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

Eric Goldman

After hearing this allegation at least twice, the Court instructed plaintiffs’ counsel to go present proof of such a bribe and to specifically subpoena the banks that were allegedly involved in laundering the bribe. This is the basic reason that summary judgment, at long last, must be GRANTED to Meta defendants.

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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. This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech. This case represents the latter circumstance.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. The case law in the Ninth Circuit — the other appellate circuit central to developing copyright law, especially regarding new technologies — seems to support the Seventh Circuit’s majority approach.

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Decoding Justice: Key Differences Between Civil and Criminal Litigation

CaseFox

Have you ever found yourself curious about the legal stuff you hear about? The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. Employment law, for example, where an employee suffers discrimination.

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Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: AI, Employees and an Integrated Defense – With SessionGuardian’s Jordan Ellington and Oren Leib, and Katten’s Trisha Sircar (TGIR Ep. 211)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Marlene Gebauer 9:21 So Jordan, or Oren, or both of you, and I’m very interested in hearing the answer to this this question because, you know, just we’ve heard so much about these certifications in the past. But you know, why do you think ISO and sock two certifications are not sufficient anymore for law firms?

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Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: AI, Employees and an Integrated Defense – With SessionGuardian’s Jordan Ellington and Oren Leib, and Katten’s Trisha Sircar (TGIR Ep. 211)

Legal Tech Monitor

Marlene Gebauer 9:21 So Jordan, or Oren, or both of you, and I’m very interested in hearing the answer to this this question because, you know, just we’ve heard so much about these certifications in the past. But you know, why do you think ISO and sock two certifications are not sufficient anymore for law firms?

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

Generative AI has transformed how people around the world work; how they create; and what they see, hear, and watch online. Although plaintiffs have been dealt some setbacks, they have responded by bringing new legal claims against a broader class of defendants, making clear that there is no end in sight to these disputes.