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Fast Fashion Creating Even Faster Copies?: Examining Shein’s Intellectual Property and Racketeering Suit

The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

However, independent designers are accusing Shein of something much more sinister: systematic and rampant intellectual property theft amounting to racketeering. We will vigorously defend ourselves against this lawsuit and any claims that are without merit.” Shein is no stranger to lawsuits. What’s Next?

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Automating web compliance is much easier than we believe

Global LegalTech Hub

This workload even makes teams neglect and put compliance aside while focusing on other processes, leading to potential lawsuits and penalties. As online compliance regulations grow in variety and complexity, businesses need to get their priorities back together.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

LawSites

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. Series of Meetings.

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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

Valuable information—like trade secrets, intellectual property, merger and acquisition details, personally identifiable information (PII), and confidential attorney-client-privileged data —attracts the ill-intentioned to your firm. Data security failures can also have incredibly negative consequences for your clients.

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. Getty, an image licensing service, has brought a lawsuit against the creators of art-generating AI “Stable Diffusion” in a US federal court, alleging that the tool unlawfully copied and processed millions of images, violating its copyright in the images.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 3d 585 (S.D.N.Y.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., See Ochoa, Dr. Seuss, the Juice and Fair Use Revisited , 59 IDEA 233 (2018).)

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