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After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Last year, the most important case in the history of web scraping— hiQ Labs, Inc. LinkedIn Corp. hiQ Labs I, 938 F.3d 3d 985 at 1005 ; hiQ Labs II at 43. Bright Data allegedly scraped Meta’s public data and sold it to its clients. Meta sent Bright Data a series of cease-and-desist notices telling it to stop.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

GitHub, Inc. is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. On May 11th, the court ruled on the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss , granting in part and denying in part. The court also held that plaintiffs were permitted to proceed pseudonymously.

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Section 230 Helps Substack Defeat a Defamation Claim–Smith v. Substack

Eric Goldman

This case involves the CancelWatch “blog” on Substack, which says: “We report the activists trying to ruin people’s lives and careers.” Smith has not alleged that the blog post was provided to Substack by its author for any other reason than publication. Substack is entitled to immunity. Substack Inc. ,

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Angi Can’t Dismiss Lawsuit Over Failed Vendor Authentication–Everyspace v. Encor

Eric Goldman

” Angi responded that “its alleged failure to vet the accuracy of third-party content is immunized by Section 230,” which is absolutely true. .” ” Angi responded that “its alleged failure to vet the accuracy of third-party content is immunized by Section 230,” which is absolutely true.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Eric Goldman

Eight months after filing, the first two Copyright Claims Board (CCB) Final Determinations have been handed down. Mitrakos, 22-CCB-0035 , February 15, 2023, and Oppenheimer v. Prutton, 22-CCB-0045 , February 28, 2023. Step Two: The CCB does a compliance review of the filed claim to determine if the claim qualifies for the CCB. Let’s take a look.

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Misidentified Person Loses Defamation Claim Against Tabloid–Bloom v. A360

Eric Goldman

But that is insufficient to raise an inference of actual malice, as all that those allegations plausibly suggest is a negligent failure to uncover the truth rather than a subjective awareness of falsity Nor can defendant’s alleged failure to investigate whether the photograph was of Zilis save plaintiff’s claim from dismissal.

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Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits

Eric Goldman

Those items got indexed in Google and appeared in Benedict’s vanity searches. To get around it, Todino argued that he was suing for failure to remove the postings. (I The court cites the old Lycos case for the proposition that 230 applies to failure to remove, even after notice. ” Defamation. Harassment.

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