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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

LawSites

We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.”

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

If the contract limits any action that copyright law restricts, meaning reproduction, distribution, adaptation, or public performance or display of works within the scope of copyright, it is preempted. However, it was sometimes not as clear as the case law of other circuits. A third approach?

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

Legal Tech Monitor

We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.” 2019 is a real case.

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ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and the Lawyer

Legal Tech Monitor

Not only will it answer your questions easily and quickly, but, like a human friend, it may sometimes tell you what you want to hear, and sometimes it may share outright fabrications (called hallucinations). Upon double-checking, I found the case Varghese v. ChatGPT’s responses are very confident and persuasive. 3d 1339 (11th Cir.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

s Terms of Service (“ToS”) when it created a new account in 2019. But whatever the policy inclinations of judges and advocacy groups, the reality of the case law makes it difficult to distinguish between pro-social groups like CCDH, run-of-the-mill commercial entities, and even gray area or dark web-type scrapers.

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Understanding the CCB’s First Two Final Determinations (Guest Blog Post–Part 3 of 3)

Eric Goldman

Step Six: 14 days after the Initial Order and payment of the second fee, the CCB issues a Scheduling Order , which includes a timeline for the respondent’s response, pre-discovery conference, discovery, post-discovery conference, written position statements, a hearing, and determination. 2019) (citing Campbell, 510 U.S. LLC, 922 F.3d

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European Data Protection Roundup – August

Debevoise Data Blog

The court also struck out the claimant’s negligence claim on the grounds that: (i) case law has established that negligence cannot be pleaded alongside Data Protection Act claims; and (ii) “distress” does not constitute damage, as required for a successful negligence claim.