Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Attorneys will also receive $150 per hour “for time reasonably expended out of court” (up from its previous minimum of $50 per hour) and maximum compensation for representing an indigent defendant of $10,000 (up from its previous maximum of $5,000). Rule 299 was last updated in 2006. The amendments are effective on Jan.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Neither Time nor BuzzFeed was named as a defendant. To be clear, the plain language of the Copyright Act requires that the defendant must display a “copy” of the image; but it does not say that the “copy” must necessarily be in the defendant’s possession.] 2021), for example, the defendant purchased a website from another party.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 8, 2024

The court said that the trademark owner had been using the trademark since 1985 and registered the trademark in 2006. In 2014, the defendant launched a website called “The Texas Tamales Warehouse” but was driven off of that. ” That prompted this litigation. .'” ” That prompted this litigation.

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Lawsuit Defendant Court Litigator 129

Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

Although copyright infringement is a strict liability tort, all of these facts might have helped to convince Goldsmith to settle on reasonable terms, and all of them would have made AWF a more sympathetic defendant in the unlikely event that Goldsmith pursued her claims and a trial was needed. 388, 392-93 (2006). at 1967 & n.1,

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 17, 2024

You would recognize several of the defendants’ names as frequent sources of misinformation and lies. 2006), which stands for the opposite proposition. A conspiracy theory alleged that he planned to throw the 2020 presidential election against Trump. He sued various conspiracy theory traffickers for defamation. Rosenthal, 146 P.3d

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Court Defendant Lawsuit Litigation 122

Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

If the YOLO promise-based exclusion to Section 230 stands up, plaintiffs will have no problem tendentiously parsing a defendant’s site disclosures to find something– anything –as the anchor for a promise-based claim that bypasses Section 230. The early rounds have not gone well for the defendants in many cases.

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Law Law Court Lawsuit 102

Eric Goldman

JANUARY 14, 2025

As discussed in the implications section below, a reminder that lengthy litigation is a feature, not a bug, to copyright owners because it functions as lawfare to drain its opponents of resources. The 281 videos at issue, uploaded in 2006-13, had background music that allegedly infringing the plaintiffs’ copyrights.

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