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Inspire.Legal 2019

Legal Talk Network

Christian is the Head of Strategy at Reynen Court LLC as well as the author of the Blacklines & Billables blog which, by the way, has its own podcast. pic.twitter.com/qnoc9lqYU9 — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 1, 2019. Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 1, 2019.

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Furthermore, the court determined that Facebook’s survival clause did not explicitly cover scraping after the termination of Bright Data’s accounts. It lost for two reasons: one grounded in contract law and the other external. 301(a) , which preempts state laws “equivalent” to copyright. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Section 230 Once Again Immunizes Google’s Search Results–Metroka v. PA Law Enforcement

Eric Goldman

The court easily dismisses per Section 230: ICS Provider. Numerous courts have held Google is one. ” The court summarizes: “Google has immunity from her state law claims, as it cannot be held liable for search engine results showing a third party’s statement.” 2019 WL 5595037 (S.D.N.Y.

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

Eric Goldman

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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What Are the Legal Issues Surrounding Deep Fakes?

Martindale-Avvo

Here are some examples of harmful deep fake usage: In 2019, an energy firm in the U.K. In June 2019, a deep fake video of Mark Zuckerberg was posted to Instagram in which the “fake” CEO claimed how “great” it was to have billions of people’s data. State Law Several states have passed laws to limit the harmful effects of deep fakes.

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EU Rules Restricting the International Transfers of Non-Personal Data

Inside Privacy

This regulation is directly applicable in all EU Member States since May 28, 2019. Note that the data localization prohibition in this Regulation applies to individual EU Member Stateslaws; it does not preclude the EU from implementing data localization requirements.

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

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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