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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Many judges have turned against Section 230, so we’re seeing a proliferation of jurisprudential experimentation with ideas of how to gut it.

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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. SF Design Group Courts Says Employer’s Lawsuit Against Ex-Employee Over Retention and Use of Twitter Account can Proceed–PhoneDog v. Spartz, Inc.

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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. On July 4, 2023, a federal judge declared FREEDOM from government censorship of Internet services. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. TikTok bans.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. Which is probably a big part of the reason that many judges have been eager to distance themselves from it. Zeidenberg , 86 F.3d 3d 1447, 1454-55 (7th Cir.

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Section 230 Protects Gmail’s Spam Filter–RNC v. Google

Eric Goldman

Introduction This lawsuit is one of the many lawsuits around the country brought by conservatives exorcising their persecution complex. Typically, these lawsuits are purely about partisanship. The lawsuits seek to work the ref, hijack other people’s resources for partisan purposes, and rile the partisan’s base.

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Bias in Algorithms with Professor Robert Koulish

Berkley Technology Law Journal

It was piloted in 2011–2012. In that filing the public statements and of these lawsuits, you saw, we found an increase in the dissents of Enforcement and Removal officers, which had the result of keeping more people detained. So, chances are, we’d still be waiting for that initial information had the judge not acted when it did.

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

Eric Goldman

This is another lawsuit against an Internet access provider (IAP) for user-committed copyright infringement via P2P file sharing. NOCIs to Grande between 2011 and 2017. For more background on this issue, see this rrcap and the links at the bottom of this post. My post on a pre-pandemic district court ruling in this case.

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