TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The plaintiffs claim that Moy referred to himself and his resellers as “silent assassins.” Claim for Relief Under ECPA Count III alleges violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which prohibits interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications.

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IPilogue

JULY 16, 2021

Reports of racial bias and Canadian privacy law violations weaken the argument for implementing FRT. On June 10, 2021, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (“OPC”) issued a 29-page report on FRT and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”) -related surveillance as it pertains to the Canadian public. What is Clearview?

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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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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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U.S. Department of Commerce

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Keeping Your Data Safe: The Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge. These prize challenge technologies successfully enable public safety agencies to share data without compromising the privacy of individuals. . But old techniques like standard data redaction are no longer enough to protect users’ privacy. October 26, 2021.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The term “link taxes” refer to the government compulsion of large Internet services, such as social media or search engines, to pay news media for indexing and publishing their headlines and links. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. #StopTheSADScheme.

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Michael Geist

AUGUST 17, 2021

Consequently, we have opposed Justin Trudeau’s attempt to create a national speech regulator for social media. Similarly, its Bill C-10 alternative states that the party will “exempt the content Canadians upload onto social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Tik Tok from regulation in order to protect free speech.”

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Any user can easily copy, duplicate or access the data without the permission of the author and it is difficult to trace them back due to the issues of privacy and other matters. Wide impact of Multimedia and Social media Multimedia is a much broader concept consisting of text, sounds, audio-video, images, graphics etc.

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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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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While study of social media and online platform private ordering is a very well-established way to find out how providers deal with copyright, data protection and consumer protection, studies of generative AI T&C have been slower to get going. Did model providers undertake content moderation (e.g. You can find the full report here.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 1, 2024

social media, search engines) Earlier this year, a magistrate judge followed Cox in this reasoning and recommended quashing the subpoena. They argued that Cox also falls under DMCA §512(d), as it can remove or disable ‘references or links’ to infringing content. Therefore, a DMCA subpoena should be valid for Cox.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For example: “If a conflict arises between commercial interests and the best interests of children, companies should prioritize the privacy, safety, and well-being of children over commercial interests.” What are the long-term privacy and security implications of routinized and widespread face scanning?

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. On May 31, 2022, Judge Dale S. Background. For example, in Alexander v.

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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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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

(CNR Number: KLTV010019372021) The reason for filing the suit was that certain unknown people had posted without authorisation original sound recordings created by Vempati Ravi Shankar (the plaintiff’s late husband) on the defendant’s social media platforms – Facebook and Instagram. In Akshaya Creations v. Relying on Puttaswamy v.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 13, 2023

For example, can personality rights be viewed as an extension of the right to privacy? Scripps-Howard, the US Supreme Court distinguished the right of publicity from the right to privacy and ruled in favor of Zaccchini for the unauthorized broadcast of his performance by the defendant under publicity rights.

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Michael Geist

JULY 30, 2021

When combined with plans for a new data commissioner, privacy tribunal, and the expanded CRTC under Bill C-10, the sheer amount of new Internet governance is dizzying. The AMPs would be referred to the new privacy tribunal for review. These penalties can run as high as three percent of global revenue or $10 million.

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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). YouTube is no different in that respect.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 26, 2024

Simply Life India (2023) (“Anil Kapoor”) (in paragraph 53), wherein the Court, had ruled in favour of safeguarding the distinct personality rights of celebrities, including the rights of endorsement and privacy, against widespread online exploitation and unauthorised commercial use. Arvee Enterprises and Ors.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2023

Some information is redacted for privacy reasons, often when the notice includes the name of a private individual, for example. Making a Living: DMCA Freelancing DMCA notices listed on the Lumen Database are an invaluable source of information when investigating instances of copyright abuse.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A billion is a big number, especially when it refers to takedown demands received over a period of just nine months. 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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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. Passing-off refers to misrepresenting someone else’s goods as one’s own. 893 of 2002 (Del) (India). [2]

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

On September 18, 2023, NetChoice, LLC — a national trade association with members from the tech and social media industry — obtained a preliminary injunction from the District Court for the Northern District of California preventing the State of California from enforcing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC” or the “Act”).

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 10, 2024

It talks about the matters like employment being at stake, efficiency and transparency, worker privacy, inclusive technological adoption and collective bargaining in contemporary world. Through ongoing data gathering and monitoring, AI can potentially violate worker privacy, which can result in unfair management practices and stress.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The court certified a question to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Under what circumstances, if any, is material publicly posted to social media platforms inherently unknowable for purposes of applying the discovery rule in the context of defamation, right to publicity, right to privacy and related tort claims?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

What is Open Source AI Open source AI refers to the use of open source components within an AI model, i.e. elements composing the AI model (e.g. Think of social media, whose data are scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLM) (e.g. social media data), databases and trade secrets (e.g.

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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. Educate consumers on… 1.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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.

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Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

There have been regulations that referred to antitrust laws since 1959, but it was not until 1990´s that a legal shift in Latin America occurred because of the Washington Consensus. b) The world’s largest social media, intervened in a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S. In Colombia.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Citing the agreement, the defendant requested the suit to be referred to an arbitration. An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The position of the precedent set by the Supreme Court in Vidya Drolia and Ors.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Grisham and Turow don’t directly reference any of these efforts. Whois Privacy Corp., A similar order was granted requiring email services, social media services, search engines and other online providers to disable service to all of the defendants’ websites. and NameCheap, Inc.,

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2024

Instead, attention has shifted to the TDM exceptions in Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive – so much so that some people have begun to refer to the Directive as the “TDM Directive,” – which received relatively little public attention at the time. Overblocking is a real problem, but an extremely marginal one.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. Academic researchers can also fit this paradigm. ” Click on the image to see the animation.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

The court says that Facebook’s TOS references to its decision-making standards don’t override Section 230: To the extent Facebook’s Terms of Service outline a set of criteria for suspending accounts (i.e., This is a quintessential editorial decision of the type that is “perforce immune under section 230.”. See this article.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Legally, when we talk about “music under copyright,” we’re referring to the ownership of the composition or recording itself. This includes thousands of books the complete Wikipedia and nearly a trillion words extracted from blogs social media and various online platforms. Beyond copyright, data privacy raises its head.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 8, 2024

Age Estimation: The Act requires online providers to estimate the age of child users so that the highest privacy setting is applied when a child visits the site. High Default Privacy Settings: The Act requires a “high” level of privacy setting as the “default” for children visiting a site.

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