Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2024

I never blogged the dual state and federal rulings in the Social Media Addiction cases from last Fall. To resolve this motion, the court must apply the heterogeneous laws of 13 different states. A shoutout to the law clerks who sorted through all of this. It doesn’t work. 4:22-md-03047-YGR (N.D.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Canadian government plans to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in search results and when used to prioritize the display of content on search engines and social media services. AI is widely used by both search and social media for a range of purpose that do not involve ChatGPT-style generative AI.

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 28, 2024

By: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media Fake reviews are a significant problem for the big e-commerce platforms, given that a robust customer review system is crucial to modern e-commerce business models.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 29, 2024

Concerns about the impact of social media on youth have been brewing for a long time, but in recent months a new battleground has emerged: the courts, who are home to lawsuits launched by school boards seeking billions in compensation and demands that the social media giants change their products to better protect kids.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. And as expected, the court indeed enjoined the law on First Amendment grounds.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 10, 2024

In response to the public criticism of the bill, Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne has suggested that concerns about it extending to general purpose social media sites is overstated since the intent is to target adult content sites.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“Moy held himself out as a Chicago-area law enforcement officer when selling the Service,” the lawsuit adds, referencing the images below. “Moy’s resellers were informed that he was a law enforcement officer and that message was spread in the Telegram groups, including by group moderators working for Moy.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 13, 2024

The public outcry over the Online Streaming Act is largely in the rear view mirror as the law is now at the CRTC facing years of regulatory and court battles. It allows the CRTC to prescribe user-uploaded programs on a social media service in multiple different situations. Subsection 4.1(2) Section 4.2 is even broader.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post. Topping my list this year is a July 2024 ruling that threatens to upset decades of settled law and destabilize U.S.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Enforced by Law: Individuals can take legal action against those who violate their right of publicity. states, but laws vary regarding duration after death, assignability, and inheritance. California recognizes both a statutory and common law Right of Publicity, both of which can be asserted in the same lawsuit. 4 (9th Cir.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Social media influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford believes so, as she recently sued fellow social media influencer Alyssa Sheil in Texas Federal Court, in what is now known as the sad beige lawsuit.. Can you protect a personal aesthetic or vibe? By: Clark Hill PLC

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

Utah passed a terrible law claiming to be “for the kids,” which are increasingly prevalent at the state level. NetChoice challenged the law in court primarily based on the First Amendment, but NetChoice also claimed that Section 230 preempts the latter three functions. As a result, Section 230 isn’t the natural fit.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2024

June 14, 2024) The post Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? 1 Hotel appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel West Hollywood LLC , 2024 WL 3015504 (C.D. Be Careful!–Khachatryan –Khachatryan v.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Law enforcement operations targeting pirate sites and services are often enthusiastically described as ‘large-scale’ or ‘major’ If reports emerging from authorities in Italy hold true, describing the international operation that culminated early this morning as massive, wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Today’s social media users see copyright conflicts on a regular basis, but probably due to the way copyright is enforced, tend to view images and text as faiir game when compared to movies and music. The belief that somehow everything is free on the internet was widespread in the late 1990s.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 22, 2024

NFL vs. Pirates Ideally, online services should be required by law to remove infringing content “instantaneously or near-instantaneously”, the sports companies argued. This includes social media platforms, where pirate streams are often openly advertised.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 2, 2025

The same goes for Facebook and Instagram, but the stakes are significantly higher when banned social media platforms enter the equation. On March 25, the State Duma adopted amendments to federal laws “On Combating Extremist Activity” and “On Advertising.”

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 1, 2024

Though many websites have attempted to prohibit AI data scraping of their content through their terms of use, a federal court clarified this year that the extent to which public data may be scraped from social media platforms should be governed by federal copyright law. By: ArentFox Schiff

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 7, 2025

Class 3: cosmetics and cleaning preparations Class 5: pharmaceutical products Class 9: electrical and scientific apparatus (includes both software (downloadable or physical software on a disc or drive) and hardware) Class 12: vehicles Class 14: jewelry Class 15: musical instruments Class 16: paper goods and printed matter (includes anything that’s (..)

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A recent lawsuit in Texas highlights the challenges social media influencers face in protecting their intellectual property.

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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. This gives the benefit of both having a local social network and the benefit of broad interoperability.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 2, 2022

Much of the language was written well before widespread adoption of social media, and much of that language was vague even then. However, it arrives at a very significant intersection, one that includes the largest social media platform in the world and an ongoing push for DMCA reform. Bottom Line.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 21, 2025

NBA teams like the Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets are even weighing in, worried that social media posts from years ago could be used as grounds for lawsuits. A petition is calling for the Supreme Court to decide on the validity of the discovery rule, which allows copyright claims long after the alleged infringement.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 21, 2025

NBA teams like the Indiana Pacers and Denver Nuggets are even weighing in, worried that social media posts from years ago could be used as grounds for lawsuits. A petition is calling for the Supreme Court to decide on the validity of the discovery rule, which allows copyright claims long after the alleged infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 7, 2022

2: Senate Passes Bill to Strengthen Copyright Law, Prohibits Online Duplication, Rebroadcasting without Consent. Next up today, Vanguard reports that the Nigerian Senate has passed a bill that would reform the nation’s copyright law and add new penalties for those that broadcast any digital or online works.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I love a great meal, I love supporting small local businesses, and I have a connection to the restaurant industry: my wife and my brother-in-law own two restaurants. I love restaurants for many reasons. I’ve seen firsthand the power of protecting a restaurant brand.

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Michael Geist

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’ve described Bill S-210 , the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act , as the most dangerous Internet bill you’ve never heard of as it contemplates measures that raise privacy concerns, website blocking, and extend far beyond pornography sites to include search and social media.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 3, 2024

To further combat illegal IPTV services, FACT has also issued takedown notices to various social media sites and online marketplaces. If you’re supplying or using illicit streaming devices or illegal IPTV subscriptions, take this as a clear warning: you are breaking the law and risk facing serious consequences.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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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. Second, consider the way sites are supposed to comply with the law, by establishing age verification systems.

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Likelihood of Confusion

MARCH 12, 2025

On the two-year anniversary of my joining Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP, a law firm predominantly focused on construction law, I’ve written a blog post, as a guest of high-octane social-media-juicing lawyer Christopher Hill at his Construction Law Musings blog.

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Michael Geist

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By contrast, the inclusion of registration requirements for a wide range of undertakings, including some podcast services, online news sites, adult content sites, and social media left some characterizing it as a podcast registry or part of “one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes.” So what’s the reality?

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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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

First off today, Meghann Cuniff at Law & Crime reports that Miley Cyrus is the latest celebrity to face a lawsuit from New York photographer Robert Barbera, causing her to join the ranks of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. Most celebrities have opted to settle their cases.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 20, 2025

On the same day last week, federal judges in the Southern District of New York issued a pair of decisions that highlight the persistent legal uncertainty publishers and websites in the Second Circuit face when embedding content from social media platforms. Townsquare Media, Inc. Townsquare Media, Inc. In Richardson v.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 10, 2025

Premier Aquascapes, an Indiana landscaping company, operates multiple social media accounts, including premiereaquascapes ” on Facebook, “ @PremiereAqua ” on X (formerly Twitter), and “ @premiereaqua ” on Facebook. copyright laws.

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