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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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Decoding Justice: Key Differences Between Civil and Criminal Litigation

CaseFox

Have you ever found yourself curious about the legal stuff you hear about? The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. So, hiring a lawyer will play a crucial role in advising, preparing legal documents, and presenting cases in court.

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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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Inspire.Legal 2019

Legal Talk Network

Christian is the Head of Strategy at Reynen Court LLC as well as the author of the Blacklines & Billables blog which, by the way, has its own podcast. Billed as a crowdsourced problem-solving gathering of lawyers, clients, and technologists, this meeting-of-the-minds was founded by our good friend Christian Lang.

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Justia Legal Guides: Disability Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The SSA provides three internal levels of appeals : a reconsideration, a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), and review by the SSA Appeals Council. If a claimant does not get benefits at any of these levels of administrative appeals, they can consider taking their case to federal court.

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Swapping Bots for Lawyers Via App: DoNotPay

Advocate's Studio

DoNotPay, a robot lawyer Chatbot app, is now promising to help people file suits in small claims court, no JD required. DoNotPay offered the ability to sue Equifax in small claims courts throughout the U.S. Does DoNotPay violate state laws on the unauthorized practice of law?

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Pablo Arredondo on the One-Year Anniversary of CoCounsel

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I’m, you know, I think my wife’s credit was like Ken GPT-4 automatically divorce hear from somebody and I Yeah, but um, but um, you know, that that, you know, your startups are pretty all consuming. I mean, that is people do go to law school to get to do that over and over, right? We’d love to hear from you. So that’s part one.