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Facebook Can Reject Unwanted Ads–Newton v. Meta

Eric Goldman

This is yet another online content removal lawsuit, and it reaches the obvious and inevitable result that dozens of cases have reached before it. The lawsuit against Facebook for refusing the film ads is an easy dismissal. The only question at issue is whether the lawsuit treats Facebook’s refusal as a publisher/speaker action.

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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. 2007); Shah v. A different Nathaniel White claimed that the episode improperly featured his mugshot and thus connected him to the serial killings. Google Technology, Inc.,

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Legal Tech Look-Back – 12.19.07: Federal Judge Tosses Class Action Seeking to Shut Down Avvo

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Although Avvo today is primarily a directory for consumers to find lawyers, its initial concept when founder Mark Britton launched it on June 5, 2007, was to score every lawyer in the United States on a scale of 1 to 10. But just five months later, Judge Lasnik dismissed the lawsuit.

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Legal Tech Look-Back – 12.19.07: Federal Judge Tosses Class Action Seeking to Shut Down Avvo

LawSites

Although Avvo today is primarily a directory for consumers to find lawyers, its initial concept when founder Mark Britton launched it on June 5, 2007, was to score every lawyer in the United States on a scale of 1 to 10. But just five months later, Judge Lasnik dismissed the lawsuit.

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ChatGPT vs. Copyright Law

Legal Tech Monitor

This lack of clarity can lead to disputes and even lawsuits. The “Dancing Baby” case : In 2007, a mother uploaded a video of her toddler dancing to Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy” on YouTube. The mother filed a lawsuit, arguing that her use of the song was fair use. YouTube eventually won the case.

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2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

Getty, an image licensing service, has brought a lawsuit against the creators of art-generating AI “Stable Diffusion” in a US federal court, alleging that the tool unlawfully copied and processed millions of images, violating its copyright in the images. 2007) [19] [link] Few of the cases are discussed below. GitHub, Inc. [16]