Eric Goldman

MAY 27, 2025

Riehl asked ChatGPT to summarize a lawsuit involving the foundation. Riehl knew that ChatGPT’s claim was fishy and that the ChatGPT version he was using had an index cutoff date before the lawsuit filing. The court then says: the undisputed evidence establishes that OpenAI did not act with “actual malice.”

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lennyesq

JUNE 22, 2025

AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spat Thomas Claburn An attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz’s own AI tool, Claude, to format references.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2025

Last year, the Ninth Circuit said that plaintiffs could get around Section 230 in their lawsuit against the app maker YOLO because the app maker said it would ban users for inappropriate statements and would unmask harassers. The court disagrees. 2025 WL 819567 (C.D. ” What? ” What? Case Citation : Bride v.

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MatterSuite

MAY 22, 2025

Mitigate Malpractice Risks and Legal Disqualifications Overlooking conflicts invites catastrophic consequences: malpractice lawsuits, court sanctions, or forced withdrawal from cases. The Bottom Line: In 2025, Conflict Checks are About Survival The legal landscape has changed. The benchmarks are clear.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Brett Trout On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the main court for resolving patent issues) issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. The Court’s Analysis Applying the two-step framework from Alice Corp. Fox Corp. (No.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2025

The court summarizes the facts: In April 2024, Hall became involved in a public feud with another YouTube user, MoneyBoy Tr3y, (Tr3y) which led to the exchange of multiple DMCA takedown notices between the two. YouTube, LLC, 2025 WL 1482007 (N.D. May 5, 2025). The post YouTuber Loses Lawsuit Over Account Suspension–Hall v.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 11, 2025

The court disagrees but gives plaintiffs leave to amend. (As The court says these allegations aren’t good enough in light of Hamidi. First, the court says the mere placement of cookies, without more, doesn’t show any actual injury to the plaintiffs. The court cites Doe I v. 2025 WL 1635956 (E.D.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

Despite the busy 2024 litigation year against companies offering AI platforms in 2024, significant intellectual property questions remain unanswered as the calendar turns to 2025. 2025 may bring some clarity to the legal status of AI, including through highly anticipated guidance from the U.S. In Millette v. OpenAI, Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Pandabuy initially no-showed in the case, so the court converted the TRO to a preliminary injunction. Pandabuy eventually showed up in court and explained how it operates more like a passive facilitator than a seller or manufacturer. This additional context prompted the court to dissolve the injunction. SAD Scheme Cases Suck.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This lawsuit purports to focuses on the allegedly defective operation of the services’ reporting tools, but the plaintiffs’ goal was to hold the services accountable for their alleged inaction in response to some reports. The court dismisses the case entirely with leave to amend. This doctrinal move doesn’t work.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

The court summarizes the case: Rodney Woodland, a freelance artist and model, posts semi-naked photographs of himself in different poses on Instagram. The court displayed all of the photos side-by-side, so of course we’re going to look at them. I guess that makes me old-school. So I think this is a SFW post.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 10, 2025

The court correctly calls this a “clickwrap.” ” The court says that the TOS made adequate disclosures of the pixel’s conduct. 2025 WL 1592961 (S.D. June 5, 2025) More Posts on the Pixel Cases Meta Pixels Case Dismissed by Second Circuit–Solomon v. So this isn’t an artificial time constraint.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 3, 2025

The plaintiff brought a putative class action lawsuit against Capital One based on Washington’s anti-spam law and related claims. The district court agrees with the plaintiff. ” I disagree with the court’s characterization of Section 230’s goals, but I can see why the 230 defense vexed the court. .”

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

In this blog post, we provide an overview of the technologies that plaintiffs most commonly target for CIPA lawsuits and measures that companies can take to mitigate their CIPA litigation risk. Courts receptions to these claims have varied. Google, LLC , 2025 WL 830450 (N.D. See, e.g. , Javier v. Assurance IQ, LLC , 649 F.

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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 district court said “There are elements of both [clickwrap and sign-in-wrap] here.” This is another example where courts will be quite unforgiving about any idiosyncracies in the TOS formation process.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 18, 2025

It is one of the many video game addiction lawsuits percolating throughout the courts nationwide. Without showing the initial TOS page, the court labels it a “clickwrap.” The court applies the law formalistically: N.O. The court uses the same formalistic logic to say that the two children agreed to the TOS.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 7, 2025

”] This lawsuits raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable? Note: the court surely meant Nivoda, not Rapaport. May 2, 2025). This lawsuit was filed in early January. the abysmal CDN v. .” the abysmal CDN v. Cite to Banxcorp v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

The court summarizes: Plaintiff does not argue that Modlily appears in the product name or description of these listings, or anywhere on the webpage itself. Echoing Patmont, the court said the “post-domain path of a URL, however, does not typically signify source. Patmont was followed by Interactive Products Corp.

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Brett Trout

JULY 8, 2025

On June 27, 2025, Lululemon filed a federal lawsuit accusing Costco of selling “confusingly similar” knockoffs of its best-selling clothes—including its Scuba hoodies, Define jackets, and ABC pants. But instead of getting public support, Lululemon is facing an uphill battle in the court of public opinion.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 6, 2025

2025 WL 1009179 (S.D.N.Y. April 4, 2025), might be the most important case pending on the legality of scraping public data to create training data sets to build large language models (“LLMs”). In April, the court ruled on Microsoft and OpenAI’s motions to dismiss. The court agreed. Microsoft Corp., Opinion at 17.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 12, 2025

2025 WL 961473 (W.D.N.Y. March 31, 2025) This case involves the service Joybuy, which listed items for sale in Walmart.coms marketplace. The court is unclear about how Joybuy operates, but it appears that Joybuy (via the entity JD) runs its own online marketplace. Omnia Studios Ltd. JD E-Commerce America Ltd.,

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Whether copyrighted works can be freely used to train generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) models is at the core of dozens of lawsuits filed since AI burst onto the scene several years ago. Following a contentious discovery period, defendants in Anthropic moved for summary judgment and asserted a fair use defense on March 27, 2025.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 21, 2025

But what exactly is threatening movie theaters in 2025? 9] Hearing the case on appeal, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of anti-monopolistic requirements, ordering the divestment of these major studios from their cinemas to ensure more widespread competition. [10] 3, 2025), [link] [3] J. 2, 2025), [link] 131 (1948). [6]

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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. Almost all of the major legal scraping precedents happened in the Northern District, and it is definitely unusual that this was filed in state court.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

The court says that Viral DRM’s exclusive “management” rights is not the same as ownership or an exclusive license to the copyright. The court says that Viral DRM doesn’t have standing to enforce the copyright. 2025 WL 660250 (N.D. 28, 2025) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme Another N.D.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2025

Thats the basis for a recent opinion from a Florida federal district court that could have major implications for online services CSAM detection and reporting practices. Now, however, a district court decision suggests that providers can no longer take it for granted that they wont face liability for reporting non-CSAM.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Distribution The court says “the Forms were accessible at the URLs that plaintiff located. ” However, the court says the plaintiff has to allege actual downloading, not just the mere possibility. ” The court also rejects an implied license defense using an overly restrictive test. ” Citing Bell v.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 13, 2025

In 2025, a political wave of deregulation stands to change how environmental law functions. Supreme Court cases and political movements can change this area of legal practice in the coming year. The legal landscape for environmental lawyers in 2025 Environmental law is a growing and fast-moving area in 2025.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. The district court dismissed the case. The Ninth Circuit affirms every point of the district court’s decision. The court says that Grindr’s claim is not a specific promise, is too general to be enforced (I guess it’s like puffery?)

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 21, 2025

In early 2024, the court granted a preliminary injunction against the law going into effect. Borrowing heavily from its prior opinion, the court has now granted the permanent injunction. The court responds: “the Act is not narrowly tailored to protect minors against oppressive contracts.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. The Supreme Court is taking a steady stream of Internet Law cases, a trend that will continue for some time. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear the TikTok ban, and Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear Free Speech Coalition v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 15, 2025

The court preliminarily enjoined the law in 2023. Rather than address whether the social media platforms are engaging in expressive activity, the court focuses on the laws effects on users: Act 689 forecloses access to social media for those minors whose parents do not consent to the minors use of social media. Scrutiny Level.

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

This guide breaks down the most important personal injury statistics for 2025, going beyond the numbers to show you how these trends can improve your strategic decisions, help you set realistic client expectations, and ultimately deliver better results. Plaintiffs in federal court received an average of $75,000 in damages ( NOLO ).

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

However, it’s another indicator that circuits outside the Third are likely to disagree with the Anderson ruling, virtually ensuring the conflict will reach the Supreme Court. (In In a mild surprise, TikTok abandoned its Supreme Court appeal of the Anderson case, so that reconciliation will have to wait a bit longer).

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Now, courts will have the benefit of a “pre-publication” version of the Copyright Office’s long-awaited Report on Generative AI Training (the “May 2025 Report”). In the meantime, the May 2025 Report offers the only guidance to date from the Office regarding how it sees the question of fair use in the context of generative AI.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2025

” The court summarizes: “In response to the Garniers numerous critical and often repetitive comments on the Trustees social media pages, the Trustees deleted or hid the Garniers comments. Prior blog posts on the district court and Ninth Circuit rulings. O’Connor-Ratcliff , 2025 WL 1387929 (9th Cir.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

This is a confusing lawsuit that has been through several names, including “Sarah v. ” The court previously described the core allegations: The plaintiffs allege that Onision “ran several YouTube channels” that “targeted minor audiences” and allowed Onision to “groom and lure underage girls.”

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