Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

Based on this ruling, Viral DRM’s earlier SAD Scheme lawsuit also may have been deficient on copyright standing grounds. 2025 WL 660250 (N.D. 28, 2025) Prior Blog Posts on the SAD Scheme Another N.D. Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderZaful v. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Brett Trout On April 18, 2025, the U.S. Gone are the days when judges were unaware that AI is simply a tool that one may apply to many generic problems. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the main court for resolving patent issues) issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. Fox Corp. (No.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

And yet, in 2025, Modlily actually shut down an Amazon merchant by asserting trademark infringement based on post-domain URL paths. In other circumstances where a SAD Scheme plaintiff gets caught making a serious litigation error, the judge typically will resolve the motion on its desk and move on. “Most” “all.”

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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. Thus far, the entire lawsuit failed on prima facie grounds, before the court reached Section 230.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

But I’m pretty sure getting 8-75 likes at Instagram, especially for posts that might be considered thirst traps, isn’t impressive, and I think the court is silently judging that. Hill , 2025 WL 1417103 (9th Cir. May 16, 2025) The post Photos in a Similar Style Aren’t Copyright-Infringing–Woodland v.

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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. Shockingly, the plaintiff didnt contest any of the other 512 elements, so Joybuy defeats the lawsuit. Luoxue, 2025 WL 822692 (N.D. 2025 WL 965811 (S.D.N.Y. Omnia Studios 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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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2025

[Note: lawsuits over takedown notice attacks occur occasionally. Focus claimed that GM was “counterfeiting,” and a judge hearing an ex parte TRO wouldn’t have had any reason to doubt that–until it heard GM’s grey market goods explanation, in which case Focus’ story would fall apart.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

In the last month, two more copyright lawsuits over city council videos have triggered my alerts. 14, 2024) A magistrate judge recommends sending a 512(f) case to trial. On January 6, 2025, the supervising judge summarily approved the magistrate judge’s recommendations. 2025 WL 35245 (D.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 26, 2025

This is a confusing lawsuit that has been through several names, including “Sarah v. Plausible allegations that YouTube “generally benefitted from sex traffickers’ use of [its platform]” do not establish that YouTube’s “own conduct” violated section 1591 Case Citation : In re YouTube Trafficking Litigation , 2025 WL 1745759 (N.D.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

I imagine many judges would have been less sanguine about the defendant’s mistakes/sloppy practices. 2025 WL 485493 (D. 12, 2025) Want more about the Internet law of horses? The post Copyright Owner Prevails in Lawsuit Over Form Contracts–Equine Legal v. Case Citation : Equine Legal Solutions PC v.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

3] The city of Norfolk has deployed 172 ‘Flock Safety’ ALPRs, resulting in numerous lawsuits. [4] 6] The lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief that would constitute the use of these cameras as a Fourth Amendment violation and would permanently enjoin the City of Norfolk and its police department from operating the Flock cameras. [7]

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 15, 2025

Griffin , 2025 WL 978607 (W.D. March 31, 2025) Blog Posts on Segregate-and-Suppress Obligations Why I Emphatically Oppose Online Age Verification Mandates Californias Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Is Completely Unconstitutional (Multiple Ways)NetChoice v. Bonta Section 230 Defeats Underage Users Lawsuit Against GrindrDoll v.

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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. About 17,000 medical malpractice cases are filed each year in the US ( Science Direct ).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

Online addiction lawsuits are proliferating across the country, a trend that will continue so long as plaintiffs think they can win. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen. That, combined with the novelty of Generative AI and the judge’s uncertainties about the technology, flummoxes the judge.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. In those cases, the district court judge has drawn its distinctions between claims based on third-party content and claims that don’t depend on the content per se. Salesforce * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over Users CappingMH v. Case Citation : Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 16, 2025

Zaful could bring individual lawsuits against each merchant (a point the court makes), or it may be able to use the DMCA notice-and-takedown system to target those photos and avoid court altogether. Judge April Perry doesn’t. And my apologies to the judge for getting welcomed to the bench with a crapload of crappy cases.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 21, 2025

I previously summarized this lawsuit: The plaintiff sells remanufactured printer ink cartridges. For reasons unclear to me, the plaintiff thought it would be a good idea to sue Amazon over its competitors alleged misdeeds, going so far to breathlessly issue a press release that it had filed a $500 million lawsuit against tech giant Amazon.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Given how judges have turned against Section 230, at this point any appellate ruling that applies Section 230 without narrowing its scope is important. The majority says that if 230 is a policy problem, the “question whether, and to what extent, Section 230 should be modified is a question for Congress, not for judges.”

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 21, 2025

Yost , 2025 WL 1137485 (S.D. Ohio April 16, 2025) BONUS: NetChoice LLC v. April 17, 2025). ” Judge Ho concurs in the judgment, saying that he agrees with Justice Thomas’ dissent in Brown v. Bonta Section 230 Defeats Underage Users Lawsuit Against GrindrDoll v. ” Case Citation : NetChoice LLC v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The plaintiff brought a FOSTA lawsuit. In November 2024, a magistrate judge dismissed the plaintiff’s claims against OnlyFans on Section 230 grounds. The plaintiff objected to the magistrate’s R&R, but the supervising judge rejects the objections. 2025 WL 336741 (S.D. 30, 2025) MORE ON DOE V.

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lennyesq

JUNE 13, 2025

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay of Judge Bryer’s order. The Ninth Circuit set a hearing on June 17, 2025, before Judges Bennett, Sung, and Miller. See Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Application For Temporary Restraining Order. Order Granting Administrative Stay.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. Many judges have turned against Section 230, so we’re seeing a proliferation of jurisprudential experimentation with ideas of how to gut it.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 1, 2025

The account termination lawsuits keep coming , so I’ll keep blogging them. 2025 WL 1249157 (D. April 29, 2025) This is a pro se/in pro per case. 2025 WL 1237550 (N.D. April 28, 2025) Another pro se/in pro per case. Google Twitter Account Suspension Lawsuits Keep FailingHall v. Meta Platforms, Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 10, 2025

All of the named Senators deserve condemnation for their censorial mindset (and the named individuals remaining in the Senate have learned nothing from this and the other lawsuits over their jawboning). 2025 PA Super 78 (Pa. April 3, 2025) Selected Jawboning Posts Robert F. Case Citation : Armslist LLC v. Facebook, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 18, 2025

This adds to the ever-growing list of failed lawsuits over account terminations and content removals. WeChat (USA), 2025 WL 1126477 (E.D.N.Y. April 16, 2025) Selected Posts About State Action Claims Robert F. Google Twitter Account Suspension Lawsuits Keep FailingHall v. Cites to Forbes v. Facebook and Fehrenbach v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

2025 WL 1314179 (N.D. May 6, 2025) Prior blog posts ( 1 , 2 ). 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.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 14, 2025

Yes, this is a 15-year-old lawsuit.[FN] FN] [FN: This lawsuit is almost old enough to drive a car. On appeal, the Second Circuit agrees, in an opinion written by Judge Leval. A lot has changed on both sides since this lawsuit was born in the early Obama years. 2025 WL 77234 (2d Cir. Fortunately (?), Vimeo, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 13, 2025

McAleer , 2025 WL 1564869 (D.N.J. June 3, 2025) Selected Jawboning Posts Facebook Defeats Armslist’s Account Termination Lawsuit–Armslist v. Facebook Another Jawboning Case Fails in the 9th Circuit (But a TAFS Judge Doesn’t Like the Biden Administration)–Rogalinksi v. Facebook Robert F. Kennedy Jr. WeChat Robert F.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Note: Backpage shut down April 2018, but Backpage-related litigation continues into 2025 and beyond]. In light of the strong hostility to Section 23o among the Fifth Circuit judges, every Section 230 case that reaches the Fifth Circuit is likely to be a jurisprudential roller-coaster. Note: the opinion was written by Trump 1.0-appointed

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