Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ rights to post reviews on Yelp). violations; but I also think it’s clear this lawsuit is going to fail eventually. 25, 2024) The post Amazon Must Defend “Yelp Law” Claim–Ramos v. My primer on that law. Amazon.com, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 11, 2025

According to Pandabuy’s website, “All the searched products are from third party platforms, Pandabuy only provides information search, agent shopping and shipping services. Schedule A Defendants Judge Rejects SAD Scheme JoinderToyota v. Schedule A Defendants Another Judge Balks at SAD Scheme JoinderXie v.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. If that’s true with the other 18 cases, Roblox may have sued 4,000+ defendants using the SAD Scheme. Hierl was the lead counsel on the Emojico case I opined on in 2021.] * * * Jurisdiction The defendant Bigfinz sells t-shirts. at issue here.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every SAD Scheme lawsuit is problematic, though the specific reasons may differ. Each lawsuit creates dozens or hundreds of individual dramas, few of which receive any public scrutiny, and usually comes at the cost of due process and the rule of law. As usual, the Schedule A provides threadbare information about each defendant.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Consumer Protection Law Center at Justia offers both practical advice and legal information. How Long Will Negative Information Stay on My Credit Report? A credit reporting agency also can keep information about a bankruptcy in the consumers file for 10 years. What Happens in a Product Recall?

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The plaintiff claims that the defendant company is engaging in a form of corporate identity theft, trading on its license number, and that Angi promoted the interloper as a certified contractor without doing proper verification. Angi unsuccessfully defends on Section 230 grounds. It matches contractors with homeowners.

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Law Technology Today

AUGUST 29, 2023

Over 18 class-action lawsuits have been filed against hospitals and counting, alleging they are sharing health data via online trackers. Besides healthcare, we’ve seen plaintiffs’ attorneys bring class-action lawsuits related to sharing video streaming data from websites to Facebook via the Meta pixel under the Video Privacy Protection Act.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Consumer Protection Law Center offers information about these topics and others related to consumer rights. They can bring a civil lawsuit against whoever was responsible for the improper practice, seeking the damages that they sustained as a result.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

The plaintiff sued 163 defendants for online marketplace sales and got an ex parte TRO, including Amazon account freezes. After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. Then, the case fell apart. See ECF No.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 27, 2024

Accordingly, every time he played NBA 2K21 with his customized player, Plaintiff alleges that Amazon obtained, disseminated, and stored his biometric information. Plaintiff further alleges that Defendants knew they were collecting biometric data from Illinois citizens, including children, in violation of Illinois state law.”

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

Lack of Access Courts have consistently held that posting works on the Internet, without more, doesn’t ensure that the defendant had “access” to them for purposes of copying-in-fact. Even if we took judicial notice and accepted the information as true, Instagrams purported policy does not support Woodlands theory.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2024

The US government brought a civil lawsuit against the defendants for 203 violations. A reminder that if the US government had prosecuted the defendants for violating the Clean Air Act, Section 230 would have been irrelevant (it doesn’t apply to federal criminal prosecutions). The defendants sell this hardware.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

The past year was marked by many more filed cases than decisions, and those decisions that were issued largely demonstrated how well-known pitfalls will also hamper this new wave of AI lawsuits. 1] Proving Defendants Use of Training Data Inputs. In Millette v. OpenAI, Inc., Showing Substantial Similarity of Generative AI Outputs.

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Clio

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As for the legal briefing on your own cases, book a demo with Clio to see how our practice management solution can help you keep case information and documents organized and boost your productivity. Outline the case facts In this section, you will outline the relevant facts that led up to the filing of the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 6, 2025

Though Microsoft is the named defendant in the case, the real players here are the New York Times and OpenAI. The lawsuit boils down to two key allegations, (1) OpenAI uses copyrighted content to train their LLMs, and (2) occasionally spews out copyrighted content in its answers to customer queries. Opinion at 17. The court agreed.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 12, 2023

“the reviews and complaints posted to BBB and BBB-GM profiles concern issues of public interest because such posts are intended to provide otherwise unavailable information about specific businesses to the public and future potential consumers.” Here, it meant “information content providers”). Defamation.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 9, 2025

But the rise in dupes has brought a corresponding rise in dupe lawsuits, or at least lawsuits that offer up defendants’ or consumers’ use of the term “dupe” as evidence of confusing similarity or intent to deceive. At the same time, this lawsuit seems to have inspired a lot of interest—in the Costco products.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 4, 2025

It claims that 7News Australia downloaded videos from YouTube, stripped out the copyright management information (CMI), and incorporated the videos into its own videos that it uploaded to YouTube. Based on this ruling, Viral DRM’s earlier SAD Scheme lawsuit also may have been deficient on copyright standing grounds. Alibaba N.D.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 21, 2024

“Plaintiff alleges Defendants downloaded and copied Plaintiff’s copyrighted materials from YouTube, and then re-uploaded infringing versions of Plaintiff’s copyrighted media content to their YouTube channels.” ” Viral DRM sued 20 defendants enumerated in a Schedule A and got an ex parte TRO. Jurisdiction.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 20, 2025

The plaintiffs claim that purchasing the defendant’s initial loss leader offering caused the plaintiffs to subscribe to a hidden monthly recurring charge. Invoking the arbitration clause in the TOS, the defendant sought to send the lawsuit to arbitration. This case involves the Homeaglow/Dazzle Cleaning services.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. This core theory of injury focuses on the impact of compulsive use itself, irrespective of third-party content, defendants protected publishing activity and defendants protected first-party speech. 7, 2024) The plaintiffs named Zuckerberg as a defendant individually.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

Upon investigation, the attorneys and law firms admitted that the citations were AI-generated hallucinationsfalse information produced by AIresulting in the court imposing disciplinary actions on all of the attorneys involved. AI hallucinations occur when an AI model generates information that appears credible but is entirely fictitious.

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Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

Build a Barrier to Imitators Registering your trademark puts competitors and counterfeiters on notice that your brand is legally protected, and that you are prepared to defend it. Having the knowledge of what it takes to win a trademark infringement lawsuit helps inform the best practices on the registration side.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 18, 2023

Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 18, 2023

The rulings should put a decisive end to the genre of lawsuits over social media supporting terrorists; and the Twitter ruling will cast a negative shadow over other cases alleging that social media services facilitate illegal activity. Twitter, Inc. Taamneh , No.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Emojico has trademark registrations in the word “emoji” for a ridiculously broad range of product categories–from (I’m not making this up) ship hulls to penis enlargers–and it then licenses the word to product manufacturers and defendants ensnared in its enforcement net. One defendant fought back.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 17, 2023

is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. On May 11th, the court ruled on the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss , granting in part and denying in part. — Plaintiffs brought twelve separate claims against Defendants.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2023

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode. Microsoft defended on Section 230 grounds. The court agrees with Microsoft.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 7, 2024

The court dismisses Bloom’s lawsuit against US Weekly. But a desire to turn a profit does not in and of itself indicate a defendant acted with actual malice… plaintiff’s theory that defendant chose the photograph of plaintiff for its commercial appeal defies reason. Defamation.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 12, 2025

Shockingly, the plaintiff didnt contest any of the other 512 elements, so Joybuy defeats the lawsuit. This switcheroo doesn’t answer the question on the table, because the 512(c) defense requires the defendant to BOTH not have the requisite supervisory ability AND not have a direct financial interest in the infringements.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

28, 2020): There are facts from which a jury could determine that Defendants created and/or developed website content making the immunity under Section 230 of the CDA inapplicable and thus summary judgment is not appropriate. There is evidence Defendants’ conduct exceeded standard publication decisions. ” * Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 9, 2024

Lloyd brought a pro se lawsuit against Facebook raising a myriad of concerns. ” The Rehabilitation Act “does not apply to defendants who are private entities that do not receive federal funds.” Among other reasons, “her negligence claim treats defendants as the publishers of the harassing posts.”

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds. The court responds: The result in Lemmon makes sense, of course, because the plaintiffs there did not attempt to hold the defendant liable for publication of third-party content. She sued Snapchat for her harms. As usual nowadays, the plaintiffs invoked Lemmon v. Backpage ].

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Arizona saw an 8% drop in defaults caused by defendants who fail to appear in court. For example, the report says that just after courts closed down, national debt collectors quickly ramped up filings, using online tools to file thousands of lawsuits every month. Disproportionate Impact.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 1, 2024

States around the country are flooding the zone with new Internet censorship laws, many of which are predicated on the same misguided and censorial assumptions that informed the Texas and Florida laws.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2023

Professor Farley and I propose a trademark fair use defense that would apply to any informational or expressive use of language or designs claimed by another as a mark in connection with any goods or services. Thus, it is easier for the defendant to win on a motion to dismiss under this test. A consumer survey is not required.

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