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Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? (Analysis of CA AB587)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The bill applies to “social media platforms” that: “(A) Construct a public or semipublic profile within a bounded system created by the service. (B) ” This definition of “social media” has been around for about a decade, and it’s awful. Who’s Covered by the Bill?

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3 Count: Copyright Claims Onboarding

Plagiarism Today

This includes works originally uploaded to social media. Finally today, Security Magazine reports that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) has launched a new initiative aimed at decreasing piracy through better cloud security. 3: Motion Picture Association Fights Piracy with Cloud Security.

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Drake and 21 Savage May Have More (Legal) Issues Than Vogue

IPilogue

The magazine was part of a faux press tour rollout , including a fake NPR Tiny Desk Concert and a fake Saturday Night Live performance. Drake and 21 Savage jointly promoted the fake magazine on their Instagram with the caption: “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!!

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SDNY: YouTube Sublicenses Embedding, But Copyright Concerns Linger

Copyright Lately

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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We Need to Rethink YouTube

Plagiarism Today

Social media silos like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok dominate the landscape. For example, Escapist Magazine still has a YouTube channel, but gives strong preference to the video on its own site. Sure, there were sites that offered free and (relatively) easy home pages, but those were never taken very seriously.

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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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Morality clauses in the era of social media scandals: what brands should know

IAM Magazine

In a social media-driven world, it is imperative that morality clauses are effectively drafted to safeguard the public image of a company’s brand. In Russia, there are several provisions by which a morality clause may be enforced to achieve this aim.