Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion holds that the key parts of Florida’s social media censorship law (SB 7072) likely violate the First Amendment and should remain enjoined. ” The opinion also highlights the madness of the Fifth Circuit allowing the Texas social media censorship law to take effect via a 1-line order.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Plaintiffs cite Moy’s claim of having “over 500 sellers” in the market, but the number of subscribers isn’t a rough estimate. The plaintiffs claim that Moy referred to himself and his resellers as “silent assassins.” 1201(a)(2) , which concerns circumvention of technical measures.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Introduction What separates long-established print and electronic media from social media is that it comes along with a bunch of techniques for its usage. These are tools that shaped social media to be more significant than the long-established medias. How can Influencers protect their IP?

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Corsearch

JANUARY 31, 2025

For many brands, the holiday season brings a surge of infringements on across marketplaces and social media. But seasonal infringement also stretches far beyond marketplaces, with social media used as a means to reach a wider audience under less scrutiny from platform operators.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

“Market entry for a pirate is easy. They’re paying influencers to go on social media and promote them. However, she was not referring to overblocking, but to the tendency of blocked sites to launch alternative domains almost instantly. “Piracy is really sometimes coming out of the shadows. If the U.S.

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Kashishipr

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to promoting, marketing, and advertising, social media is one of the most effective and powerful ways. Content creators and social media influencers work sincerely to build their reputation for expertise in specific industries, products, and topics.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

It is a challenge for the institutional framework, enforcement agencies, and courts to effectively develop their missions, because, even with the current resources, some markets remain unexplored or wrongly understood. b) The world’s largest social media, intervened in a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S.

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Corsearch

MARCH 19, 2025

54% of Gen Z spend over 4 hours on social media every day More than two thirds of Gen Z use TikTok 40% of Gen Z follow brands on social media 97% of Gen Z use social media as the first port of call when looking to buy something They live, shop, and engage digitally, making them one of the most influential consumer groups today.

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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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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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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

WowWee’s Vice President of Brand Development & Creative Strategy, Sydney Wiseman, used her WowWee email address to create a Roblox user account and used her Roblox account to promote My Avastars dolls on social media, including videos on her TikTok account. This was enough survive the motion to dismiss.

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Art Law Journal

MAY 4, 2022

Social media has the power and reach to create community, provide a kick of inspiration, and help artists visualize their work from a macro perspective. Perhaps most significantly, mastering the art of social media can help your relationships with your followers and turn them into your tribe. Your time is limited.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Z-Library was also mentioned in several recommendations to the US Trade Representative’s overview of notorious piracy markets. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included. In some instances, third-party platforms such as TikTok were called out as well. TikTok Responds.

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Intepat

MARCH 25, 2025

Several luxury brands, including Tom Ford, Chanel, and Dior, annually invest millions into developing and marketing their signature perfumes. Dupe perfumes are often marketed as affordable alternatives to their premium counterparts, offering similar fragrances without the hefty price tag. billion in 2025.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. The California negligence claim doesn’t necessarily raise a federal question, because it can be resolved without reference to 2339A. Google and Taamneh v.

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Michael Geist

MAY 18, 2023

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”? What, if any, criteria should be used to assess whether an online undertaking is providing a social media service?

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Corsearch

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, whilst international trade fosters economic growth and exchange, it also creates opportunities for grey market goods to emerge. Table of contents : • What is the grey market? • Supply chain inefficiencies: Misallocation of products or product returns can lead to grey market sales.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 2, 2022

I’m referring to the hugely controversial battle between Toei Animation and popular YouTuber Totally Not Mark we reported early December. It was important to many of Mark’s fans though, and with huge numbers flooding to social media to call for a Toei boycott, the situation had already spiraled out of control.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Interestingly, Instagram allegedly refused a TM takedown request because “the reported party appears to be using your trademark to refer to or comment on your goods and services,” despite persistence by ASU’s outside counsel. I am embarrassed to be associated with thus [sic] ignorant behavior.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the emergency application to restore the injunction against HB 20, Texas’ social media censorship law. Everyone knows “social media censorship” laws will require the Supreme Court’s review. Paxton appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 14, 2022

The court clarifies that, in this context, the chyron’s use of “follower” refers to an adherent of the organization’s beliefs, not just the mechanical act of following an account on Twitter. CNN argued that the Flynns’ social media activity shows they in fact are QAnon adherents. The post Retweets

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SpicyIP

JUNE 17, 2022

The New-York based cosmetics company reportedly struggled due to competition from other established brands as well as a host of small companies that use social media. Smaller / niche cosmetic brands have noticeably increased even in the Indian social media space. v Sarita Manufacturing Co., 1997 PTC 394.

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Michael Geist

APRIL 20, 2023

When they make money from these activities, social media companies must be obliged to reinvest in our creators and into local content creation. The specific use case: The amendment could also fail to achieve its own stated purpose to capture commercial sound recordings broadcast by social media platforms. Section 4.1(2)

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 16, 2021

22, 2021): companies now pay so-called “influencers” to issue posts on social media touting their products or services. Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Advertising/E-Commerce. Ariix, LLC v.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Skiplagged’s defense also highlighted its website’s disclaimers, which warned users that hidden city ticketing “may upset the airline” and marketed itself as exposing fares airlines “don’t want you to see.” Now, the site simply references “American” to identify the airline’s flights.

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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. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. Battles over politician-operated social media accounts. StopTheSADScheme.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Ask your attorney to include your email address as a reference for authorities, so you receive the same alerts your attorney gets. Create trademark alerts for your main brands, block them on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media. Request verification of your account from social media.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 8, 2021

The court observed that there was no dispute that the product was "hugely successful, due in no small part to Plaintiffs’ extensive marketing efforts and the PRETZEL CRISPS trademark registration they received and have enforced to clear the field of similarly named products. Read comments and post your comment here.

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IPilogue

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rule 40 restricts social media posts and advertisements published by athletes and sponsors during the Games, both in volume and content. As social media posts generate buzz and draw fans, spectators will have a chance to enjoy getting behind-the-scenes looks and instant updates from their favourite athletes.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But even if the Court afforded the “thanks” portion of the caption no promotional value, the remainder clearly promotes the Defendants by referring to MedSpa as “the number one med spa” and associating it with a “#celeb” and “#vip.”. When is a video showing content published on social media an advertisement, and when it is a documentary?

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

The case raises an issue that, as far as I can tell, has never before been asserted in court, let alone decided: does a tattoo artist commit copyright infringement by using a copyrighted image as a reference when creating a client’s tattoo? Kat Von D’s Instagram post. The Court’s Summary Judgment Ruling.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 13, 2022

The dramatic rise in e-commerce in the last two decades saw many brand and business owners struggling to safeguard their Intellectual Property (IP) assets in cyberspace, starting from domain names and then going onto social media handles. NFTs may refer to the digital goods or specific pieces sold in the Metaverse.

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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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The IPKat

JULY 18, 2021

To address the market distortions and the music streaming ‘value gap’, the Government should introduce robust and legally enforceable obligations to normalise licensing arrangements for UGC-hosting services. AIM stated that the independent community accounts for 25% of the UK recording market, thereby putting the majors’ share at 75%.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The relevant act, seeking to bring Ireland in line with the Directive, is the Statutory Instrument 567/2021 ‘European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021’ (hereinafter ‘ the Regulations’ ). The Irish legislative transposition finally became law on 19 November 2021.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ayala specifically references Defendants’ statements that they “pre-screened local tour operators” and ‘”pre-vet them all’ to ensure an exceptional experience.” Wired : Inside the Underground Market for Fake Amazon Reviews. Mileto, 2022 WL 3006778 (Mich. July 28, 2022). Zeidenfeld v.

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