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

Discovery Advocate

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , Further, employers should examine their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies to ensure that what is or is not company data is well defined according to their business, regulatory and litigation needs. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. Link to District Circuit Decision

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

Discovery Advocate

In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , Further, employers should examine their bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies to ensure that what is or is not company data is well defined according to their business, regulatory and litigation needs. In In re Pork Antitrust Litig. , 18-cv-2022 WL 972401 (D. Link to District Circuit Decision

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

Eric Goldman

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. But normative judgments aside, ProCD v.

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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. In other states, direct litigation over the mechanism seems not to have occurred.

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LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses

LawSites

Last year, LexisNexis expanded that to add Judicial Brief Analysis , a tool that enabled users to analyze up to six briefs at a time and receive a report comparing all case law, arguments, citations and quotes. The document analysis tab shows alternative clauses relevant to those within the source document.

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