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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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Marking the Retirement of Jerry Larkin, Who Led the ARDC With Exceptional Foresight, Integrity, and ‘Irish Wit’

Legal Tech Monitor

When Jerome “Jerry” Larkin joined the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) in 1978, he had just graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, spent eight years in the Catholic seminary system, and knew he wanted to dedicate his career to public service. Rinella , 677 N.E.

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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

The legislative history also expressed an intent to retain existing case law on vicarious liability of a principal for the acts of its agents, including independent contractors. Supreme Court. As a result, a rich body of case law has developed distinguishing direct liability from secondary liability. 3d at 593. [To

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Personal data protection: why a Data Transfer Impact Assessment should be part of your GDPR compliance

Legal IT Group

In that case, you already know about the Schrems II decision, in which the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) indicated that the level of protection of personal data transferred outside the EEA and EU should remain equivalent to that guaranteed in the EU and EEA (but does not necessarily have to be identical).

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Why You Should Read the South Carolina Evidence Handbook Annotated

The Barrister

A4 K23 2021. He also lists court cases that occurred in South Carolina to demonstrate these unique South Carolina rules. Failing to understand the conversation you want to introduce into trial evidence is in fact hearsay, or that the opposition is introducing an exception to hearsay, can devastate your case.

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ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and the Lawyer

Legal Tech Monitor

This means its training involved digesting almost everything on the internet, including Wikipedia and many books, as of September 2021. An often-used cliche among programmers is GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), and it cannot be disputed that there was a fair amount of garbage on the internet by 2021.

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Why Do Lawyers Need to Keep Up with Legal Technology?

Law Technology Today

In order to meet the problems of escalating workflow and productivity demands on a constrained budget, law firms are eager to invest in legal technology services. According to the Future Ready Lawyer 2021 report , 84% of legal departments have increased their technology budgets in the last year.