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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. Grande made a bizarre argument that Grokster overrode decades of common law contributory copyright infringement doctrine, leaving only the inducement doctrine in place. After all, the Grokster court spent no energy explaining its rearticulation as a variation on the traditional common law test.

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