Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

No one could have envisioned the “travelings” of a book, an article or a legal blog post. A searchable database revealed that thousands of books were used “without permission,” causing some authors to express outrage and even launch lawsuits against Meta. When successful, art exceeds its creator’s plans. So true in these days of AI.

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lennyesq

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Probably not intentional, but ‘150 person-hours’ of work were still lost Brandon Vigliarolo The New York Times has filed a letter in its copyright infringement case against OpenAI and Microsoft, alerting the court that the ChatGPT maker accidentally deleted a bunch of data that may have been evidence. Read more…

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Trellis.Law Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Walker, a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, from presiding over Disney’s lawsuit… Continue reading → The post A Tale as Old as Time: Disney and DeSantis Battle in the Courts first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’m pleased to share the final published version of my article, “ A SAD Scheme of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation.” ” The article explains how IP rightsowners are twisting the rule of law to obtain ex parte TROs that prompt online marketplaces to freeze the defendants’ cash and accounts.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 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. The plaintiffs’ allegations were sizzling.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. Courts have widely rejected claims that AI models themselves are unlawful derivatives of the copyrighted works they were trained on. [3]

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

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. Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In light of that conclusion, the court declined to rule on the parallel Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

This article gives some background on Fyk’s story). His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. The Supreme Court denied cert. Having exhausted his arguments in court twice, he launched a third expedition against Section 230. Sessions, 697 F. App’x 7 (D.C.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

The court says that Viral DRM’s exclusive “management” rights is not the same as ownership or an exclusive license to the copyright. The court says that Viral DRM doesn’t have standing to enforce the copyright. All of this discussion had a Righthaven vibe to it, and it ends up in the same place.

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Legal IT Group

APRIL 28, 2023

In March 2023, Meta Platforms lost a class action lawsuit against the Dutch Data Privacy Stichting in an Amsterdam court, acting in conjunction with the Consumentenbond, the Dutch Consumers’ Association. Those purposes must be clearly specified and communicated.” of the Dutch Telecommunications Act.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule of law. Independent lawsuits against 1,099 defendants would cost $440,000+ in filing fees.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. The court says “none of Bigfinz’s t-shirts were sold in Illinois.” The court says that’s not good enough; “the online retailer generally must have sold at least one product in Illinois for personal jurisdiction to exist here.”

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2024

US Weekly published two articles on the story and posted to Instagram. The court dismisses Bloom’s lawsuit against US Weekly. The court dismisses Bloom’s lawsuit against US Weekly. The court says these allegations aren’t enough to satisfy the actual malice standard. Defamation.

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Lawmatics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There are more than 40 million lawsuits in the United states alone every year. And only 2% of those will ultimately proceed with a lawsuit. Contract and small claims cases comprise the bulk of the civil caseload, and unfortunately, most of these lawsuits are baseless claims, also known as frivolous lawsuits.

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Clio

JANUARY 24, 2024

This issue—the source of LLM learning—was put front and center when the New York Times recently brought a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT) and Microsoft. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI used copyrighted articles from the New York Times to create “substitutive products” without their consent.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 28, 2024

” Congress enacted this requirement to restrict patent trolls who were filing lawsuits against defendants who had nothing in common but the allegation that they were infringing the same patent. Given that plaintiffs often need the filing fee savings to make SAD Scheme cases cost-effective, I expect this lawsuit to dissolve completely.

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Vogel IT Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

BankInfoSecurity.com reported “Google reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit that alleged the tech giant had misled consumers about their privacy protections when using the private browsing Incognito mode of its Chrome web browser.” ” Since +95% of all lawsuit settle without trial this is no surprise!

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The court ruled on Hyponix and NinjaSafe’s requests for damages from the bond, dismissal with prejudice, and attorneys’ fees. The court pays out some of the bond but rejects the other relief. The court noted the deficiencies in the defendants’ alleged infringement. Proximate Damage.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 19, 2024

I wonder if the court realized just how much money would be affected by its earlier orders? The court is confused enough by the mismatch between actual damages claim and the apparent profit to deny the plaintiff summary judgment. Courts often tolerate detail-less allegations like this, but they shouldn’t.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 7, 2024

Approximately 41,000 civil lawsuits are filed daily in the U.S., Read Our Article. Continue reading → The post ⚡Primer on Using State Court Trial Data for Business and Competitive Intelligence first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. and 97% circulate at the circuit and county level.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

You may have heard about Squishmallow’s recent lawsuit against Build-a-Bear over plushy knockoffs. The court says, per Taamneh v. Twitter , “the Court [referring to himself in the third person] paid insufficient heed to the requirement that Kelly Toys provide proof of the Alibaba Defendants’ knowledge.”

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 8, 2024

First, the trademark rules on the street can differ widely from the doctrines drawn up in appellate courts. The rule of law is nominally satisfied if the defense gets an opportunity to correct those errors, but in practice the SAD Scheme TRO often has irreparable consequences, and further proceedings in the court are irrelevant.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. The recent ruling in South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

” [A reminder that court-ordered identity and age verification requirements likely violate the First Amendment; the other claims may do so as well.] The court responds: The result in Lemmon makes sense, of course, because the plaintiffs there did not attempt to hold the defendant liable for publication of third-party content.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The costs of defending those lawsuits is a financial punishment with censorial consequences, even if the defendant never violated the law. The Supreme Court has held, so far, that the constitutionality of a bounty-based law cannot be challenged prospectively when there’s no risk of government enforcement.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2023

VIP Products LLC ] A trademark dispute at the Supreme Court involving a dog chew toy and a famous brand of whisky may have serious implications for trademark and free speech rights. During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on March 22, 2023 in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). See Wengui v. See Wengui v.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

” Professor Oren Bracha, speaking at the UNC School of Law JOLT Symposium, suggested that NYT’s lawsuit against OpenAI might not involve fair use, raising concerns about 17 U.S.C. § It remains unclear whether this is a timely response to the lawsuit. 102 subject matter. These inconsistencies may have real world consequences.

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NSLT

APRIL 22, 2016

A new lawsuit says Government shouldn't profit from PACER. Read the full article: Here Is A More Affordable PACER In The Near Future? Is this the end to high PACER bills?

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NSLT

APRIL 22, 2016

A new lawsuit says Government shouldn't profit from PACER. Read the full article: Here Is A More Affordable PACER In The Near Future? Is this the end to high PACER bills?

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Brett Trout

JULY 22, 2024

The lawsuit includes claims of copyright infringement (direct, vicarious, and contributory), removal of copyright management information, unfair competition by misappropriation, and trademark dilution. Hallucinations are article titles and hyperlinks purportedly promulgated by NYT but which do not, in fact, exist.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 7, 2021

This is Part 1 of a two-part article on the recent U.S. Supreme Court TransUnion decision. Individuals whose personal information was compromised in a data breach have had mixed success in bringing lawsuits in federal court against the companies that held their data. Ramirez , No. 20-297, slip op.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 21, 2024

In a plot twist, the court denies Viral DRM’s preliminary injunction request and orders Viral DRM to explain its bases for jurisdiction and joinder or else the case will fall apart. Four defendants submitted 512(g) counternotifications and thus agreed to jurisdiction in YouTube’s home court (N.D. Jurisdiction.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 13, 2024

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. The author thanks Professor Christopher Hockett, Lecturer at Berkeley Law, for his guidance on this article. By Aaron Kamath, LL.M.

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Wisblawg

MAY 28, 2024

Standing for Elections in State Courts Univ. Courts have thrown out many of these lawsuits on standing grounds. Courts have thrown out many of these lawsuits on standing grounds. But most election-related lawsuits today are filed in state court, where standing doctrine is and should be different.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 20, 2023

The court dismisses the case. Haywood argued the contract was ambiguous about Amazon’s expectations, but the court doesn’t see it: explanations surrounding the types of content a user “may” post impose no contractual duty on Amazon. See also this (uncited) article. Breach of Contract. Washington CPA.

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