Most major universities have developed extremely lucrative business empires by exploiting the use of their trademarks and trade dress on apparel and merchandise, among other things. They have done so on the theory that the...more
5/7/2025
/ Appeals ,
College Athletes ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Goods or Services ,
Lanham Act ,
Merchandising Rights ,
Sports ,
Trademark Infringement ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademarks ,
Universities
Trends may come and go, but TikTok is likely here to stay. With many people stuck inside during the pandemic and needing inspiration for new hobbies, they turned to TikTok for recipes, books, dances, fashion, makeup and hair,...more
4/12/2022
/ Commercial Use ,
Copyright ,
Digital Media ,
DMCA ,
Licensing Rights ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
Musical Sound Recordings ,
Social Media ,
Takedown Notices ,
TikTok
When President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 into law on December 27, 2020, more than COVID-19 relief went into effect. The omnibus bill also included the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 and the...more
Online Service Providers Re-File Your DMCA Agent Designations to Prevent Expiration -
If your company has a website that allows third parties to post any kind of content (text, pictures or video), then it may be liable...more
5/19/2017
/ Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Office ,
Digital Media ,
DMCA ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Popular ,
Safe Harbors ,
Social Media ,
Third-Party Risk ,
User-Generated Content ,
Websites
The European Court of Justice has declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement that has governed EU data flows across the Atlantic for the last 15 years. Thousands of U.S. companies have relied on the Safe Harbor...more
10/23/2015
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Binding Corporate Rules ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Model Contracts ,
National Security ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Privacy ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework