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In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. ” Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel.
Twitter’s TOS terms “clearly disclaim any responsibility for Twitter’s failure to store or transmit content.” ” Whether this lawsuit is only about the account suspension or also includes the loss of data access, it winds up as another failed lawsuit over account terminations and content removals. .”
” “Plaintiff appears to argue Twitter’s placement of information in “social media feeds” renders it an information content provider. “[P]roliferation and dissemination of content does not equal creation or development of content.”” 23, 2023) The post Lawsuit Over Twitter Suspension Fails Again–Zhang v.
Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. 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 Benedict v. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. July 16, 2024) Lance Benedict is a musician. Harassment.
” 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.
This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable for their alleged inaction in response to some reports. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. Strict Products Liability.
Lloyd sued Facebok for a variety of claims (I initially described the suit as “a standard kitchen-sink pro se lawsuit against Facebook”). Neither the statutory language nor the case law suggests that applicability of 230(c)(1) turns on the type of third-party speech involved. Lloyd’s breach-of-contract claim.”
.” For reasons unclear to me, the plaintiff thought it would be a good idea to sue Amazon over its competitors’ alleged misdeeds, going so far to breathlessly issue a press release that it had “filed a $500 million lawsuit against tech giant Amazon.” They have raised a total of $150 of their $500k goal. Google opinion.
Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts. Ultimately, I understand why the school districts joined the lawsuit–on the can’t hurt, might help theory that maybe they could get a little money for no additional work on their part.
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.
Plaintiff does not show that the alleged Marks appear anywhere else on Walmart.com apart from where they are inputted as search terms. This seems like a great case for the court to issue a fee shift to Walmart given the trademark owner’s absolute failure to show any harm. Seriously, dude? Fire, ready, aim. Cites to Sen v.
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. Google appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Cites to Martin v.
“Duffer seeks to hold Nextdoor, a service provider, liable for its failure to remove material posted by users of its website. . “Duffer seeks to hold Nextdoor, a service provider, liable for its failure to remove material posted by users of its website. Nextdoor appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
[These are my rough-draft talk notes from a recent workshop of trademark law professors.] As another example of the significance of non-appellate law, Google’s trademark policy is the de facto trademark law of online keyword advertising. Second, the SAD Scheme is swallowing up the rest of trademark law.
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.
Today was the 2023 Super Bowl of Internet Law at the U.S. FN: I say the 2023 Super Bowl because the Supreme Court necessarily will be taking Internet Law cases every term for the foreseeable future, and each new Internet Law case they take has the capacity to rock our world.] Supreme Court [FN]. Taamneh and Gonzalez v.
” As the court then explains, there are many circumstances where it’s perfectly appropriate to do so, and where the failure to do so would allow the putative copyright owner to weaponize the court system. Previous blog post. The Ninth Circuit reverses. I hope the anti-dismissal sentence is rightly ignored as dicta).
In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. But DoNotPay — represented by real, not robot, lawyers — moved to dismiss the lawsuit, asserting that MillerKing lacked standing to sue it in federal court.
This is another lawsuit involving the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs. (Q: In this lawsuit, BAYC sued an “appropriation artist,” Ripps, who sought to comment on anti-Semitic aspects of the BAYC NFTs. I’ve documented dozens of ways that 512(f) claims have failed, so the failure of this claim isn’t surprising.
This well-publicized lawsuit is an example of Musk waging lawfare over a critic’s speech. As a result, the court finds that much of the lawsuit is a SLAPP. By declaring the lawsuit a SLAPP, the court concludes that Twitter misused the court system in an attempt to suppress CCDH’s speech.
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.
“Cruise”ing for “Waymo” Lawsuits: Liability in Autonomous Vehicle Crashes By Caroline Kropka On October 2, 2023, a driverless vehicle traveled down a San Francisco street. [1] 1] The taxi was one of around 950 autonomous Cruise (a robotaxi service owned by General Motors) vehicles operating across the United States by October of that year. [2]
Moreover, the enumerated terms are all items that JLM might conceivably sell to the public and appear to be presumptively copyrightable. The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM.
Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. You’ll notice that this post gets increasingly surly as the cumulative effect of the judicial inanity weighed on me. August 9, 2023) This case involves StubHub’s obligations to provide refunds due to COVID cancellations. Citing Sellers v.
The categorization of social media accounts into “business” and “personal” accounts was a hot issue a decade ago, when states across the country passed laws to protect employees from invasive employer demands to access or control their personal social media accounts. The court doesn’t endorse this test.
The court dismisses the lawsuit against Amazon. Speedpera, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This case involves the tragic suicide of two teenagers, both of whom died by consuming sodium nitrite they purchased from a third-party Amazon merchant (Loudwolf). However, in undiluted form, it’s toxic.
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As I’ve previously written, for many years after the DMCA passed, everyone assumed that 17 USC 512(a) completely shielded Internet access providers from liability for subscribers’ copyright infringements. If 512(a) provided full immunity, the Copyright Alert System was unnecessary and pernicious to both IAPs and their subscribers.
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Since the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) 18 months ago, more than 75 lawsuits have been filed seeking damages using the Act’s private cause of action. The CCPA provides a cause of action to “[a]ny consumer whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information.
This year’s Show gave every appearance of being back to the full throttle pre-pandemic version. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been Wayne Gretzky Last week, I was back at the sprawling CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. CES goes out of its way to accommodate the media.
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To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. [Eric’s note: this is the post you’ve been waiting for: Prof. Goldsmith , No. 21-869 (May 18, 2023). 569 (1994).
I’ve blogged so many pro se lawsuits by suspended Twitter users and they all end the same. June 8, 2023) The post Section 230 Ends Another Suspended Twitter User’s Lawsuit–Zhang v. Twitter appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. I’m blogging this ruling mostly for completeness.
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Section 230 preempts her lawsuit against Facebook: “Ninth Circuit precedent interpreting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § Most FOSTA opinions are lengthy, but this one was short because the law was quite clear. Doe claims she was sex-trafficked on Instagram. ” Cite to Lemmon v.
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