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Fifty Shades of Grey and fan fiction: do you own your user-generated content?

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

The book series Fifty Shades of Grey and social media user "terms of service" might not seem to naturally intersect. After all, one is about being

CJEU judgment on jurisdiction for Football Dataco v Sportradar

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union
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  • October 25 2012

Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that where a website operator targets and then provides material infringing sui generis database rights to recipients based in an EU Member State over the internet, the act of infringement occurs at least in the EU Member State where those recipients are located

Social media sites: new battlegrounds for right of publicity disputes

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 15 2012

Social media websites are quickly emerging as the new battleground for right of publicity disputes, with the ultimate question being an old one what are the parameters of First Amendment protections for corporate, commercial speech?

Olympians sue Samsung over the unauthorized use of their names and likenesses in connection with a Facebook application

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 15 2012

Eighteen of our nation’s greatest athletes, including Olympians Mark Spitz, Greg Louganis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Janet Evans, Dara Torres, and Amanda Beard, have joined together to sue the Samsung Corporation and its related entities (Samsung) over the alleged misappropriation of their names and likenesses in connection with a Facebook application

Federal lawsuit alleges infringement of minors' New York right of publicity by Facebook "like" and "friend finder" features

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 19 2011

In what may represent a new wave in an interesting challenge to the viral nature of social media marketing, a recently filed putative class action asserts a right of publicity claim against Facebook in connection with the service's "Like" and "Friend Finder" features

Google Books settlement rejected

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2011

This week a federal court put the brakes on Google's plans to create a universal digital library by rejecting the company's proposed settlement of class-action lawsuits filed by authors and publishers challenging the Google Books project

Canadian Internet law update - 2010

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 21 2011

This paper summarizes selected developments in Internet law that occurred in 2010

AFACT loses copyright appeal: full federal court finds iiNet did not authorise infringement

  • Davies Collison Cave
  • -
  • Australia
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  • February 25 2011

In a landmark 2-1 decision (Jagot J dissenting) with three separate judgments, the Full Federal Court yesterday dismissed an appeal against last year's decision that found internet service provider iiNet was not liable for the infringement of copyright by its users

Supreme Court rules on online journals and printed press

  • Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale
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  • Italy
  • -
  • October 21 2010

The liability of editors of online journals is an issue that has deeply divided the Italian courts in recent years

DMCA "safe harbor" protection upheld for YouTube notwithstanding generalized knowledge of infringement

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2010

A United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently found that YouTube was entitled to "safe harbor" protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against all of Viacom's direct and secondary copyright infringement claims

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