Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The plaintiff claims that the defendant company is engaging in a form of corporate identity theft, trading on its license number, and that Angi promoted the interloper as a certified contractor without doing proper verification. Angi unsuccessfully defends on Section 230 grounds. It matches contractors with homeowners.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 8, 2024

The court concludes that this as a surprisingly easy Section 230 dismissal: ICS Provider. “Courts within the Second Circuit have routinely found that social media websites and online matching services are interactive computer services.” ” Cites to Mosha v. . ” Cites to Mosha v. Facebook , Herrick v. Grindr , Cohen v.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2024

But even if the plaintiff connected the dots, With respect to defendant’s possession of contrary information, the amended complaint has, at best, plausibly alleged that defendant did not know if the photograph was of Zilis and failed to verify the accuracy of the photograph, despite knowing what Zilis looked like.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 13, 2024

Substack defended on Section 230 grounds. Finally, Smith claimed that Substack’s “sheer failure to respond to [his] multiple reports, queries, and complaints was negligence.” 12, 2024) The post Section 230 Helps Substack Defeat a Defamation Claim–Smith v. Substack appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds. Similarly, allegations of failure to warn of an application’s potential danger do not remove the “publisher” status. Similarly, allegations of failure to warn of an application’s potential danger do not remove the “publisher” status. cite to LW v. Cite to Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 9, 2025

Recent Licensing Agreement : In May 2024, OpenAI entered into a formal partnership with Reddit, granting OpenAI access to Reddit’s Data API. 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.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 9, 2024

[This is one of those opinions that is a slog to blog because the court’s statutory analysis made my head hurt. If this opinion confuses you, welcome to the club. FWIW, “Slog to Blog” would make a good band name.] Stratics Networks offers ringless voicemail and VOIP services. ” [Note 1: I HATE getting voicemails. OK boomer.

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Wisblawg

APRIL 26, 2024

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. 2024) by RENAGH O’LEARY , UW Law School Community supervision agencies and officers do not just supervise people on probation and parole. Supervising Sentencing 57 UC Davis L.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 25, 2024

He calls out Twitter for its bad choice: This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech…X Corp. Self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist Elon Musk is notoriously thin-skinned when it comes to criticism directed at him. (As As the phrase goes, “ he can dish it out, but he can’t take it “).

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 14, 2024

The cases reached important milestones last Fall, when both the federal and state court judges denied the social media defendants’ Section 230 motions to dismiss. Today’s post focuses on the social media defendants’ efforts to dismiss the parallel lawsuits by the school districts.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The court recaps past cases: the crux of the financial benefit inquiry is whether a causal relationship exists between the infringing activity and a financial benefit to the defendant. But in every case, the financial benefit to the defendant must flow directly from the third party’s acts of infringement to establish vicarious liability.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2024

The underlying legal principles are not complicated: content rules in TOSes are negative behavioral restrictions on authors’ conduct, not marketing or contractual promises to readers that such content will never appear on the site. ” The TOS provides additional details about what YouTube considers impermissible animal abuse.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 6, 2024

2024 WL 3914512 (C.D. July 31, 2024) The trademark owner Alsa sells chrome paint. Plaintiff does not show that the alleged Marks appear anywhere else on Walmart.com apart from where they are inputted as search terms. A couple of keyword ad cases from a couple of months ago. Alsa Refinish LLC v. Walmart Inc. Seriously, dude?

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 12, 2024

This is a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against the video streaming platform Tubi. Tubi sought to send the case to arbitration per its TOS. The court says no. The account signup page on mobile devices looked like this (Screen 1): Note the unusual “skip” link in the upper right–what happens if users select it?

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 9, 2024

The court dismisses the case but gives the plaintiff the chance to amend the complaint to plead failure-to-warn and negligent design–because those arguments show up in virtually every 230 case now. Backpage.com, LLC, 2024 WL 2853969 (N.D. ” Cite to Lemmon v. Snap , Barnes , Roommates , Dyroff. Case Citation : Doe (K.B.)

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The panel summarizes: “Because Does state law claims necessarily implicate Grindrs role as a publisher of third-party content, 230 bars those claims. Doe fails to state a plausible TVPRA claim, so Doe cannot invoke a statutory exception to 230 immunity.” and is “a description of its moderation policy.”

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 13, 2024

On appeal, the Fifth Circuit upholds Grande’s liability but reverses the damages computation in a way that will save Grande a few dollars. The judgment reversal is somewhat welcome news to Grande, but it doesn’t fix the structural and potentially existential problems with imposing contributory copyright liability on IAPs.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

9, 2024) The lawsuit alleges Meta addicts teens and thus violates DC’s consumer protection act. Given the tenor of these opinions, how are any plaintiffs NOT getting around Section 230 at this point? District of Columbia v. Meta Platforms, Inc., LEXIS 27 (D.C. Superior Ct. Like other cases in this genre, it goes poorly for Facebook.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 11, 2024

[This blog post covers two decisions in the same lawsuit: the ruling on X’s initial motion to dismiss from September, which apparently never triggered my Westlaw or Lexis alerts, and then a ruling on X’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint that the court issued this week. ICS Provider. X is “inarguably” an ICS provider.

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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.” May 6, 2025) Prior blog posts ( 1 , 2 ). The new judge denied this request as well.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

I’m still blogging Section 230 cases as I see them, even though these posts are likely to have only historical value. ] * * * The court summarizes the horrifying allegations: In April 2022, Defendant Bendjy Charles (“Charles”) and Romelus raped Plaintiff. Charles and Romelus filmed each other while they raped Plaintiff.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 5, 2025

Senator Booker briefly held up the bill in mid-2024, citing concerns about vague language and overbroad criminal penalties. Jess Miers (with additional comments from Eric) Generated by ChatGPT Two things can be true: Non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) is a serious and gendered harm.

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