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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s: Don’t Let Copyright Law Be Used Against Your Content Marketing

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A “DMCA takedown notice” from GMO-full Food Co. then filed a DMCA takedown notice with Automattic requesting that the post be taken down on the grounds of copyright infringement. The hosting service can’t be sued directly for copyright infringement if it complies with the DMCA takedown procedure. s abuse of the DMCA system.

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Tumblr Shuts Down Popular Blogger: Who's Next?

Hubspot

That’s exactly what happened to a popular blogger who goes by the name Bohemea. Worse, Bohemea claims other Tumblr bloggers have been similarly wiped out. As my colleague Pamela Vaughan recently reported, it’s pretty easy to use copyrighted material incorrectly, even if you have the best intentions.

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How Big Brands – With Help From Google & Yahoo – Finance Online Piracy

readwrite

The results, which named Google and Yahoo among the top offenders, used Google’s own Transparency Report to name the 10 ad networks with most takedown requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for copyright infringement on pirated sites. But the general public has been relatively in the dark. .

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