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Section 230 and the First Amendment Curtail An Online Videogame Addiction Lawsuit–Angelilli v. Activision

Eric Goldman

Seeking redress, Plaintiffs sued Defendants on the theory that their design decisions and failure to disclose the dangers of their products were the cause of D.G.s Plaintiffs further allege that D.G.s gaming has resulted in serious harm, including emotional distress, lost friends, and problems in school. addiction and Plaintiffs injuries.

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Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v. Twitter

Eric Goldman

. “Plaintiff seeks to hold Twitter liable for decisions regarding “information provided by another information content provider”—that is, information he and the third-party user, rather than Twitter, provided.” 23, 2023) The post Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v. Facebook and Murphy v.

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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. These allegations raise questions of fact as to what Angi did with the information provided by Encor before Encor was listed or promoted as “certified” on Angi’s platform.

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

Eric Goldman

The court dismisses Bloom’s lawsuit against US Weekly. Elon Musk “secretly” fathered twins with his subordinate Shivon Zilis. When the news came to light, it triggered a “tabloid feeding frenzy.” US Weekly published two articles on the story and posted to Instagram. Defamation.

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Services Aren’t Liable for Ignoring the DMCA’s 512(g) Counternotification Procedures–Hopson v. Google

Eric Goldman

Google stripped out the notices’ identifying information and forwarded the notices to Hopson. The court dismisses the lawsuit. Failure to Honor Counternotice. The court says Google’s “alleged failure to comply with § 512(g) does not create direct liability for any violation of plaintiffs’ rights.

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

Eric Goldman

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. Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. GitHub, Inc.

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Snapchat Isn’t Liable for Offline Sexual Abuse–VV v. Meta

Eric Goldman

Similarly, allegations of failure to warn of an application’s potential danger do not remove the “publisher” status. Similarly, allegations of failure to warn of an application’s potential danger do not remove the “publisher” status. She sued Snapchat for her harms. Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds.