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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In 2019 the antitrust division of the DOJ filed United States v. By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

LawSites

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Three Recommendations.

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A Judge Enumerates a SAD Scheme Plaintiff’s Multiple Abuses, But Still Won’t Award Sanctions–Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

The plaintiff eventually dismissed all of the defendants within 5 weeks of filing the complaint. 5 at 4 (“[A]ddresses provided on the e-commerce stores indicate that the registrants are in China and other neighboring countries.”). Has the plaintiff filed other SAD Scheme cases, and did it commit similar abuses in those cases?

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

LawSites

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Three Recommendations.

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

In 2021, an application was filed to the US Copyright office, for copyright registration of a comic book consisting of text and images (created partly by a human and partly by AI tool “ Midjourney ”). For this purpose, it’s important that developers of DALL-E obtain a license to use such works. Few of the cases are discussed below.

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Legal task management and how it benefits legal ops

Simple Legal

Attorneys have never-ending to-do lists — depositions, hearings, meetings, paperwork, and other correspondence. Event management deals with activities that have a start time, an end time, a location, and invitees like a court hearing or an expert interview. Achieving that goal isn’t always simple, however. Legal ops teams are busy.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E. While this is only the second appellate circuit to adopt this approach, the Second Circuit, having jurisdiction over New York State, hears a disproportionally high number of cases concerning copyright and contracts. Many of those contractual anti-scraping lawsuits were successful.

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