Photographer Sues News Agency For Embedding A Tweet Containing His Photo
A lawsuit filed against a news website over an embedded tweet sounds an awful lot like the vindictive, moronic move of someone who thought complaining about a perfectly legal action would somehow...
View ArticleTerrible Copyright Ruling Over An Embedded Tweet Undermines Key Concept Of...
Just earlier this week we noted that a judge easily laughed Playboy’s silly lawsuit out of court because merely linking to infringing content is not infringing itself. But a judge in New York, Judge...
View ArticleAppeals Court Won't Yet Review Awful District Court Decision That Says...
Back in February we wrote about an absolutely horrible ruling out of a New York court by Judge Katherine Forrest that argued embedding an infringing tweet could be an act of infringement on its own....
View ArticleFacebook Allowing French Censors To Embed With The Company, And Maybe That's...
While much of the attention around French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on Monday was focused on the so-called “Paris Call” agreement on cybersecurity, it...
View ArticleSettlement In Tom Brady Photo Case Leaves Issue Of Copyright On Embedded...
A little over a year ago, we wrote about a pretty bad ruling in NY, by Judge Katherine Forrest, arguing that merely embedding content on a site — even though it’s hosted elsewhere — could be deemed...
View ArticleMathew Higbee Cuts And Runs When Finally Challenged On A Questionable Shakedown
Last month, we wrote about a declaratory judgment lawsuit that had been filed against a client of Mathew Higbee. As we’ve discussed at length, Higbee runs “Higbee & Associates” which is one of the...
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The Associated Press Has Some Explaining To Do About Its 'Tweeted Contract'...
Five years ago, we wrote a post detailing the crazy permission-asking media scrum that forms on Twitter when people post photographic or video documentation of something major happening. Under such...
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Why Embedding Content Matters
Imagine waking up in the morning, grabbing your hot cup of coffee, and scrolling your favorite blog post or website, only to find it looking like this: Images are missing. Video content is not there....
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Elon’s (Good?) New DMCA Policy Appears To Be The Result Of Lots Of Confusion...
On Monday, I saw Elon Musk tweet the following, and initially thought that he might have actually made a good policy decision for once, and planned to write up something about Elon doing something...
View Article9th Circuit Rejects Claims Of Copyright Infringement Against Instagram’s...
There have been some ongoing debates (going back many years) in the copyright space regarding whether or not embedding infringing content into a website could be infringing in and of itself. If you...
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