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Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting “CSAM” That Wasn’t – Lawshe v. Verizon (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Relevant Federal Law: Balancing User Privacy with Child Protection In the 1980s, Congress passed a law called the Stored Communications Act (SCA) that created a statutory right of privacy for Americans digital files and communications. NCMEC routes received reports to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

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2024 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Eric Goldman

My ranking of the top 10 Internet Law developments of 2024. There are supposed to be conflicts-of-interest laws that prevent this, but America has become a post-conflicts kleptocracy). The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. FOLLOW ME THERE!

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Facebook Defeats Armslist’s Account Termination Lawsuit–Armslist v. Facebook

Eric Goldman

That a sitting senator threatened to introduce legislation that had no bearing on Appellants speech and that would need to pass through Congress and be signed into law before enforced against Appellees is too attenuated to be reasonably construed as a threat of immediate adverse action. Vullo s level of censorial threats. Superior Ct.

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

Eric Goldman

Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode. Microsoft defended on Section 230 grounds. But the commerce clause was not intended to nationalize the whole of America law.” 2013 WL 664231 (E.D. 2013); O’Kroley v. The court agrees with Microsoft. 2012); Nieman v.

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Judge Pushes Back on SAD Scheme Sealing Requests

Eric Goldman

A signature feature of SAD Scheme cases is that rightsowners typically try to seal defendants’ identities. But sealing defendants’ identities directly conflicts with courtroom transparency, a foundational principle essential for trust in our judicial system. Those defendants never reach the default judgment stage.

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After hiQ Labs, Is Scraping Public Data Legal? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Not unreasonably, lawyers continue to view this language from the 9th Circuit as an invitation to explore the possibility that somewhere in the law is an affirmative right to scrape public data. First, Defendant sells private user data through application programming interfaces (“API”) to exclusive third parties called “partners.”

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Eric Goldman

In 2016, the defendant IJR published an article/listicle titled “15 Signs Your Daddy Was a Conservative.” In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. The defendant did not give the specified attribution. 21-2021 (4th Cir.