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. 6] Despite these challenges, plaintiffs are not slowing down, and new lawsuits were filed at a steady clip over the course of 2024.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

I asked “What are good ideas for a niche legal blog on agriculture law in Iowa?” Overviews of Iowa’s state laws and regulations related to farming and agriculture, including those pertaining to zoning, land use, and conservation. Information on farm succession planning and estate planning for farmers.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ rights to post reviews on Yelp).

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

” Remember this perspective when the Ninth Circuit analyzes the various censorial state laws designed to control or strip away “platforms'” curatorial or discovery efforts. Even if we took judicial notice and accepted the information as true, Instagrams purported policy does not support Woodlands theory.

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LLRX

JULY 15, 2023

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s delay in definitively resolving this case will leave a vacuum for reviewing many other pending and imminent constitutional challenges to state laws.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A reminder: this lawsuit is a battle royale. Combined with prior rulings, in the October 24, 2024 ruling, the court summarizes where the various claims stand: It’s even more complicated, because several of the plaintiffs’ claims are based on state laws. They will need to clear their calendar. Meta Platforms, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 6, 2025

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. 1202(b)(1), which prohibits “intentionally remov[ing] or alter[ing] any copyright management information” (“CMI”). Opinion at 17.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Where the motion to dismiss concerns questions of law, additional discovery is not required. Therefore, as MindGeek’s motion to dismiss concerns only questions of law, no discovery is required to rule on the motion to dismiss. There is evidence Defendants’ conduct exceeded standard publication decisions. Offerup Inc.,

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

By delivering the pixel and related items like cookies, the third party can independently and automatically gather information about the web visitor. This information can be used for analytics purposes or to track users, which can then be fed into remarketing or other targeting. Using a pixel to track users is an Old School practice.

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Brett Trout

MAY 24, 2024

Whereas your freedom of speech is protected by the Constitution, your right of publicity is protected by a mix of different state laws. Depending on which state you bring your right of publicity lawsuit, you may have a lot or only a little protection.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. Taco Bell Corp. , 3d 446 (6th Cir.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

Many interpreted this as allowing an affirmative right to scrape public data, even if that was not the correct reading of the law and the reality was always more nuanced. has filed multiple lawsuits against web scrapers, including against Bright Data , which is perhaps the biggest web-scraping company in the world. Verio, Inc.

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. Understanding the key differences between these two types of lawsuits could be extremely helpful if you ever find yourself in a difficult circumstance.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 15, 2024

While it appears the dispute is settled and the creators may have indeed obtained all of the necessary releases, very little information has been publicly disseminated about the issue, so any opinion on the matter is little more than conjecture at this point. Even if what you want to do is legal in your state, it may not be legal in another.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This lawsuit seeks to hold Letgo liable for the murders. Since we affirm the district court’s rulings on the state law claims, we need not resolve the federal law cross appeal.” 1, 2024) The post Online Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Murder–Roland v. Negligence. Case Citation : Roland v. Letgo, Inc.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

Unbeknownst to most, however, is that 167 law enforcement agencies across Virginia are now using public-facing surveillance technology such as Automatic License Plate Readers (“ALPR”) and gunshot listening devices. [1] 3] The city of Norfolk has deployed 172 ‘Flock Safety’ ALPRs, resulting in numerous lawsuits. [4] Roberson, 113 Va.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Podcast Transcript: [Tiffaney] 0:12 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. We’ve seen all sorts of different types of technology employed in different parts of our justice system, from pretrial risk assessments to facial recognition to just giant databases of information. I’m Tiffaney Boyd.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

These realistic images, audio, and videos, where used for purposes of a misrepresentation or to falsely spread information, are commonly dubbed “deepfakes.” Instead, states prohibit deepfakes in specific, harmful contexts. Content generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to improve and become more convincing.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Even though the legal system punished the wrongdoers, the lawsuits continue. Twitter , the FOSTA workaround to Section 230 fails: “Doe expressly alleges he informed Grindr he was over eighteen, so his direct perpetrator claim fails on this record because he cannot now assert that Grindr knew or should have known that Doe was a minor.”

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The plaintiffs claim that IXL “collected and monetized the data of millions of school-age children who used the IXL platform without parental consent,” in violation of the ECPA and state law. Roblox Amazon Can’t Force Arbitration of Minors’ Privacy Lawsuit Over Alexa Recordings–BF v.

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 6, 2025

Antitrust lawyers can also bring antitrust lawsuits on behalf of individuals, against companies and other bodies. Most antitrust lawsuits are actually brought by private citizens who have been harmed by antitrust activity. Although an individual lawsuit is possible, antitrust suits by citizens are typically class actions.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

9, 2024) The lawsuit alleges Meta addicts teens and thus violates DC’s consumer protection act. It refers to information provided by another information content provider, which divides the world into first-party content and third-party content. ” State v. District of Columbia v. Meta Platforms, Inc.,

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Some of them contain 50-state surveys that track variations in state laws on a key issue. Family Law Matters involving domestic relations tend to have high stakes, financially and emotionally. Readers also can find a 50-state survey on adoption laws and forms.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 15, 2025

. * * * In Lindke, the Supreme Court held that a public officials social-media activity constitutes state action under 1983 only if the official (1) possessed actual authority to speak on the States behalf, and (2) purported to exercise that authority when he spoke on social media. Ocasio-Cortez Lawsuit Over AOCs Twitter Blocks Pres.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The plaintiff brought a FOSTA lawsuit. I’ll just quote this line as an example of the court’s results-oriented discussion: “CSAM, by contrast, is itself a violent crime, a record of that crime, and contrabandnot information.” Salesforce * Omegle Defeats Lawsuit Over Users CappingMH v. Prior blog post.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Overall, it was an informative if sobering discussion on the state of the legal system’s preparedness for inevitable collisions with deep fake technology. But, you know, to me, it’s kind of a lot of it falls on counsel and, and then being educated enough to inform the bench about the technology that’s coming in.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 3, 2025

Without Section 230, and in the face of a tsunami of new state laws imposing onerous obligations on UGC sites, I will be burdened with increasing legal risks and obligations for allowing readers to comment. What will Internet Law look like in 10 years? I also am a UGC site in that I permit readers to post comments.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 28, 2023

Overall, it was an informative if sobering discussion on the state of the legal system’s preparedness for inevitable collisions with deep fake technology. But, you know, to me, it’s kind of a lot of it falls on counsel and, and then being educated enough to inform the bench about the technology that’s coming in.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

Pornhub also challenged Judge Coogler’s distinction between disseminating “information,” which is protected by 230, and possessing “contraband,” which is not. (“Judge Coogler reasoned that CSAM is itself a violent crime, a record of that crime, and contraband not information.”) Cite to Doe v.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Thus, this lawsuit implicates Section 230’s extraterritorial application, but the court didn’t address this issue. Publisher/speaker claims: “Plaintiff alleges that Defendant allowed people to post defamatory information about him on their website, and did not remove the information.

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