Eric Goldman

JULY 21, 2024

Recapping a couple of doomed-from-inception lawsuits. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3427161 (D. July 16, 2024) Lance Benedict is a musician. 2024 WL 3421685 (Mass. The post Section 230 Preempts Two More Harassment Lawsuits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Benedict v. Twitter Inc.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The court says the plaintiff had standing: “Salazar’s alleged injury stems from the unauthorized disclosure of his personal viewing information, which is closely related to at least one common-law analog traditionally recognized as providing a basis for a lawsuit in American courts: public disclosure of private facts.”

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

2024 WL 4126066 (N.D. 9, 2024) The post Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Allegedly Pornographic Ads–Reaud v. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Yet another account termination/content removal ruling for the defense. Case Citation : Reaud v. Facebook Inc.

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lennyesq

JUNE 20, 2025

According to the Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York, Mescall created a fake law firm that went by several different names, including “Prospection Legal,” “Prospection Legal Group” and “Mescall Law P.C.” He also provided false information, including that he graduated from “Texas Tech University School of Law.”

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Encor Solar LLC, 2024 WL 4062051 (D. 5, 2024) The post Angi Can’t Dismiss Lawsuit Over Failed Vendor Authentication–Everyspace v. Encor appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Everyspace Construction, LLC v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ rights to post reviews on Yelp). 2024 WL 4882638 (C.D.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Recently, the companys aggressive enforcement of its intellectual property (IP) has taken center stage, with high-profile lawsuits targeting game modders, emulator developers, and companies like Pocketpair, the creators of Palworld. The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against the games continued distribution?

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

Social media Several lawsuits claim social media companies, such as Meta, Google, and ByteDance, enabled teen addiction to the platforms and caused numerous mental health issues. Attorneys are expected to rely on law that has worked to protect people from toxic environmental substances.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 27, 2024

Plaintiff further alleges that Defendants knew they were collecting biometric data from Illinois citizens, including children, in violation of Illinois state law.” 2024 WL 3842563 (W.D. May 29, 2024) The post AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The tsunami of anti-AI laws (and other laws against synthetic content) put all of those AR filters in jeopardy–after all, they produce fake algorithmically-generated images. But before we get there, AR filters are in jeopardy due to an old-school privacy law, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 30, 2024

The court says that Printify took appropriate steps when it learned of infringing items via Atari’s lawsuit: First, Printify searched its own database for the 70 URLs identified by Atari in ECF No. 2024 WL 283641 (S.D.N.Y. RedBubble * IP Lawsuits Against Print-on-Demand Vendors Continue to Vex the Courts–OSU v.

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Clio

JANUARY 30, 2024

Law firm data security should be a top priority for any practice, and here’s why: Clients trust you with their most confidential information. Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. You don’t want your law firm to become part of that statistic.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lloyd sued Facebok for a variety of claims (I initially described the suit as “a standard kitchen-sink pro se lawsuit against Facebook”). Neither the statutory language nor the case law suggests that applicability of 230(c)(1) turns on the type of third-party speech involved. 2024 WL 5121035 (N.D. Facebook, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. Stripping this system down to its Internet Law basics, the defendants apparently run a walled garden app store for car modification apps. EZ Lynk Sezc , 2024 WL 1349224 (S.D.N.Y. EZ Lynk appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2024

The EPA civilly sued eBay for third-party merchant listings of items that violate environmental laws. eBay defeats the lawsuit. 2024 WL 4350523 (E.D.N.Y. 30, 2024) * * * BONUS: In the Matter of Amazon.com, Inc., Consumer Product Safety Commission July 29, 2024). Is eBay the “Seller”? CPSC Docket No.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

This is where law firm predictive analytics come to the rescue. By leveraging AI and other technologies, law firms can uncover patterns and trends across vast datasetsturning raw information into actionable insight. What is predictive analytics for law firms?

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation , 2024 WL 4532937 (N.D. 24, 2024) This ruling involves the school districts’ claims against social media for their alleged role in providing resource-intensive mental health support for students.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Four highlights from this week : How to detect poisoned data in machine learning datasets; Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky; UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges; and How U.S. health care providers deal with hundreds of data breaches every year.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2024

The court doesn’t take the bait: The court rejects the argument that “merely hosting infringing content, until it is subject to a takedown notice, constitutes “materially contributing” to infringement under current law.” 2024 WL 945325 (M.D. X appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 30, 2024

The user took the matter to court (pro se), where the lawsuit failed: Contract Breach. This becomes yet another unsuccessful account termination/content removal lawsuit. Google LLC , 2024 WL 3551878 (D.D.C. July 26, 2024). Google appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Fraud. The complaint.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Brett Trout In a recent decision by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (CoA) dated December 20, 2024, the court underscored the critical importance of precise patent drafting. The case involved Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which faced significant challenges to its patent due to inaccuracies in its patent claims.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As a result, this dispute implicates some provocative Internet Law questions. 2024 WL 4876949 (N.D. 22, 2024) Because of the high-profile nature of this lawsuit, I received several reporter inquiries about the case. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. This is a kind of 4D chess move.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Now, with a little more time to complete its analysis, the court wrote a more thorough and refined opinion preliminarily enjoining Ohio’s law requiring parental consent for children’s usage of social media. AG Yost disingenuously argued that the law enhances parents’ control over their children’s contracts.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 10, 2024

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. 2024 WL 3331649 (N.D. Twitter * “Material Support for Terrorism” Lawsuit Fails a Third Time–Colon v. Two of those cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 6, 2024

If that rings a bell, it’s because just yesterday I blogged on a DIFFERENT fish painter, DeYoung, who also brought an IP lawsuit against a print-on-demand service (Pixels). New practice area alert for law students: the specialty niche of fish artists asserting IP claims against print-on-demand services. Volitional Conduct.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and data analytics, present both challenges and opportunities for law firms and in-house legal departments. For law firms, the question centers on how to deploy these tools without undermining the billable hour model that underpins profitability.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 12, 2024

In 2014, California enacted AB2365 , sometimes called the “Yelp law,” codified at Cal. The law prohibits businesses from suppressing consumer reviews (on Yelp or elsewhere). Thus, more likely, this law is one of thousands of laws that the California legislature passes with some hype but then gets widely ignored.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 30, 2024

Add this lawsuit to the ever-growing stack of failed lawsuits over account terminations and content removals. 2024 WL 1330116 (D. March 28, 2024). YouTube appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Haocheng v. YouTube, Inc., The complaint.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

The trial court anti-SLAPPED that lawsuit. 2024 WL 2745115 (Cal. May 29, 2024) The post Section 230 Applies to Publication of Court Documents–Medina v. Microsoft appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The appeals court affirms.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

It is likely to affect how lawyers practice law, and it will also have legal implications that impact society more broadly. A recent report for the Law Society of England and Wales put forth the concept of lawyers switching from hourly billing to charging for billable units of attention. How does neurotechnology impact the legal field?

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Shortly after bringing this lawsuit, Schaub publicly declared (cleaned up): “I am finally going after anyone who harasses me online, including comics. Swindelles , 2024 WL 733425 (D.R.I. 22, 2024) The post Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v. Swindelles appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 20, 2025

Invoking the arbitration clause in the TOS, the defendant sought to send the lawsuit to arbitration. The 2024 district court opinion. Homeaglow appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Here is one of the screens consumers purportedly navigated: This looks like a standard “sign-in-wrap.”

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Eric Goldman

JULY 9, 2024

Lloyd brought a pro se lawsuit against Facebook raising a myriad of concerns. 2024 WL 3325389 (9th Cir. July 8, 2024) The post Facebook Isn’t Subject to the ADA–Lloyd v. Facebook appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. My prior blog post. Case Citation : Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This is the instant-classic lawsuit involving a Saskatchewan farmer who text-messaged a “thumbs-up” emoji in response to an offer to buy his flax. That judge was surely dealing with an emoji interpretation case for his first time, and operates in a community not known for being at the cutting edge of technology law.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On January 4, 2024, the North Carolina Justice for All Project (JFAP) filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the state of North Carolina claiming unlawful infringement upon their fundamental right of free speech to provide simple legal advice to North Carolinians. But this, of course, is not the end to JFAP’s story.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 9, 2025

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

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