Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

Unbeknownst to most, however, is that 167 law enforcement agencies across Virginia are now using public-facing surveillance technology such as Automatic License Plate Readers (“ALPR”) and gunshot listening devices. [1] In 2022, it was discovered that state law enforcement agencies had begun putting up ALPRs on state roadways. [15]

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

The court summarizes the facts: The two videos at issue comprise excerpts from Lakeway City Council meetings and a presentation Kilgore gave as mayor to Lakeway residents, sitting at a desk in front of United States and Texas flags. Both cases included a 512(f) claim, and both 512(f) claims survive the preliminary dismissal efforts.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

2023 WL 5017711 (D. July 28, 2023). Also, “The complaint does not allege specific facts to support an inference that Facebook has assumed a traditional public function, that the state coerced Facebook’s conduct, or that Facebook and the state are interdependent.” Platkin, 2023 WL 6389744 (D.N.J.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2023

He brought a state court class action lawsuit against Ripoff Report, alleging violations of CA B&P 17200 and the implied covenant of good faith. Ripoff Report removed the case to federal court. The plaintiff successfully remanded the case back to state court and got some of its attorneys’ fees covered.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 22, 2023

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” As one example of this, the district court pointed to Urantia Found.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 13, 2023

The court rules for Reddit on all counts. The court says Rogozinski doesn’t have priority over Reddit. The court does not credit Rogozinski’s role in creating the subreddit as a use in commerce, and Rogozinski’s other uses (such as the book title) don’t count either. State Law Claims.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The court summarizes the plaintiff’s allegations: Plaintiff alleges that in October, 2020, he received a negative review on Nextdoor from a former customer. ” The court cites Force v. The plaintiff claimed that federal law didn’t preempt his state law claim, but the court breezily rejects that. (I

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA Six major book publishers Friday sued the Florida Department of Education, challenging a 2023 state law used to restrict books in school libraries. The Court found that where work is not considered obscene, it is constitutionally protected expression under the First Amendment.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2023

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.” Publisher/Speaker Claims.

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Inside Privacy

MAY 3, 2023

On April 27, 2023, the Advocate General (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its opinion in the case C-807/21 on the conditions for imposing GDPR fines on legal persons (e.g., Member States laws may not require this to be a pre-condition to impose a GDPR administrative fine. (2)

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Eric Goldman

JULY 18, 2023

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. There are more than 300 opinions by federal courts dealing with the express preemption of contracts, and within them two main approaches have emerged. ML Genius v. A third approach?

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Inside Privacy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Note that the data localization prohibition in this Regulation applies to individual EU Member States’ laws; it does not preclude the EU from implementing data localization requirements.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Businesses may want to consider how the courts reasoning may apply to other circumstances when dealing with disclosure requests. These developments, and more, covered below.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Marlene Gebauer 1:34 Yeah, and this there’s no difference when it came to applying generative AI ai functionality to legal research when you lost when you launched CoCounsel on the CMS March 1 2023. Greg Lambert 10:40 Yeah, I just wanted to follow up on that, because, you know, this was early 2023. Pablo Arredondo 11:34 Right.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 7, 2024

In April 2023, popular Big Brother reality TV star Kyland Young sued NeoCortex, Inc. , the developer of Reface, a deep fake software program, claiming the product violates California’s right of publicity law. State Law Several states have passed laws to limit the harmful effects of deep fakes.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

At the state level, California has banned law enforcement from installing, activating, or using biometric surveillance with body cameras until 2023. Vermont and Virginia have banned law enforcement from using facial recognition technology pending further legislative action. See Vance v. Amazon.com Inc. , Compare, Vance v.

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Debevoise Data Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

These federal authorities operate alongside state laws and regulations, which are administered by state and local authorities and which include consumer welfare statutes and analogs to federal UDAP laws that also could apply to GenAI tools. Laws still apply when a customer is talking to a chatbot.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MAY 23, 2022

Most of its provisions are operative on July 1, 2023, while some provisions take effect later. Bottom Line : Businesses that operate in Connecticut or target Connecticut residents will need to apply slightly different analysis than previous state laws to determine if they are subject to the CTPA. CTPA § 12(a)(6).

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Marlene Gebauer 1:34 Yeah, and this there’s no difference when it came to applying generative AI ai functionality to legal research when you lost when you launched CoCounsel on the CMS March 1 2023. Greg Lambert 10:40 Yeah, I just wanted to follow up on that, because, you know, this was early 2023. Pablo Arredondo 11:34 Right.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 13, 2024

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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Eric Goldman

APRIL 1, 2023

So this post is 100% true, even if it might sound farcical. * * * This ruling is part of an ongoing multi-iteration tussle (in and out of court) over market share between two rival unions. Because of these deficiencies, the court says: “The copyright note is not a DMCA notice under § 512. Maritas, 2023 WL 2726030 (E.D.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These range from employment and family law to personal injury and criminal law. State laws may resemble one another in some situations, but they may vary greatly in others. We added numerous surveys to this resource during the course of 2023. per hour, but some states require employers to pay a higher minimum wage.

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LLRX

APRIL 26, 2023

A flurry of court rulings in April 2023 has left the future of the abortion pill mifepristone in question. Supreme Court decision on April 21 allows the drug to remain accessible without additional restrictions as the merits of the case are weighed in lower court proceedings. For now, a U.S.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 16, 2023

The court accepts that the employer believed the works were created within the scope of employment, so the associated takedown notice wasn’t sent in bad faith. By design, it seeks to push questions over ownership to court, rather than have the intermediary service try to resolve those question. Shande will get his day in court.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 29, 2023

A: because they spend so much time in court proceedings). Protip: if you want to win in court, don’t self-describe as an “appropriation artist”). The court treats Ripps’ collection as competing against and putting downward price pressure on the original NFTs. Q: why are the apes so bored?

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The court brushes aside of all of Source Capital’s claims. Barrett Financial Group, LLC , 2023 WL 7552330 (D. 14, 2023) BONUS: Some other 2023 Quick Links About 512 * Cook v. Maximus International Specialists, 2023 WL 2603756 (S.D. Court still grants a TRO anyway…] * DP Creations LLC v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2023

However, FOSTA was not designed as an anti-CSAM law, so the plaintiffs’ claims don’t really fit the legal doctrine. In 2021, the court dismissed the non-FOSTA claims but did not dismiss the FOSTA claim. Reddit cert petition was pending before the Supreme Court. 2023 WL 8568911 (N.D. 2023 WL 8126845 (C.D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 5, 2023

” My post tried to translate this statement: Underneath this anodyne conclusion, the court is impliedly making two key points: (1) users’ activities do not contribute to evaluating the defendant’s 1591 exposure, and (2) the applicable scienter to get around 230 is 1591’s “actual knowledge” requirement. 2023 WL 3220913 (9th Cir.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2023

The court treats this as a surprisingly easy Section 230 case and dismisses the case. Twitter , the court disagrees: Unlike in Lemmon and Roommates.com , the harm Plaintiffs allege here doesn’t flow from a design defect. ” The plaintiffs also sued Google and Apple for carrying Snap in their app stores. Next stop: the 9th Circuit.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 23, 2023

In response to a facial constitutional challenge to FOSTA, the DC Circuit upheld the law after making several narrowing constructions. The remaining ambiguity over its scope chills and inhibits socially beneficial and completely legal behavior, but the law doesn’t help reduce illegal behavior. Taamneh case. Reddit, Inc. ,

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The court holds that Section 230 applies to the claims. ” The court responds that “Grindr’s match function relies on and publishes a user’s profile and geolocation data, which is third-party content generated by the user.” The court rejects Doe’s attempted Lemmon v. ICS Provider. Publisher/Speaker Claims.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By guest blogger Lisa Ramsey , Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law The Supreme Court will likely hold in Elster that Section 2(c) is consistent with the First Amendment, but will it clarify how to balance trademark and free speech rights? After the Supreme Court granted cert in Vidal v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

The court says this isn’t a dispositive issue because “Judge Coogler would have come to the conclusion that Defendants were content providers and thus not entitled to immunity under Section 230 even if he had not considered Anderson.” I disagree strongly with this court’s assessment. TikTok ruling. Reddit, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 23, 2024

To the extent that courts have acknowledged this issue, they have presumed that everyone knew Backpage was providing illegal services to sex traffickers. So for purposes of a motion to dismiss, courts can simply assume the upstream violations. Add Section 230 into the mix and tertiary liability looks even weirder.

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