Settlement Agreement Update Between the DOJ and Meta - The Consumer Finance Podcast
A Close Look at the Justice Department’s Settlement with Meta (Formerly Facebook) to Resolve Alleged Fair Housing Act Violations Arising from Meta’s Targeted Advertising System
Recent Trends in TCPA Litigation - The Consumer Finance Podcast
[LEGAL MARKETING MOMENTS] Recent Changes In Social and Digital Media
Takeaways From Recent Claims Against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook – Mitigating the Heightened Risk of Privacy Suits Against Individual Directors and Officers
Daily Compliance News: September 10, 2020-a Bad Day for M&A edition
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
Life With GDPR: Special Emergency Valentine’s Day Edition-Facebook Dawn Raid in Ireland
This Week in FCPA-Episode 164, week ending July 26, 2019 – the Microsoft and Facebook settle edition
Compliance into the Weeds: Episode 130- Corrosive Subcultures
Top Five Corporate Scandals of 2018: Episode III-Facebook’s Drip, Drip, Drip
Daily Compliance News: November 18, 2018-Facebook Attacks
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 76, Facebook CISO and Ethical Behavior
The Ever-Expanding Scope of Social Media Discovery
Yul Kwon, Head of @Facebook's Privacy Program & CBS 'Survivor' Winner, Opens Up On @HsuUntied
Should an employer have a written social media policy?
Employer Okay in Firing Employee for Private Facebook Post Reported by Coworker
Polsinelli Podcast - Social Media at Work - What's Allowed and What Isn't?
[Legal Perspective] When Is It NOT Okay to Delete Your Social Media Account?
Serving Legal Documents Through Social Media
Comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden recently filed class-action lawsuits against Meta Platforms (parent company of Facebook) and ChatGPT maker OpenAI (backed by Microsoft Corp.) for...more
Mit dem Urheberrechts-Diensteanbieter-Gesetz (UrhDaG) wird ein völlig neues Haftungsregime in Deutschland etabliert. In diesem Beitrag werfen wir nun einen näheren Blick auf die Voraussetzungen, unter denen Diensteanbieter...more
Wie ist der aktuelle Gesetzgebungsstand zum Urheberrecht? Spätestens seitdem das Bundeskabinett im Februar 2021 seinen Gesetzesentwurf zur Reform des Urheberrechts vorgestellt hat, dürfte die anstehende Reform auch...more
Nach dem Bundestag hat am 28.05.2021 nunmehr auch der Bundesrat den Gesetzesentwurf zur Anpassung des Urheberrechts an die Erfordernisse des digitalen Binnenmarktes mit der erforderlichen Mehrheit verabschiedet. Die...more
Sharing images on Instagram and other social network platforms is such a common practice that we do it without hardly even thinking about it. But we must be aware that sharing a piece of creative content (picture, text, etc.)...more
Social Links is our ongoing series here at Socially Aware that rounds up current developments at the intersection of social media, policy, research, and the law. Embedding social media posts can be considered copyright...more
- What will the “Endgame” be for the lawsuit between Walt Disney Company and former Marvel comic book creators? In the spring of this year, a host of famed artists and illustrators of Marvel characters such as Iron Man,...more
Throughout the United States, people are eagerly preparing for this Memorial Day Weekend (MDW), which marks the unofficial start of summer (not to mention those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country). If you listen...more
A recent case in the Southern District of New York calls into serious question the ubiquitous practice of embedding photographs on a content creator’s website. An embedded photo is one that is not hosted on the website’s...more
A federal district court judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., dismissed the complaint in a case filed by Genius, a platform that lets users share and annotate lyrics, holding that the plaintiff’s claims were preempted by copyright law....more
Over the past year, clients have experienced an increase in “copyright trolling,” which refers to the practice by some plaintiff law firms of using algorithms or other digital fingerprint technology to search or “troll” for...more
Now more than ever before, almost everyone is online, both personally and for business purposes. There is a lot of confusion about posting pictures and images on social media - Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and other...more
In the age of COVID-19 and social distancing, people and businesses are turning to technology to engage with their communities. Fitness instructors are leading workouts via Instagram Live. Churches are offering live-streamed...more
Many of the world’s leading technology companies have signed on to the “Open COVID Pledge,” which calls for companies to make intellectual property licensable for free for purposes of ending and minimizing the impact of the...more
Based on copyright infringement, emotional distress and other claims, a federal district court in California awarded $6.4 million to a victim of revenge porn, the posting of explicit material without the subject’s consent....more
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a North Carolina law that the state has used to prosecute more than 1,000 sex offenders for posting on social media is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment....more
One year since agreeing with the European Commission to remove hate speech within 24 hours of receiving a complaint about it, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are removing flagged content an average of 59% of the...more
Without Google’s permission, Burger King ended one of its television commercials with a statement designed to automatically cause Google Assistant devices to read a list of the Whopper’s ingredients out loud. Having passed...more
In 2014, Anheuser-Busch ran a contest on Facebook in which consumers were invited to submit photos of themselves “acting natural.” The contest rules stated that entrants could only submit their original works, and that the...more
Facebook introduced technology that disables ad blockers used by people who visit the platform via desktop computers, but Adblock Plus has already foiled the platform’s efforts, at least for now....more
Mixed Messages: Courts Grapple With Emoticons and Emoji - Emoticon and emoji are ubiquitous in online and mobile communications; according to one study, 74 percent of Americans use emoticons, emoji and similar images...more
Several companies cast an eye toward the Internet of Things, Twitter’s AI gets pretty good at live video, some industry giants get behind the driverless car, and more … Samsung launches a place in the cloud just for...more
The "Dancing Baby" Case—Ninth Circuit Rules That "Fair Use" Must First Be Considered Before Sending Takedown Notices Under the DMCA - Why it matters: On September 14, 2015, the Ninth Circuit ruled in Lenz v. Universal...more
Social media platforms are very useful, but they also create legal issues. Without question, social media has changed the way businesses communicate with their clients and consumers. Likewise, social media has changed the way...more
Users of Facebook no doubt have seen at least some of their friends post the “copyright” update. In brief, the post states “I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details,” including photos,...more