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Regulations and Restrictions for AI Facial Recognition Tech in Canada

IPilogue

Shannon Flynn is a Guest Writer and the Managing Editor of Rehack Magazine. 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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The Digital Age of Journalism: My Placement at “The Globe and Mail”

IPilogue

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, a nationally-distributed newspaper with one of the largest circulations in Canada. The newspaper’s print and digital formats reach over 6 million readers every week, with Report on Business magazine reaching over 2.5 million readers every issue in print and digital.

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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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Unauthorized Photographs: The Rights Of The People We Capture

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

We live in the digital age of smartphones and social media, where the large scale capturing and sharing of photographs has become a global run-of-the-mill form of communication and expression. The rights in these photographs are typically subject to the licensing schemes of the various social media platforms to which they are posted.

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Fleetwood Facts: Art Imitates Life, But Does It Infringe Copyright?

Copyright Lately

Case in point is the recent lawsuit over the magazine article that inspired the film Top Gun. While these deals may be standard entertainment industry practice, they’re more about avoiding headaches—like defamation or privacy claims—than securing any exclusive control over someone’s life story.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-04-25

Barry Sookman

seals the deal on USMCA, says trade agreement can now take effect July 1 [link] 2020-04-25 Civil liberties group warns of 'invasion of privacy' after Ontario gives police COVID-19 test data [link] 2020-04-25 Meghan's privacy action against U.K. On Friday, April 24, MLI will be hostin… 2020-04-24 U.S.

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In a November ruling, a magistrate judge notes that the lawsuit appears to be the first of its kindone in which a social media influencer accuses another influencer of (among other things) copyright infringement based on the similarities between their posts that promote the same products. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Sydney Nicole LLC v.