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The Security ‘Scapegoat?’: When Liability Comes Knocking, CISOs Answer the Call

Berkley Technology Law Journal

JANUARY 24, 2025

On July 18, 2024, Judge Paul Englemayer dismissed most of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)s landmark cyber enforcement case against SolarWinds Corp. By Gaurav Lalsinghani, J.D. Tasked with overseeing a firms cybersecurity posture, CISOs stand on the front lines of a corporations digital defense.

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When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC

Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

” [The $2,500 amount was suggested by the presiding judge at a settlement conference, which the defendant turned into an offer of judgment.] Matthew McDermott is a freelance photographer. The New York Post hired him to take photos of NYC police commissioner Keechant Sewell , paying him a day rate of $470. The New York Post story.

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Journalists’ Lack of Harm Fatal to DMCA Claims Against AI Developer

Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Developers of artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems notched a victory last week when a federal judge dismissed claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) premised on the use of copyrighted works in AI training data, holding that the plaintiffs had failed to show any concrete harm and therefore lacked standing to bring their claims.

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Section 230 Preempts Product Design Claims–Lama v. Meta

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. Facebook , Herrick v. Grindr , Cohen v. Third-Party Content.

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Another Court Finds an “Enforceable Browsewrap.” MAKE IT STOP–Hawkins v. CMG

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This is a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against a media website, so you have good reason to wonder about the legitimacy and sincerity of the case. The named plaintiff created a WSBTV account by opting to log in using Facebook. CMG is invoking arbitration based on that clause. This is clearly wrong, no?

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Snapchat Isn’t Liable for Offline Sexual Abuse–VV v. Meta

Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. She sued Snapchat for her harms. Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds.

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

Eric Goldman

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moreover, the enumerated terms are all items that JLM might conceivably sell to the public and appear to be presumptively copyrightable. The last time we blogged this case , the district court had sided with JLM, initially restricting Gutman’s use of the social media accounts and then awarding control over the accounts to JLM.

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From Artificial Intelligence to Change Management: Key Takeaways from the 2024 Future Lawyer Conference in Boston

CloudNine

JUNE 6, 2024

By Rick Clark The Future Lawyer 2024 Conference was held in Boston, MA, and hosted by Ropes & Gray LLP in their Prudential Tower offices. ” She highlighted at this conference that coming in second is still a win, contrasting it with the failure of those who merely follow the crowd like lemmings. .”

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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Supervising Sentencing; Robust Electoral Competition: Rethinking Electoral Systems to Encourage Representative Outcomes; Independence Reconceived; Is the Constitution of 1787 a White Supremacist Document? Against Essentialism in Constitutional Interpretation; and May 30, 1787

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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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Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH

Eric Goldman

MARCH 25, 2024

Judge Breyer of the Northern District of California had none of it. 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 “). As a result, the court finds that much of the lawsuit is a SLAPP.

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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

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. The state court judge skillfully dissects the arguments using a wide range of legal theories, from the economic loss doctrine to Section 230.

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Uber’s TOS Formation Upheld Again–Wu v. Uber

Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This opinion is a companion to the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s decision in Good v. Uber , which upheld an identical TOS formation process. The highest New York state court agrees. Consistent with this principle, courts have examined whether the offeree of a web-based contract was put on inquiry notice of the contractual terms. .”

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Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a “Breeding Ground” for Sex Traffickers–Doe v. Backpage

Eric Goldman

JUNE 9, 2024

This judge focused solely on Ninth Circuit precedent, which makes sense because this court is in the Ninth Circuit’s territory and that will help with any appeal). Backpage.com, LLC, 2024 WL 2853969 (N.D. The claims didn’t try to fit into the Section 230 FOSTA exception, though this case otherwise looks like a FOSTA case.

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Ninth Circuit Says Section 230 Preempts “Defective Design” Claims–Doe v. Grindr

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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Internet Access Providers Face Contributory Copyright Liability for Subscribers’ Infringements–UMG v. Grande

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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Five Decisions Illustrate How Section 230 Is Fading Fast

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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Suspended Twitter User Loses Lawsuit Due to Section 230–Ryan v. X

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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A Roundup of Recent Section 230 Decisions Involving Sex Abuse or CSAM

Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

Previously in this case, Judge Coogler denied Pornhub’s motion to dismiss, certified a class of plaintiffs, and denied summary judgment to Pornhub. The case got reassigned to a new judge, and Pornhub requested permission to make an interlocutory appeal. The new judge denied this request as well. 2025 WL 1266928 (N.D.

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Section 230 Immunizes OnlyFans for User-Uploaded Video–Doe v. Fenix

Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

[Trump came close to repealing Section 230 in the 2020 lame-duck Congressional session (while he was also busy fomenting the J6 insurrection). With him returning to the presidency, the odds are extremely high that he will finish this project and repeal Section 230 in the near future. Charles and Romelus filmed each other while they raped Plaintiff.

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The Security ‘Scapegoat?’: When Liability Comes Knocking, CISOs Answer the Call

When a Copyright Owner Gets Only a $1,000 Judgment in Federal Court, They’re the Real Losers–McDermott v. KMC

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Journalists’ Lack of Harm Fatal to DMCA Claims Against AI Developer

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Section 230 Preempts Product Design Claims–Lama v. Meta

Another Court Finds an “Enforceable Browsewrap.” MAKE IT STOP–Hawkins v. CMG

Snapchat Isn’t Liable for Offline Sexual Abuse–VV v. Meta

Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

From Artificial Intelligence to Change Management: Key Takeaways from the 2024 Future Lawyer Conference in Boston

Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH

Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

Uber’s TOS Formation Upheld Again–Wu v. Uber

Instagram Defeats Lawsuit Claiming It Was a “Breeding Ground” for Sex Traffickers–Doe v. Backpage

Ninth Circuit Says Section 230 Preempts “Defective Design” Claims–Doe v. Grindr

Internet Access Providers Face Contributory Copyright Liability for Subscribers’ Infringements–UMG v. Grande

Five Decisions Illustrate How Section 230 Is Fading Fast

Suspended Twitter User Loses Lawsuit Due to Section 230–Ryan v. X

A Roundup of Recent Section 230 Decisions Involving Sex Abuse or CSAM

Section 230 Immunizes OnlyFans for User-Uploaded Video–Doe v. Fenix

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