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Section 230 and the First Amendment Curtail An Online Videogame Addiction Lawsuit–Angelilli v. Activision

Eric Goldman

Seeking redress, Plaintiffs sued Defendants on the theory that their design decisions and failure to disclose the dangers of their products were the cause of D.G.s Plaintiffs further allege that D.G.s gaming has resulted in serious harm, including emotional distress, lost friends, and problems in school. addiction and Plaintiffs injuries.

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Suspended Twitter User Loses Lawsuit Over Data Access–Thomas v. Twitter

Eric Goldman

He wanted access to his content, so he requested an account download. However, he says the download links provided by Twitter were “defective,” so he sued Twitter pro se. Twitter’s TOS terms “clearly disclaim any responsibility for Twitter’s failure to store or transmit content.” Conversion.

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SimpleLegal’s event management: Reducing risk, one event at a time

Simple Legal

Failure to manage these events effectively can lead to severe consequences such as case dismissal, attorney sanctions, and even lawsuits. Mitigate risk The stakes are high in the legal world, and failure to comply with court rules and deadlines can expose businesses to significant risk.

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Section 230 Immunizes Snap, Even if It’s “Inherently Dangerous”–L.W. v. Snap

Eric Goldman

” This does not persuade the judge: the Court must treat Defendants as publishers or speakers, regardless of how their claims are framed, because their theories of liability plainly turn on Defendants’ alleged failure to monitor and remove third-party content. To get around Section 230, the plaintiffs attempted the Lemmon v.

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Internet Access Providers Can Be Contributorily Liable for Subscribers’ Infringements–Sony Music v. Cox

Eric Goldman

As I’ve previously written, for many years after the DMCA passed, everyone assumed that 17 USC 512(a) completely shielded Internet access providers from liability for subscribers’ copyright infringements. If 512(a) provided full immunity, the Copyright Alert System was unnecessary and pernicious to both IAPs and their subscribers.

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Internet Access Providers Face Contributory Copyright Liability for Subscribers’ Infringements–UMG v. Grande

Eric Goldman

This is another lawsuit against an Internet access provider (IAP) for user-committed copyright infringement via P2P file sharing. For more background on this issue, see this rrcap and the links at the bottom of this post. My post on a pre-pandemic district court ruling in this case. As usual, a key non-litigant is Rightscorp, which sent 1.3M

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Preliminary Copyright Office Guidance on Fair Use and AI Provides Some Answers, But Questions Remain

Debevoise Data Blog

There are dozens of cases pending against AI developers stemming from their use of copyrighted works to train generative AI models. In response, developers have uniformly asserted that such use is a fair use. The new Registrar could revise the report, or never make it official in any form. Many uses, however, will fall somewhere in between. [2]