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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Eric Goldman

Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. Moreover, the enumerated terms are all items that JLM might conceivably sell to the public and appear to be presumptively copyrightable. On appeal, the Second Circuit vacates the account transfers to JLM.

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Internet Access Providers Face Contributory Copyright Liability for Subscribers’ Infringements–UMG v. Grande

Eric Goldman

NOCIs to Grande between 2011 and 2017. On appeal, the Fifth Circuit upholds Grande’s liability but reverses the damages computation in a way that will save Grande a few dollars. As usual, a key non-litigant is Rightscorp, which sent 1.3M Unsurprisingly, this argument fails. Frontier, another IAP, failed with this argument elsewhere).

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