Section 230 Applies to Claims Over Hijacked Accounts (Except Maybe Verified Accounts)–Wozniak v. YouTube
…QR code included in the video, will receive twice as much in return. The images and text often include trademarks, such as the Apple logo, and a link to a…
Think You Understand Online Trespass to Chattels Law? Think Again–In re Meta Healthcare Pixels
…I’m going to focus on the court’s ruling on trespass to chattels doctrines. It will rock your world (not necessarily in a good way). California Penal Code 502 (Comprehensive Data…
2023 Internet Law Year-in-Review
…(forthcoming) Common Carriage and Capitalism’s Invisible Hand, Marquette Lawyer, Summer 2023, at 25 (critiquing James Speta, Can Common Carrier Principles Control Internet Platform Dominance?) California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act Threatens…
Web Page Framing Isn’t Trespass to Chattels–Best Carpet Values v. Google
…hardware (the servers), the domain name, the web pages as electronic files, the web pages’ HTML code, the web pages’ substantive content, and more. In other words, the district court…
Court Enjoins Ohio’s Law Requiring Parental Approval for Children’s Social Media Accounts–NetChoice v. Yost
…That the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC/AB 2273) Is Radical Policy * An Interview Regarding AB 2273/the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) * Op-Ed: The Plan to Blow Up the…
2023 Quick Links: IP, Keyword Ads
…based on user-caused copyright infringement. * Live Face on Web LLC v. Cremation Society of Illinois, No. 22-1641 (7th Cir. Aug. 11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that…
Many Fifth Circuit Judges Hope to Eviscerate Section 230–Doe v. Snap
…So are we doing it all over again? Why, yes we are: Section 502 of the Communications Decency Act expressly authorizes distributor liability for knowingly displaying obscene material to minors….
Section 230 Protects Gmail’s Spam Filter–RNC v. Google
…Civil Code section 2168. If you want an offline analogy, it’s why the postal service is a common carrier but the local mailbox vendor offering PO Boxes is not a…
Comments on the Ruling Declaring California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Unconstitutional–NetChoice v. Bonta
…Ways That the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC/AB 2273) Is Radical Policy Some Memes About California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AB 2273) An Interview Regarding AB 2273/the California Age-Appropriate Design Code…
Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)
…is behind 46% of the “developers’” code across all programming languages and 61% of all code written in Java. Those percentages are only going to go up as these tools…