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Constitutional Clash: Supreme Court’s Review of State Laws Targeting Social Media Platforms and Free Speech

Trellis.Law Blog

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case concerning laws passed in Florida and Texas over whether state governments are allowed to create rules to address social media companies’ alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints on their platforms.…

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Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care

Trellis.Law Blog

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. As such, those who destroy embryos could be held liable for wrongful death.

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

Eric Goldman

Furthermore, the court determined that Facebook’s survival clause did not explicitly cover scraping after the termination of Bright Data’s accounts. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. 301(a) , which preempts state laws “equivalent” to copyright. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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

Eric Goldman

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Legal Blog: How ChatGPT Can Help Lawyers Develop a Business Development Niche

Kevin O'Keefe

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. The tighter the niche the better.

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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. copyright law protects only works of human authorship, and the defendant, Stephen Thaler, expressly told the Copyright Office that the work at issue, titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” “lack[ed] traditional human authorship.” Perlmutter , No.

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Constitutional Clash: Supreme Court’s Review of State Laws Targeting Social Media Platforms and Free Speech

Legal Tech Monitor

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case concerning laws passed in Florida and Texas over whether state governments are allowed to create rules to address social media companies’ alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints on their platforms.