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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

But by providing a foil in litigation against both the Center for Countering Digital Hate (“CCDH”) and Bright Data (the world’s largest seller of scraped data), he’s given judges in the most important district court in the country for tech legal issues, the Northern District of California, plenty of motivation to rule against him.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Even where a court rules that a company does not have possession, custody or control of an employee’s text messages pursuant to its BYOD policy or other factors, those text messages still may be discoverable through a subpoena to the employee directly.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Even where a court rules that a company does not have possession, custody or control of an employee’s text messages pursuant to its BYOD policy or other factors, those text messages still may be discoverable through a subpoena to the employee directly.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. There are more than 300 opinions by federal courts dealing with the express preemption of contracts, and within them two main approaches have emerged. ML Genius v. A third approach?

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The 9 Best Free Legal Research Tools And Databases For Lawyers

CaseFox

Fastcase can provide firms and legal professionals online access to various cases, case law, statutes, amendments, rules & regulations. Not just that, it also provides information about court laws, constitutions and law review articles, etc. You can find cases in Justia from various different courts.

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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: Unpacking State Legislative Vetoes; How to Break Up Amazon; Specialist Directors; Mandatory Equity Issuances as a First-Best Solution to Punishing Corporate Misconduct

Wisblawg

Evaluating the significance, legality, and desirability of legislative vetoes must start with an understanding of the existing legal landscape, including the wide array of state law provisions and court decisions across the country. Some of these rulings have been superseded by constitutional amendment or statutory adjustment.