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Inspire.Legal 2019

Legal Talk Network

pic.twitter.com/qnoc9lqYU9 — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 1, 2019. Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 1, 2019. … Christian Lang of #InspireLegal stops by to disrupt perceptions about legal innovation.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

First, the court held that the damages X incurred (primarily the loss of advertisers after CCDH published negative reports using scraped data) were unforeseeable when the ToS were agreed upon in 2019. A Brief Recap on Contract Preemption To appreciate the significance of this opinion, let’s revisit the law of copyright preemption.

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Section 230 Once Again Immunizes Google’s Search Results–Metroka v. PA Law Enforcement

Eric Goldman

” The court summarizes: “Google has immunity from her state law claims, as it cannot be held liable for search engine results showing a third party’s statement.” 2019 WL 5595037 (S.D.N.Y. 2019); White v. Pennsylvania State Law Enforcement, 2023 WL 3767745 (E.D. 2016); Manchanda v.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

I did a deep dive on this topic in December , but the general gist of it is that copyright law preempts state law claims if the state-law claims come within the general scope of copyright. s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. The ToS did not define “scraping.”

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Hochul and Adams face off over foie gras–Politico

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By JEFF COLTIN The New York City Council passed, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law, a bill banning the sale and serving of foie gras in November 2019. It was set to take effect three years later, in November 2022, but the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets ordered the city to foie greddaboudit.

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Allegations of a Bribe-Driven Facebook-OnlyFans Conspiracy Unsurprisingly Fall Apart in Court–Dangaard v. Instagram

Eric Goldman

It would have been easy to save the list at the end of each day.

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Protecting Privacy of a New Corporate Asset: User DNA

Berkley Technology Law Journal

By 2019, more than 26 million people have added their DNA to a commercial ancestry and health database, amassing large collections of DNA in privately held companies. Genetic privacy is currently governed by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and state laws.