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JUNE 2016
Periscope: can its free and indiscriminate use create legal problems?

Periscope: can its free and indiscriminate use create legal problems?


Spain
”The platform itself is not illegal; it’s how we use it that can be illicit”, Joaquín Muñoz, New Technologies and Intellectual Property.

Periscope is all the rage. The video livestreaming platform, owned by Twitter, has emerged as one of the most popular social networking services. In fact, its popularity has prompted the publication PR Noticias to ask: Is the application legal or is it its free use that violates our rights? Joaquín Muñoz, who runs Ontier's New Technologies & IP practice, explains the issue for us in this article.



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