LexBlog IP

MARCH 21, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. In this edition of #InterestingPatents, we look at Meta’s new patent: Generating Customized, Personalized Reactions to Social Media Content.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright infringement.but is it? In reaching his decision , U.S.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2023

The use of generative AI tools is much like how users use the Internet or social media. ” Like other forms of technology that have developed in the past, there are serious implications with the use of generative AI on individuals’ privacy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2, 2022): Nor does personal jurisdiction arise out of the Film Defendants’ so-called “advertising strategy,” which allegedly “featured a significant push on social media[ ] targeting Washington, DC residents via Instagram and Facebook.” targeted social media advertising. “ Privacy. * ” * Williams v.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

This was originally published by Esports Insider on June 24, 2021. The world of competitive video gaming implicates a complicated patchwork of privacy laws, and esports companies need to keep in mind some key issues when assessing privacy and cybersecurity obligations. Collecting information. Using information.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

As artificial intelligence, also known as “AI” becomes more of a household word, it is worth pointing out not only how cool it can be, but also how some uses raise privacy concerns. Examples of this are evident in the massive explosion of smartphones and social media.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 11, 2022

Furthermore, the age authentication process would expose both under-18s and adults to extra privacy and security risks. The bill regulates “social media platforms,” defined as an “electronic medium” that allows “users to create, share, and view user?generated What The Bill Says. generated content.”

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facebook had a rough week on many fronts, including the publishing of “The Facebook Files” by the Wall Street Journal, segments on CBS Sunday Morning , the revelation of on 60 Minutes of Frances Haugen as the whistleblower, and culminating with the testimony of the whistleblower before Congress.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2023

Italian authorities are reporting that officers of the Special Privacy Protection and Technological Fraud Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Rome have carried out a new operation against pirate IPTV.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Anecdotal evidence from people who claimed to have seen the campaign in action, feel that BeStreamWise ads may have appeared after they visited pirate sports streaming sites, or after viewing pirate streams on social media. Whatever the mechanism, the campaign seems to have been well targeted.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today I’m blogging about one of those bills, California AB 2408 , “Social media platform: child users: addiction.” This bill assumes that social media platforms are intentionally addicting kids, so it creates business-ending liability to thwart those alleged addictions. What the Bill Says.

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

After taking a publishing hiatus due to the pandemic, we are back on track for publishing Volume 102 and onwards! Thus, we are calling all practitioners, judges, law professors, law students, economists, legal professionals, writers and anyone with interest in the fields of intellectual property, law and technology!

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 11, 2023

These contract law provisions, totally alien to the Irish legal tradition, are designed to apply in negotiations and contractual relationships between artists and commercial exploiters of their works, including social media platforms and streaming services.

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Corsearch

JULY 18, 2023

Millions across the globe have flocked to Instagram Threads – the newest social media platform on the block. As with Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and other social media platforms, businesses must be wary of bad actors targeting their brands and consumers with fake products and scams.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 6, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. important;}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {.thegem-vc-text.thegem-custom-642fc2d3335476755{position:

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

That provision creates a wide safe harbor for internet service providers; shielding them from liability associated with publishing third-party content. Section 230 fostered the dominant social media business model where almost all of the major internet media services rely primarily upon user-provided content.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2024

Creators, a term which I and many in the creator economy agree includes influencers, is a unique and distinct set of end users that generate content on platforms (or online service providers or social media platforms). In October 2022, the White House published its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 29, 2023

For reasons that make absolutely no sense while somehow making perfect sense, millions of internet users think that social media platforms are perfect for piracy. Nevertheless, the masses love quick and easy so in common with similar platforms everywhere, social media has a piracy problem.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Kogan made a similar post to her account : MedSpa and Kogan published the photo other times as well. If he is, either the clinic is violating medical privacy rules or 50 Cent consented to the disclosure, and that consent could potentially extend to the photo. So what exactly are they probative of? Case Citation : Jackson v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

” Publisher/Speaker Claims. The allegations expressly referenced the publication function, always a tipoff: “Counts VII and VIII allege that Match Defendants ‘published Plaintiff Alberts’ images, private activities, likeness, voice and/or identity on. Tinder social media channels.'”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

The court doesn’t see that either: The CDA is inapplicable because Plaintiff’s BIPA claims do not treat Amazon’s conduct as publishing. Rather, BIPA imposes legally distinct duties to make certain disclosures and obtain consent before obtaining or using biometric information. The court shrugs its shoulders.

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IPilogue

APRIL 4, 2022

This article was originally published online on 28 March 2022 on New Internationalist and will be included in their March-April 2022 publication. Her privacy has been repeatedly invaded by complete strangers since childhood. Soon after, it was published in a French medical journal, along with her full name and medical details.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2022

Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) Rulemaking , May 2022. How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research , Association of Research Libraries blog, Feb. . __ (forthcoming 2022). Blog Posts.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 27, 2022

The majority of these challenges were raised by media houses and media / journalist associations against Part III or provisions falling under Part III of the IT Rules, 2021, viz. the part of the Rules dealing with / governing publishers of online curated content and publishers of news and current affairs content.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 23, 2024

For Genshin Impact publisher Cognosphere, pre-release leaks are unacceptable. Cognosphere obtains the latter to compel online platforms, typically social media companies, to hand over whatever information they hold on alleged infringers. 512(c)(3)(A)(v).” ” Basis for Dispute: X Corp. “X Corp. For X Corp.,

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43(B)log

MARCH 28, 2024

Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. about your goods, products or services”).

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? Those questions come from every angle and include debates about social media, the ethics of organ donation, writers’ ethics when using elements from another person’s life and much, much more.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 17, 2024

The IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics) Rules place responsibility on the Social Media Intermediaries to ensure that no prohibited content is allowed to be published or circulated on their platforms.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2021

The UK IPO has also published the results of last year’s consultation on the review of the IP enforcement framework. The winning essay will be published in Common Market Law Review and will also receive a monetary prize of 500 euros. The call for views is open until August 31.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Looking back over the past five years, it seems clear that the adoption and implementation of Article 17 has not led to more widespread use of automated content detection systems by social media platforms, and that while there continues to be anecdotal evidence of , it is not a very widespread problem. So was it worth it?

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

The patent system enables the protection of innovative ideas, and newly published patent applications provide a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation. 11630877 INVENTION OVERVIEW: Sometimes finding your friends across the extensive social media landscape can be difficult.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

” Publisher/Speaker Claims. Internet Brands , 230 applies to the failure-to-warn claims because “Plaintiffs’ theory would require the editing of third-party content, thus treating Defendants as a publisher of content.” . “Plaintiffs do not meaningfully challenge Defendants’ status.” 2023 U.S.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2024

Further, it was alleged that they were diluting and tarnishing the brand by publishing AI-generated deepfake content using the said characters image and appearance across online platforms, including pornographic websites, which, the plaintiff argued, was detrimental to the overall reputation and goodwill amassed by the show over the years.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2021

2021 has seen the emergence of a litigation genre against “yearbook” database vendors that publish old yearbooks online. In particular, they are having some success bending Section 230, and this genre offers some interesting considerations for folks paying attention to the privacy/230 borders. Ancestry , Knapke v.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. As a result, authors and the publishing industry as a whole hemorrhage large amounts of revenue each year,” they write.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A few days before we published that report, Google had just processed its seven billionth removal request, having reached six billion less than a year earlier. Social media platform Facebook also reports huge numbers of takedowns to the EC. Those listed below represent just a small sample.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In this post, I’m looking at the vast domain of the YouTube video & social media platform —which, lest we forget, is a major division of Google/Alphabet — and how its copyright aspect manifests in options for individual contributors (“YouTubers,” in the jargon). Also, I am not focusing on how people make money on YouTube.

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