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New York AG issues consumer alert ahead of Super Bowl

JURIST

It is the first major sporting event New Yorkers can bet on since the state legislature legalized online sports betting last month. James warned that “[o]nline sports betting companies that fumble their advertising to mislead New Yorkers can expect to hear from my office. Legislation is also pending in five other states.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently O

The briefs also discuss, to a limited extend, patent law’s false marking statute, 35 U.S.C. § INTA argues that the existence of the false marking statute, which prohibits deceptively marking an unpatented article as patented, supports the notion that false claims about patent protection are actionable under the Lanham Act.

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I See Dead People…Filing Lawsuits In New York

The IP Law Blog

New York’s post mortem right-of-publicity statute recently came into effect. Because the statute addressed privacy concerns that dissipated at death, such rights did not extend post mortem. News, public affairs, and sports programs are also exempt from the statute. written consent” can sue for an injunction and damages.

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Available as of next week in Recueil des cours: Mario J. A. Oyarzábal, The Influence of Public International Law upon Private International Law in History and Theory and in the Formation and Application of the Law

Conflict of Laws

Starting with the sources stated in the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the author digs into the relevance of other international sources of private international law such as community law, human rights standards and non-legally binding norms (or soft law), party autonomy and reciprocity.

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United States: What Brands Can Expect From College Sports' Ever Evolving NIL Landscape - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Mondaq

This was the first statute allowing collegiate student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness (NIL). The first domino fell in late 2019 when Governor Newsom signed The Fair Pay to Play Act into law.

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MSG ACCESS INJUNCTION VACATED

NewmanFerraraLLP

In a decision released earlier today, the Appellate Division, First Department, vacated the grant of equitable relief, finding that the statute upon which the plaintiffs relied, [ Civil Rights Law § 40-b ], only authorized the recovery of monetary damages and that the plaintiffs were thus “limited to that remedy.”

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MSG ACCESS INJUNCTION VACATED

NewmanFerraraLLP

In a decision released earlier today, the Appellate Division, First Department, vacated the grant of equitable relief, finding that the statute upon which the plaintiffs relied, [Civil Rights Law § 40-b], only authorized monetary damages and that the plaintiffs were thus “limited to that remedy.” Garden Entertainment Corp.