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Reddit Challenges Anthropic’s Scraping to Create Generative AI Models (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy With as much scraping as is happening for AI training and enhancement these days, it’s amazing to me that there aren’t more lawsuits happening over scraping. Further, as Kieran notes, the TTC harm statement is also pretty weak in light of the Hamidi standard. __ Two other noteworthy points about this lawsuit.

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Ninth Circuit Reaffirms the “Server Test” for Direct Infringement of the Public Display Right — Hunley v. Instagram, LLC (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. 94-1476, at 159-60.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd.,

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Automated License Plate Readers with ACLU Attorney Matt Cagle

Berkley Technology Law Journal

That increases the government’s ability, and specifically, in many cases, law enforcement ability to watch people, to watch list people, to bring the light weight of the criminal justice system and the carceral system down on people. 27, 2017), [link] (last visited Dec. And with that comes power, right? FOX40 (Sep.

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

Berkley Technology Law Journal

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. Third, OCE suspended the release recommendation for all immigrants in 2017. Professor Koulish] 25:58 Yeah, so the question is, why.

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Section 230 Immunizes OnlyFans for User-Uploaded Video–Doe v. Fenix

Eric Goldman

The court responds: “Pointing to persuasive case law, Fenix contends that Plaintiff’s allegations far well short of what is needed to overcome CDA immunity. Thus, this lawsuit implicates Section 230’s extraterritorial application, but the court didn’t address this issue.

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