This case involves the “Baby Shark” earworm song, which has billions of YouTube views and ranks as the #1 most viewed YouTube video of all time. You already know the lyrics (and associated hand/arm movements) by heart, but the high-quality…
In 2021, Jessie Sander was hired as a Jewish educator at the Westchester Reform Temple, located in Scarsdale, NY. Sander calls the temple a “Zionist institution.” The temple’s website still publicly espouses support for Israel. Shortly after she was hired,…
Robots.txt files express a website’s preferences for robot access. Despite their venerability, there are not many cases discussing the legal implications of robots.txt files and robot exclusion headers.[FN] As a result, we still don’t know if they are legally effective…
This is a COVID-related jawboning case: Plaintiffs allege that Defendants violated their constitutional rights by pressuring social media companies to ban or limit their social media posts related to the COVID-19 vaccine….Plaintiffs characterize Defendants’ efforts as “relentless pressure, inducement, coercion,…
The copyright owner Tamaris claims that 100+ websites, including “casinoestelar.com” and “powerbet.win,” infringe their copyrights. The copyright owner obtained a 512(h) unmasking subpoena and served it on GoDaddy. GoDaddy notified the site operator, who asked the court to quash the…
Visa has a rule that merchants can’t impose surcharges on consumers for using their debit cards. However, merchants widely disregard this rule. The plaintiff: alleges that “Visa does not enforce the No Surcharge Rule in a systematic or effective manner,”…
After the Ninth Circuit’s Hunley v. Instagram ruling in 2023, I naively assumed that the case established essential precedent that would quickly end other legal challenges to embedding. WRONG! The anti-embedding cases seem to be going strong, especially in SDNY….
My prior blog post on this case summarized: I’ve blogged many Ripoff Report cases over the years, but it’s been a while since my last one (looks like 2018?). In this case, the plaintiff alleges that someone posted a false attack…
The plaintiff enforces Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s IP rights. It is indeed “sad” to see a living legend like Kareem degrade his legacy by participating in a bottom-feeding operation like the SAD Scheme. The plaintiff filed a SAD Scheme case in 2021…
I note the posting of a draft article, which (unfortunately) has been accepted for publication by the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, entitled “Beyond the Brick-and-Mortar Paradigm: The Legal and Procedural Foundations of Schedule A Litigation in…