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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

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.” Nealy , No.

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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. The court agrees with Microsoft. ’…the trial court was correct to grant summary judgment finding Microsoft immune from Mr. Pataki, 514 F. 2007); Shah v.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Eric Goldman

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM.

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Internet Access Providers Can Be Contributorily Liable for Subscribers’ Infringements–Sony Music v. Cox

Eric Goldman

With the CAS’s demise, both sides essentially bet that the courts would side with them. The appeals court rejected the vicarious claims but upheld the contributory claims. Vicarious Infringement The appeals court says that Cox lacked the requisite “direct financial interest” in subscribers’ infringements.

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More Chaos in the Law of Online Contract Formation

Eric Goldman

The district court said that the buyers who made their purchases on the website had to go to arbitration, but the buyers who made their purchases on their mobile devices could stay in court. The court says it’s immaterial that there is a potentially long time delay between user registration and the purchases. Sadlock v.

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Don’t Be Late and Ineffective with Litigation Holds

Joshua Gilliland

The City of New York, 50 unnamed NYPD officers, and the former NYPD Commissioner are involved in a civil rights lawsuit over allegedly issuing summonses without probable cause, violating the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. In all, the Court noted a total of fewer than 25 emails produced from key players.

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Deploying Cutting-Edge Legal AI: Travers Smith’s Cautious, But Open-source Approach. (TGIR Ep. 216)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

But when you’ve got a decentralized process, like common law, where you’ve got a circuit court in the foothills of Wisconsin with one judge and one local solicitor. And the judge, or the clerk of the court, whoever writes up the judgment, misspelled the word read. And the chance of that happening is low. Shawn Curren 33:12 Yeah, yeah.

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