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But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. one (atypical) case filed in 2024, Raw Story Media, Inc.
Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the games continued distribution?
This lawsuit seeks to hold Letgo liable for the murders. Indeed, it’s troubling to see plaintiffs litigating over a service’s efforts to “verify” users, because we generally want services to undertake authentication and verification services when they enhance site trustworthiness and safety. Negligence.
A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation , 2024 WL 4532937 (N.D. Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation , 4:22-md-03047-YGR (N.D. I’m sure the appellate court will be eager to docket this one.
Brett Trout In a recent decision by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (CoA) dated December 20, 2024, the court underscored the critical importance of precise patent drafting. The case involved Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which faced significant challenges to its patent due to inaccuracies in its patent claims.
” That prompted this litigation. CPUSA2, LLC , 2024 WL 2836241 (S.D. June 4, 2024) BONUS: RVC Floor Decor, Ltd. 2024 WL 2847139 (E.D.N.Y. June 5, 2024). Adler v McNeil * Court Denies Injunction in Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit–Nursing CE Central v. ” The right answer should be “no one.”
This well-publicized lawsuit is an example of Musk waging lawfare over a critic’s speech. As a result, the court finds that much of the lawsuit is a SLAPP. If the case stands on appeal, Twitter will write a check to CCDH to compensate it for the litigation harms Twitter has imposed on it. “X Corp.
The user took the matter to court (pro se), where the lawsuit failed: Contract Breach. This becomes yet another unsuccessful account termination/content removal lawsuit. This creates a lot of costly and distracting litigation, even if the courts ultimately reject the claims–another collateral cost of the regulatory intervention.
Though the court doesn’t discuss any of the precedent cases, the court is addressing the well-litigated question of whether online marketplaces are legally responsible as the “seller” of marketplace items. GMB is not the party renting the vessel; rather, it is Chaves who rents the vessel. LEXIS 23688 (S.D.
It is an all-out brawl in federal court, with no-expense-spared battles over each and every picayune litigation issue. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts. Their claims were always overreaching and never meritorious in my mind.
2024 WL 3914512 (C.D. July 31, 2024) The trademark owner Alsa sells chrome paint. Rock Top Holdings, LLC , 2024 WL 3599064 (D. Utah July 31, 2024) The parties compete to sell countertops. Are the parties seriously going to litigate this to a trial? A couple of keyword ad cases from a couple of months ago.
For example, I remain irritated about the BIPA lawsuits to try to prevent Internet services from using anti-CSAM blocklists and face scans for age authentication purposes. Selected BIPA Blog Posts AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v. Amazon Facebook Defeats BIPA Face-Scanning Lawsuit–Zellmer v.
In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. After 8 years of litigation, the case ends on essentially a procedural technicality (an important one, but still…). 2024 WL 3331649 (N.D. Google Inc.
In the last year, a team of California litigators (from Singleton Schreiber in Sacramento and Law Offices of Thomas Leary from San Diego) has launched 1670.8 I don’t know how many lawsuits they’ve filed because the team is filing many (all?) Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC, 2024 WL 1122415 (C.D. 2024 WL 1430251 (C.D.
Warby Parker, part of 1-8oo Contacts’ irrepressible efforts to revive the litigation genre. I hope this ruling will be persuasive to other courts so that we can finally and permanently put this chapter to rest after 2+ decades of pointless litigation. the dollar value of the clicks at issue is well below the costs of litigation).
Understanding Litigation Finance Litigation finance is when a third-party invests in a lawsuit in hopes of sharing in the profits of a successful verdict. litigation finance companies exist. billion in capital to litigation matters. billion in capital to litigation matters.
Law firms that develop expertise in areas like opioid litigation, nursing home negligence, and emerging vehicle technologies will be well-positioned to help clients affected by these issues. An estimated 29,135 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes for the first nine months of 2024 ( National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ).
. " Legal Counsel: Navigating the Risks of AI" (2024). " Technology Takes Class-Action Lawsuits Out of the Slow Lane " (2024). This piece examines how technology is streamlining complex litigation processes, particularly in class-action lawsuits, and the implications for legal practice. "
Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.
Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. It’s expected to go live in Q1 of 2024.
In my previous post , I summarized: This lawsuit involves troubling allegations that Facebook executives ( allegedly , Nick Clegg, Nicola Mendelsohn, and Cristian Perrella) took bribes from OnlyFans-related entities to spike Facebook and Instagram posts that promoted competitors of OnlyFans. Instagram, LLC, 2024 U.S. LEXIS 171462 (N.D.
2024* On March 21, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which could have significant ramifications on the smartphone ecosystem. By Aaron Kamath, LL.M.
” “Plaintiff’s timing in filing and dismissing its lawsuit suggests an improper purpose… Plaintiff’s delay in filing the TRO undercuts its supposed urgency, suggesting instead that Plaintiff timed its filing to sideline its competitors during a busy sales season. That’s unacceptable. Emoji GmbH v.
There are hundreds of pixel lawsuits in the courts right now (and surely more to come after a ruling like this). This sounds like the recipe for an infinite litigation machine. If all pixels and cookies could give rise to litigation, the obvious solution would be to get user consent to place them.
The FTC is also holding a virtual summit on January 25, 2024 to discuss key developments in AI and how those developments impact competition and consumers. Litigation Risks In addition to regulatory scrutiny, companies also face the prospect of civil litigation regarding misrepresentations relating to their use of AI.
This situation often resulted in threatened or actual litigation and always meant a war of words in the form of contract letters numbering in the hundreds from both sides. And then any actual litigation would drag on for years after the project ended. Howard Carsman , Intel Third Party Neutral Program Presentation, 2022. Juetten, Esq.
You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. That would collapse the FRCP 65’s restriction on binding non-litigants who have not been subjected to judicial process. 19885566 Store, 2024 WL 532290 (S.D.N.Y. 9, 2024) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme N.D.
My previous summary of this litigation campaign: His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. Fyk argued that the law regarding anticompetitive animus had changed during his 6-year-long litigation quest, citing the Enigma v. 2024 WL 5074905 (9th Cir. The Supreme Court denied cert.
I’d love to see an accounting of the time and money the parties have spent on this litigation. Gutman , 2024 WL 172609 (2d Cir. 17, 2024) Selected Related Posts : Who Owns Social Media Accounts? Nankivell Court Declines to Dismiss or Transfer Lawsuit Over @OMGFacts Twitter Account — Deck v. Spartz, Inc.
That is, up until 2024. In early 2024, board game publisher Cotsworld Games launched a crowdfunding campaign on Gamefound for its newest game “Meeple, Inc.” Interestingly, in filing their trademark application, on May 30, 2024, Ms. The Cease-and-Desist letter All was well and good in the world of meeple.
Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. On the privacy front, Nita Farahany is a leading expert in neurotechnology who has concerns in this area, which she laid out at the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference. In April 2024, Colorado enacted a law protecting the privacy of neural data.
[Hong Kong, October 22, 2024] – Lineal, a global leader in eDiscovery and legal data intelligence, is thrilled to announce its official expansion into China, offering in-country data hosting and comprehensive eDiscovery services. market, Lineal offers cutting-edge tools to manage vast amounts of data across multiple plaintiffs.
(Forthcoming, 2024) by MIRIAM SEIFTER , UW Law School, and Adam B. Sopko, State Democracy Research Initiative Election-related litigation is soaring. Litigants regularly challenge every aspect of an election cycle, from who can vote to how votes are cast and counted to the certification of results. 1805 (2024) by WILLIAM H.
For instance, machine learning can predict litigation risks based on similar cases, identify trends that might impact a client, or flag unusual clauses in contracts that might need extra attention. Theyre especially helpful for lawsuits or investigations that involve large amounts of information. So, why the slow adoption?
The plaintiffs lost al of the framing cases then, but here we are in 2024, still litigating framing cases. In my prior blog post, I said: “Underlying this litigation is an epistemological question: what does a “canonical” version of a web page look like? That lawsuit also failed. ” That’s true.
Many public companies are starting to face increased risks of securities class action litigation based on statements about their use of AI that are alleged to have been false or misleading. In particular, the SEC has stated that AI is one of its examination priorities for 2024, and recently brought its first AI-related fraud cases.
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 IP & Innovation L.
May 9, 2024). 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.” Warner Chappell Music, Inc. Nealy , No.
Roberts Its become known as the sad beige lawsuit or the case that asks the question can you ever really own an aesthetic ? Some attorneys speculate that the sad beige influencer litigation could lead to a deluge of similar suits. by guest blogger Alexandra J. Sydney Nicole LLC v. Alyssa Sheil LLC , 1:24-cv-00423-RP (W.D.
Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. It’s expected to go live in Q1 of 2024.
2) As of February 2024, five states have community-based justice workers, all with varied training requirements, scope of service, and regulatory oversight. who help self-represented litigants in state courts.(9) 51) A parallel litigation effort is also underway in two U.S. Both innovations were made possible without UPL reform.
The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. I hope lower courts will aggressively gatekeep trademark owner lawsuits over competitive keyword advertising to reduce this lawfare risk. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy.
Algorithms are trained on large datasets, which enables them to identify patterns and make predictions related to legal issues, such as identifying potential contract disputes or optimal litigation strategies. What’s driving legal innovation? No unnecessary details should be stored in any system.
Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. Two prior blog posts on Bell’s litigation efforts: Fair Use Protects High Schools Use of Inspirational MemeBell v. It contained a passage that has become a meme in the sports community. Bell has separately registered a copyright in the passage.
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