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After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

After two trips to the 9th Circuit, a remand from the Supreme Court, and nearly six years of motions and posturing, the outcome of the litigation was a permanent injunction against hiQ, a win for LinkedIn, and insolvency for scraper hiQ Labs. The court dismissed the market division argument on the grounds that it was time barred.

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Judge Pushes Back on SAD Scheme Sealing Requests

Eric Goldman

Judge Seeger starts by reinforcing the importance of judicial transparency: “A party who wants to depart from that longstanding tradition, and litigate in secret, must carry a heavy burden.” Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A, 2013 WL 12314399 (N.D.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Eric Goldman

We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. ” The district court granted summary judgment to IJR. Nature of Use.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. Do courts fully reopen or not? Also last year, the Minnesota Supreme Court approved a pilot project to permit “legal paraprofessionals” to provide legal services in certain matters.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

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We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. Why Even Do This Project?

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Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 3

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on March 8, 2013, and what it meant to the authors and to the broader movement for innovation in law. Watching the 2013 presentations about disruption of legal services might not be very shocking, because the format, the presentation, and the topics have become so widely adopted that they seem like they have always been around.

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