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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. Finally, my Twitter account is still active, but I haven’t posted there in many months. I’ve instead made Bluesky my primary social media home.

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Preliminary Copyright Office Guidance on Fair Use and AI Provides Some Answers, But Questions Remain

Debevoise Data Blog

AI Developer Views on Liability Unsurprisingly, AI developers such as OpenAI, Google, and Meta reiterated their arguments from pending lawsuits that training should not be subject to copyright liability. [31] Many uses, however, will fall somewhere in between. [2] Nifty Foods Corp. , 2d 541, 544 (2d Cir. 1959); Abs Entm’t v. 5 (9th Cir.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down.

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Breaking: Aderant Acquires American LegalNet

LawSites

Aderant has its own rules-based calendaring product, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to the legal market some 40 years ago. ALN remains involved in a lawsuit filed last year by CourtAlert.com alleging that the company conspired to steal CourtAlert’s confidential and proprietary information.

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Another Doctor Learns Why It’s Unwise to Sue Patients

Eric Goldman

The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees. For his failed lawsuits, Hah will be writing checks to the defendants’ attorneys. The district court didn’t act on the motions, which acted as a pocket denial. Matter of Public Concern.

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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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Breaking: Aderant Acquires American LegalNet

LawSites

Aderant has its own rules-based calendaring product, CompuLaw, which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to the legal market some 40 years ago. ALN remains involved in a lawsuit filed last year by CourtAlert.com alleging that the company conspired to steal CourtAlert’s confidential and proprietary information.