Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act contains two major provisions. First, it requires social media companies to conduct age assurance of their users to a 95% accuracy rate, along with an appellate process for misclassified users. Utah argued that the law doesn’t suppress any specific topic.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That decision could have significant implications for this case as well as all other First Amendment challenges of states’ efforts to censor social media.] The analogy is an imperfect one—social media operators are arguably less involved in the curation of their websites’ content than these traditional examples.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

To piggyback on the editorial board analogy, if the newspaper itself had published an account of its editorial policies and decisions, and it turned out to be potentially fraudulent in some way, it would not chill the newspaper’s exercise of editorial control to investigate whether the newspaper’s public statements on that topic were false.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

According to data published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics, UK residents made 15.6 It’s alleged that an application open on the laptop allowed the man to control the IPTV services he offered on social media and at the time of the police intervention, he was offering several dozen, including some in Spain.

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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. “S.B.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

Section 230 The court summarizes its position: The dispositive question is whether the Act’s prohibitions on autoplay, seamless pagination, and notifications treat NetChoice members as the publisher or speaker of the third-party content they disseminate. The court concludes they do not. Case Citation : NetChoice LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Consider the wide swath of entities vital to disseminating others’ speech—bookstores, book publishers, essay-compilation editors, theaters, newspaper letters to the editor and op-eds, live television guest interviews, cable television operators offering cable channels, art shows, community bulletin boards, and comedy clubs, just to name a few.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages. With no other viable options left, the publishers filed a motion for a default judgment in their favor. However, both shadow libraries remained online and continue to operate to this day.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The inaugural session of the Advanced Publishing Institute , held last month at New York University, employed case studies and problem-solving exercises to examine the changes sweeping over publishing. The post IPA’s Pansa On Publishing and Responsibility appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ever since the massive explosion of content creation that gave rise to social media, content creators worldwide have utilized embedding to showcase and link users to content that otherwise would not have been as readily accessible. On July 17, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Hunley v.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 4, 2024

The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘ samizdat ,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. In 2017, Elsevier won a court case against LibGen and Sci-Hub in a New York federal court, which awarded the publisher $15 million in damages.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The two companies signed an agreement in 2017 that gave Beijing Shi Jun publishing rights for Kairosoft games in China. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.

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The IPKat

JULY 4, 2022

In 2019, the EU legislature introduced an EU-wide related right (Article 15 of the DSM Directive , on which see Katposts here ) for EU-based press publishers in relation to online uses of their press publications by information society service providers, including news aggregation services, social media, and search engines.

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Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“Influencer Marketing” and “Social Media Brand Endorsement” have become big business. Our law firm represents some of the business’s largest social media marketing agencies and influencers. This means they also own and need to license the copyright to the brand. This happens all the time.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Threat of Creative Theft Creative theft poses a significant challenge for independent artists, manifesting as the unauthorized appropriation of original works through reposts, remixes, and style imitations on social media platforms. Employ social media monitoring tools that alert you whenever your work appears on other platforms.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Threat of Creative Theft Creative theft poses a significant challenge for independent artists, manifesting as the unauthorized appropriation of original works through reposts, remixes, and style imitations on social media platforms. Employ social media monitoring tools that alert you whenever your work appears on other platforms.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The “Informed Consent Action Network,” and its founder Del Bigtree , ran afoul of the social media services’ COVID misinformation policies. ICAN claimed that the social media services took these actions due to government pressure and jawboning, especially pointing the finger at Rep.

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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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The IPKat

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 22, 2022 , the European Union Intellectual Office (EUIPO), through its European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, published a discussion paper entitled " Automated Content Recognition: IP Enforcement and management use cases ".

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Barbera filed the lawsuit, alleging that Cyrus posted a photo he took on her various social media presences. Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that several manga piracy websites, targeted by Japanese publishers in a US Court, have moved and are now operating openly in Russia.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Supreme Court denies a hearing to music publishers who accused a website of infringing on the copyright of live music performances; the U.S. This week in Other Barks & Bites: The U.S.

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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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Instead, it was published in 2021 on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, by a prominent video blogger that uses the name Beida Mange. That’s why, in all of these cases, the copying was first detected by the public, who went on to point out the issue and create a controversy both on social media and the broader internet.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This month, Newton is at it again and recently published an updated article that looks at the latest quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report. It has the oldest demographics of the major social media networks and much of that is because so little of the content on it is original or fresh.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Two More Courts Tell Litigants That Social Media Services Aren’t State Actors. Anti-Zionist Loses Lawsuit Over Social Media Account Suspensions–Martillo v. Facebook Defeats Lawsuit By Publishers of Vaccine (Mis?) Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Her latest trash lawsuit claimed that social media, the government, and Procter & Gamble were all doing the RICO against her. With respect to the social media services’ status as publishers, the court says: the plaintiff’s RICO claims depend on Twitter and Facebook’s acting as publishers.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues. Publishers and authors are not happy with the site and are actively trying to limit its exposure. This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ( USTR ) publishes a list of ‘notorious markets’ that facilitate online piracy and related intellectual property crimes. For example, we have seen hosting companies, advertisers, and social media platforms being added.

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Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

A court win against the Internet Archive has publishers celebrating, but what does it mean for the future of public libraries and digital access? It’s a clear win for publishers, but for public libraries—and the millions who rely on them for access to digital books—the ruling may signal more troubling times ahead. Hachette v.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 10, 2024

INTRODUCTION The entertainment and media sector is experiencing a continuous and increasing influence on social media with each passing day. However, between now and then social media influence also has some problems. One of the biggest obstacles is defamation.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 5, 2022

Following the example of the United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago. The third iteration of the EU watchlist will be published towards the end of the year and several interested parties have already submitted their nominations. IFPI Flags Top Piracy Problems. This also applies to Twitter.

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Michael Geist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Federal Court has approved a consent order requiring Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault to unblock Rebel News publisher Ezra Levant on Twitter. The issue of blocking users on social media has received considerable attention in the past, with the CCLA and Canadian media covering the issue.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2024

A couple of years ago, Florida and Texas passed “social media censorship” laws. The laws were not subtle–the bill titles literally told the world that the legislatures were censoring social media. From a drafting standpoint, the laws were a mess.

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Barry Sookman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Third Circuit Court of Appeals released a bombshell case holding that § 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) did not provide a safe harbor for the social media company TikTok when its algorithms recommended and promoted a video which allegedly led to a minor killing herself. In the dying weeks of the summer, the U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved the existing injunction against Texas HB 20, the so-called social media censorship law, in a one-sentence order. Such inevitable distortions of publishers’ editorial decisions and operations are intolerable under the First Amendment.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Outside of published authors and journalists, it was an activity mostly limited to academia. Between blogs, social media, forums, YouTube and a million other sites, one doesn’t have to be in a writing profession to be a widely read author. However, most things that are written and published aren’t checked.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 11, 2024

TikTok Pirates For example, when a viral clip from a TV series is making the rounds on social media platforms, one could argue that this serves as free advertising. This conclusion is quite intuitive in a social media world where ‘influencers’ are widely used to promote content.

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