Eric Goldman

JULY 18, 2023

That section states that rights under state laws that are “equivalent” to rights under copyright law are preempted. The case law in the Ninth Circuit — the other appellate circuit central to developing copyright law, especially regarding new technologies — seems to support the Seventh Circuit’s majority approach.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Section 301(a) of the Copyright Act provides that “no person is entitled to any such right or equivalent right in any such work under the common law or statutes of any State.” With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted. were web scraping cases. Verio, Inc.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

That increases the government’s ability, and specifically, in many cases, law enforcement ability to watch people, to watch list people, to bring the light weight of the criminal justice system and the carceral system down on people. And with that comes power, right? And so this is a huge problem.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 23, 2025

By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, a federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit filed two-and-a-half years ago by then-former President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, over publication of The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump. July 18, 2025).

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The court responds: “Pointing to persuasive case law, Fenix contends that Plaintiff’s allegations far well short of what is needed to overcome CDA immunity. Thus, this lawsuit implicates Section 230’s extraterritorial application, but the court didn’t address this issue.

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