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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. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

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A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. To the contrary, the company says that Agnello stole its idea after it gave him a demonstration of the software in 2019.

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Legal Ads Surge as Plaintiff Lawyers Pursue Mass Litigation Cases

Legal Expert Connections

For instance, during the height of lawsuits targeting Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller in 2019, the industry spent nearly $300 million on television spots. X Ante, a firm specializing in mass tort advertising research, tracked this surge in ad spending. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.

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Patents over Patients: How Pharmaceutical Companies use the Patent System to Keep Drug Costs High

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

16] Companies accomplish this by first suing generic-manufacturing companies for patent infringement, and then settling the lawsuit by paying them to stay out of the market in what is known as a reverse-payment settlement. [17] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

This brings up a myriad of intellectual property concerns. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8] In fact, we have created the image for this blog post using Bing’s AI based image creator.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

2019 WL 3555509 (D. The Internet is awash in lawsuits related to this collection of data. If content or data is not kept beneath a log-in (and thus entitled to protection via the CFAA and most state computer-trespass laws), it should be protectible only insofar as it is subject to existing intellectual property laws. (To

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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

And that’s one thing, providing it a change control clause, which is proprietary, valuable intellectual property for that organization. As these lawsuits get brought to open AI. And as you wrote in tonight, there’s 2019 law before LLMs became a thing. And in asking it to provide some analysis on that.

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