Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I’ve blogged some recent cases showing how it’s become really, really hard to win defamation cases over social media content (e.g., Notice how the court omitted any reference to the fire emoji. ). The post Social Media Is Often a Defamation-Free Zone…But Not Always–Steak N Shake v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Over time, “Promotional posts were interspersed with more personal content, in a strategy that JLM referred to as the ‘personal glimpse,'” and other JLM employees helped manage the accounts. What does a 200+ year old fox have to say about who owns social media accounts?). ” (Cite to Pierson v.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

The trouble began when Albany radio station WGNA asked its social media followers to vote for the regions best fried chicken and tagged a few contenders, including Chicken Joes, which retweeted the stations original post. Share your thoughts in the comments below or on social media @copyrightlately. Sydney Nicole LLC v.

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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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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.” Are you a social media influencer or brand looking to hire a social media influencer?

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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

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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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. They’re registering for trademarks. If the U.S.

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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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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The guide also makes it easier to also ensure that any contractors or partners or others who might be working with your brand, whether it’s managing your social media or building your website or recording your videos or podcasts or whatever it is, know all about your brand and how to use it properly.

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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The plaintiffs claim that Moy referred to himself and his resellers as “silent assassins.” The complaint makes no mention of how long the alleged offending lasted, while references to the business are made in the past tense, which may suggest it no longer exists.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Kat Von D did not dispute that she used Sedlik’s photo as a reference for a tattoo she performed on a friend. The jury decided that Kat Von D’s inked rendering of the jazz artist was not substantially similar to Sedlik’s portrait, and Sedlik’s portrait in social media posts was covered. By: Perkins Coie

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photographer Jeff Sedlik will ask a federal jury to find that celebrity tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D) infringed the copyright in his iconic portrait of Miles Davis by reproducing the photo in a tattoo and then displaying images of her handiwork on social media. The Good, the Bad and the.

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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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Michael Geist

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

First, the question of regulating user generated content , referred to in the bill as content uploaded to a social media service. exempting users from being treated as broadcasters, the government is now claiming that it “listened, especially to the concerns around social media, and we’ve fixed it.”

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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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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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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This growth is facilitated by users who openly advertise the site on social media, TikTok included. While the Authors Guild doesn’t recommend branding the platform as a notorious market, the social media platform responded to these and other rightsholder complaints in a letter to the USTR. TikTok Responds.

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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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IPilogue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The public domain refers to works not protected by copyright, which means the works can be used without acquiring permission or paying a fee. The prevalent use of Uffizi’s artworks despite Italian law led to Uffizi using software to police whether artworks are used to sell products, especially on social media.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many people promote the free service on social media, without any enforcement action getting in the way. Z-Library itself hasn’t confirmed the seizures either, referring to a hosting issue instead. That site currently displays a message that refers to server problems as well. ” they informed us.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 15, 2024

The complaint ( read here ) accuses Chili’s operator Brinker International of using the band’s 1994 hit song “Sabotage” in an unauthorized social media video to promote the restaurant. Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media. What do you think?

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Kashishipr

MAY 4, 2022

Referring to your trademark as a verb or noun enhances its likelihood of becoming generic and eventually losing its trademark protection someday. To safeguard your trademarks adequately, you should track new trademark filings, online use, social media usage of marks, and domain names, which shall alert you to potential conflicts.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 1, 2023

No doubt some media reports will take the ‘500,000 customers’ comment and run with it but nowhere here does it say that 500,000 lost access to one or more services. The problem is getting people to believe that the threats are real and not just another deterrent message that only applies to other people.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2022

Recently, this Kat reported on Beyoncé’s decision to remove a sample from her song, after Kelis took to social media to complain, even though the rights had been cleared and there was no copyright infringement. As I explained in the Guardian : “It doesn’t matter that Beyoncé didn’t actually infringe Kelis’s rights.

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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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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Without reference to domain extensions, the numbering system indicates that soccer365 was the 16th domain to be added to the IWL back in February 2014. Money is made by diverting some users of those sites to phishing portals where they’re encouraged to enter their social media and other credentials into look-a-like platforms.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 8, 2024

Taamneh’ Supreme Court ruling, which held that social media platforms aren’t liable for terrorists who use their network. While that’s not a copyright case, it’s relevant for the secondary liability question, the ISP argues.

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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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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. ” I agree. No one knows for sure which services the law reaches.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Agreement also assigned to the team a list of social media names that contained the word “Gulls,” which had been used to promote the team. The assignment agreement defined the registered marks, the common law marks, and the social media names collectively as “Intellectual Property”. What’s missing here?

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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.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 23, 2022

In the fall of 2019, Brazilian law enforcement agencies conducted a large anti-piracy campaign codenamed ‘Operation 404,’ referring to the well-known HTTP error code. With 30 search and seizure warrants in hand, law enforcement officials blocked or seized the domains of 226 websites, 461 piracy apps, and 15 social media accounts.

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