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Years ago, Laney Griner took a picture of her then toddler son, Sam, at the beach clenching his fist in what appeared like a celebratory gesture. The photo went viral, and later became a widely used meme on the internet known as “Success Kid.” Griner
The post Will “Success Kid” Owner Continue to Succeed on Appeal in Copyright Dispute? first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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In a mashup that the late pop artist Andy Warhol surely would have loved, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has applied the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith to vacate a prior
The post Warhols, Tigers and Monkees, Oh My! – The Tenth Circuit Applies the Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Against Netflix first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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Almost from the very beginning of the internet era, the world has been increasingly afflicted with cyberfraud, exploiting the internet’s potential to enable fraudsters to induce unsuspecting victims to transfer money to overseas bank accounts using another relatively recent technological innovation, electronic funds transfer. Hong
The post The New Face of Fraud: Deepfakes and the Emerging Cyber Threats in Hong Kong first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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The EU AI Act, which was passed by the European Parliament on 13 March and is set to become law later this year, will probably be the world’s first legislation to introduce a general regulatory framework for artificial intelligence systems. The European Union is known
The post AI Regulation Introduced in Europe – Setting the Way Forward for the Rest of the World or Slowing Down the Adoption of New Tech? first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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Trader Joe’s is a hugely popular grocery chain that has expanded from its Southern California origins to operate close to 600 stores across the United States. Although Trader Joe’s has traditionally had a reputation as an ethical company, accusations of union-busting have tarnished the grocer’s
The post Trader Joe’s Labor Union Bags a Victory in Trademark Dispute first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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2M ago
2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data brokers, and more. Because 2024 is shaping up to be equally
The post Looking Down the Road: Data Privacy Priorities in 2024 first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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On March 8, 2023, China acceded to the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (the “Convention”, also known as the Apostille Convention). On October 23, 2023, the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the Convention shall enter into force in China
The post China Abolishes Legalization Requirement on Foreign Public Documents and Adopts Apostille first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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40 years ago, I was the new kid in 6th grade – truly a terrible age in a young girl’s life to try and “fit in” at a new elementary school in a small town. But, one of my best memories from that year was
The post Wavy Baby’s Shoes Not Entitled to Special First Amendment Protections first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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The United Kingdom Supreme Court (the ultimate appeal level in the UK legal system) has ruled in a decision of 20 December 2023 that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be identified in a patent application as the inventor. The highly-anticipated ruling follows decisions both
The post AI Cannot Be an Inventor of a UK Patent first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), a board comprised primarily of representatives of the data protection supervisory authorities of the European Union’s member states, issued surprising new guidance in mid-November explaining how a key component of the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive applies to variety of
The post Guidance from European Data Protection Board Requires Consent for Tracking first appeared on TheTMCA.com ..read more