare, requesting personal information on pirate site operators. While the quality of supplied information varies, the number of applications suggests that the world’s largest entertainment companies do indeed obtain valuable intelligence from the process.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 28, 2023

Find a chink in the armor, obtain information, and then exploit every possible resource to remove anonymity. A Google search will return information retrieved from the open internet, but that’s just one tool out of the hundreds available to OSINT investigators, including those working in the anti-piracy niche.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 9, 2023

Since this necessarily involves the collection of personal data, companies like the Premier League sometimes disclose the type of information they collect as part of their privacy policies. This information spans the most basic of identifiers, such as a name, through to suspects’ leisure time activities.

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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

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. Their argument was apparently strong enough that the clerk signed and issued the subpoena against the company.

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

questioned claims by “environmental alarmists” and elicited a similar response by Facebook’s fact-checking program — it was classified as “partly false information.” To combat “fake news,” governments must carefully regulate social media content. The second video, “Are We Doomed?,”

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TorrentFreak

MAY 11, 2024

This information was shared with the world by the popular scooper ‘CanWeGetSomeToast’ and turned out to be accurate, however, as evidenced by the title change a month later. That includes names, physical addresses, IP addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and payment account information. CanWeGetSomeToast?

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many people promote the free service on social media, without any enforcement action getting in the way. The grounds for the seizures remain unclear and no obvious information to explain why the Postal Inspection Service has a leading role. ” they informed us.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This particularly applies to people who are happy to install updates to any software that isn’t open source or is delivered without informative changelogs or indeed any at all. Developer ‘Takes a Break’ From Social Media. New Version of Applinked Just Grew 10x in Size.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2024

For roughly a quarter-century, rightsholders have sent copyright infringement notices to ISPs, informing them about alleged copyright infringements carried out by subscribers. In a detailed memorandum opinion, the court concludes that the Supreme Court ruling in the social media case doesn’t directly translate to the matter at hand.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 24, 2023

When BBB fans aren’t glued to their TVs waiting for the drama to unfold, many can be found on social media, usually speculating about what comes next, based on what they’ve just seen. According to an internal communication leaked to local media outlet TVPop , the position may have changed for BBB23.

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