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Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta

Eric Goldman

This is yet another online content removal lawsuit, and it reaches the obvious and inevitable result that dozens of cases have reached before it. The lawsuit against Facebook for refusing the film ads is an easy dismissal. The only question at issue is whether the lawsuit treats Facebook’s refusal as a publisher/speaker action.

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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. 2007); Shah v. A different Nathaniel White claimed that the episode improperly featured his mugshot and thus connected him to the serial killings. Google Technology, Inc.,

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

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. 2007) [19] [link] Few of the cases are discussed below. GitHub, Inc. [16]

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More Chaos in the Law of Online Contract Formation

Eric Goldman

July 31, 2023) This is a lawsuit over Blue Kai’s alleged keystroke logging on ESPN.com. The plaintiff agreed to the TOS in 2007, and the TOS said that Bleacher Report could amend the TOS by providing notice. Those factors counsel towards StubHub settling the court cases and doubling down on the arbitrations. Walt Disney Corp.

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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. Amazon.com, Inc. ,

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

The entire purpose of the discovery rule is to allow a plaintiff to recover damages that occurred more than three years before the date the lawsuit was filed. 507(b), precludes retrospective relief for acts that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit.” Two years later, in Starz Entertainment v. 4th 1236 (9th Cir.

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