Eric Goldman

MAY 25, 2025

Separately, he brought a lawsuit over the Are We Dating the Same Guy? I fear legislatures have done an incomplete job of this adversarial wargaming when enacting new sui generis laws like anti-doxxing statutes. Defendant-victimization is also a main justification for broadly applicable anti-SLAPP laws.

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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. Implications Wow, this lawsuit was terrible. ” Life is too short to file lawsuits like this.

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MatterSuite

MAY 22, 2025

Imagine your law firm takes on a new corporate client, only to discover later that your team previously advised their competitor in a related case. Mitigate Malpractice Risks and Legal Disqualifications Overlooking conflicts invites catastrophic consequences: malpractice lawsuits, court sanctions, or forced withdrawal from cases.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

The landscape of mass torts in 2025 builds on the active litigation from the past few years. New and emerging claims on untested issues, like mental health harms from social media and processed food addiction, stand to make 2025 a standout year for torts. In October 2025, the first trials begin, with novel legal arguments anticipated.

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lennyesq

JUNE 22, 2025

The flawed citations, or “hallucinations,” appeared in an April 30, 2025 declaration [PDF] from Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen in a copyright lawsuit music publishers filed in October 2023. But Chen was not responsible for introducing the errors, which appeared in footnotes 2 and 3.

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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. So where exactly is the Ninth Circuit’s law on this topic? 2025 WL 819567 (C.D.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 24, 2025

YouTube, LLC, 2025 WL 1482007 (N.D. May 5, 2025). The post YouTuber Loses Lawsuit Over Account Suspension–Hall v. YouTuber appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Another failed account termination/content removal case. Case Citation : Hall v. The CourtListener page.

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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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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Our upcoming webinar will explore these evolving intersections by diving into high-profile lawsuits that are shaping the legal boundaries of AI, analyzing legal tests and arguments involved, examining the implications of the DMCA concerning AI, and discussing potential liabilities and legal uncertainties for developers and rights holders.

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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. Google, LLC , 2025 WL 830450 (N.D. On June 3, 2025, the bill was unanimously approved by the state Senate and referred to the Assembly.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 10, 2025

2025 WL 1592961 (S.D. June 5, 2025) More Posts on the Pixel Cases Meta Pixels Case Dismissed by Second Circuit–Solomon v. Google (Catch Up Post) Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? Flixbus appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. ” Case Citation : Washington v. Flixbus, Inc.

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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. 2025 WL 606194 (W.D. 25, 2025) The post Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to “Refer-a-Friend” Text Message–Jensen v. ” Case Citation : Jensen v.

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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. Fox Corp. (No.

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Percipient

MARCH 18, 2025

To make things easier, weve rounded up the best contract review software of 2025 so you can find the right fit and get contracts done fasterwithout the stress. Reduce the Risk of Costly Mistakes One missed clause can lead to financial losses, compliance issues, or even lawsuits. But not all contract review tools are the same.

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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. Such allegations fail to state a claim under products liability law. removal of the reported videos.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 11, 2025

2025 WL 1635956 (E.D. June 9, 2025) More Posts on the Pixel Cases Clickwrap Formed Even When a Consumer Has Limited Time to Act–Washington v. Google (Catch Up Post) Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? Tenet appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Case Citation : Doe v.

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CloudNine

APRIL 15, 2025

On Thursday, April 10, 2025, legal and technology professionals gathered at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. The conference featured a wide range of insightful sessionscovering topics from artificial intelligence, custodian interviews with modern data challenges, case law updates, and social media collection and analysis.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

Respect the Look My Comments to the USPTO About the SAD Scheme and Anticounterfeiting/Antipiracy Efforts My New Article on Abusive Schedule A IP Lawsuits Will Likely Leave You Angry If the Word Emoji is a Protectable Trademark, What Happens Next?Emoji Pandabuy appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. LEXIS 7440 (S.D.N.Y.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

” Remember this perspective when the Ninth Circuit analyzes the various censorial state laws designed to control or strip away “platforms'” curatorial or discovery efforts. 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

MARCH 20, 2025

Invoking the arbitration clause in the TOS, the defendant sought to send the lawsuit to arbitration. March 19, 2025). 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.” Case Citation : Seneca v.

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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? ” And yet…the copyright law jurisprudence is littered with cases saying or implying that individual prices could be copyrightable (e.g., May 2, 2025). the abysmal CDN v.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 18, 2025

It is one of the many video game addiction lawsuits percolating throughout the courts nationwide. The court applies the law formalistically: N.O. 2025 WL 694428 (M.D. March 4, 2025) The post Video Game Addiction Case Mostly Sent to Arbitration–Orellana v. [Introductory note: This case appeared in my alerts recently.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 7, 2025

18] They also argue that Honey is intentionally interfering with contractual relations, a cause of action under tort law. [19] 24, 2025). [2] 15, 2025), [link] [hereinafter Behind the Buzz ]. [3] 7, 2025), [link] [19] Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Image link: [link] [1] Compl. ¶ 1, Latina Tradwife v. 3] See Compl.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 28, 2025

Time for a stroll down Internet Law’s memory lane… Cases about including a trademark in post-domain URLs date back to the 1990s. In other words, for decades, everyone believed that any URL component to the right of the top-level domain was irrelevant to trademark law. May 15, 2025). Thanks to Prof. Emoji GmbH v.

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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. What is the Lawsuit About? If the design is functional, it cannot be protected under trade dress law.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 21, 2025

But what exactly is threatening movie theaters in 2025? 10] The Paramount Decrees governed the eight studios implicated in the lawsuit: MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, United Artists, and Columbia. [11] 3, 2025), [link] [3] J. 2, 2025), [link] Paramount Pictures, Inc. 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. And there is a legal regime dedicated to that issue, and it’s called copyright law. A real party-in-interest to this lawsuit is OpenAI.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 11, 2025

Relevant Federal Law: Balancing User Privacy with Child Protection In the 1980s, Congress passed a law called the Stored Communications Act (SCA) that created a statutory right of privacy for Americans digital files and communications. NCMEC routes received reports to the appropriate law enforcement agency.

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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”). But it’s still worth following, because these narrow and technical areas of the law are likely where these decisions are headed.

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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

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. To be clear, the ruling I’m blogging today isn’t a SAD Scheme case. Case Citation : Viral DRM LLC v.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 13, 2025

Environmental law in the U.S. In 2025, a political wave of deregulation stands to change how environmental law functions. History of environmental law in the U.S. History of environmental law in the U.S. Some commentators put the roots of environmental law in the U.S. Heres a snapshot of how some U.S.

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lennyesq

JUNE 16, 2025

The plaintiffs are represented in the lawsuit, Al Otro Lado v. One of the plaintiffs in this lawsuit, Maria Doe, scheduled an appointment through CBP One in hopes of seeking asylum after suffering a years-long retaliation campaign by a cartel that had targeted her for testifying against its police collaborators in Mexico.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Calling all cyberlaw nerds: here is a bona fide “ Law of the Horse ” case. The plaintiff is an Oregon law firm practicing equine law. Copyrightability The case sets up one of the longstanding open questions in copyright law: when are form contracts copyrightable, and when is sharing them infringing?

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. The panel summarizes: “Because Does state law claims necessarily implicate Grindrs role as a publisher of third-party content, 230 bars those claims. Salesforce * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over Users CappingMH v. Case Citation : Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 21, 2025

Ohio enacted a segregate-and-suppress law that requires regulated websites to obtain parental consent before minors can access certain site features. In early 2024, the court granted a preliminary injunction against the law going into effect. Strict Scrutiny Unsurprisingly, the law fails strict scrutiny.

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