TikTok Defeats Lawsuit Over User’s Suicide–Nasca v. Bytedance
…complained about Epstein forwarding a disparaging email about him, and Epstein invoked Section 230. In general, Section 230 can apply to email forwarding, a topic I’ve covered repeatedly on the…
Section 230 Still Applies to Email Forwarding–Motekaitis v. USI
…a special fascination for the email forwarding cases. On the surface, Section 230’s application seems weird. An email user isn’t Google or Facebook, and they are just forwarding emails, not…
Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to “Editorializing” About Third-Party Content–Marvin v. Lanctot
…case as analogous to the email forwarding cases (Phan v. Pham is quite on point), the linking cases (Milo v. Martin is also quite analogous), and the retweeting/quote tweeting cases,…
Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)
…agreeing to the TOU, Craigslist provides services to its users “including but not limited to classified advertising, forums, and email forwarding.” TOU at 1. Because the Copyright Act generally does…
Section 230 Protects Emailing an Article–Monge v. University of Pennsylvania
…for Section 230–Monsarrat v. Newman Judge Balks At Section 230 Protection For Email Forwarding–Samsel v. DeSoto County School District Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Email Forwarding of Screenshotted Tweets?–Maxfield v. Maxfield…
“Liking” a Facebook Post Isn’t Defamatory–Gallagher v. MaternityWise
…“Whisper Network”–Comyack v. Giannella Hyperlinking to Sources Can Help Defeat Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris Courtney Love Defeats Twibel Claims–Holmes v. Love Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Email Forwarding of Screenshotted Tweets?–Maxfield…
Another Court Says Section 230 Applies to Retweeting–Holmok v. Burke
…Defeat Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris Courtney Love Defeats Twibel Claims–Holmes v. Love Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Email Forwarding of Screenshotted Tweets?–Maxfield v. Maxfield Another Court Says It’s OK To Link…
Section 230 Protects Retweeting–Banaian v. Bascom
…tweet was forwarded by email. The court there said 230 did not apply, but I think that court was wrong; plus maybe email forwarding and using Twitter’s native retweet function…
Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Quote-Tweeting–US Dominion v. Byrne
…Defamation Claims–Adelson v. Harris Courtney Love Defeats Twibel Claims–Holmes v. Love Section 230 Doesn’t Protect Email Forwarding of Screenshotted Tweets?–Maxfield v. Maxfield Another Court Says It’s OK To Link To…
Mirroring Qualifies for Section 230–Monsarrat v. Newman
…email forwarding cases (e.g., Phan v. Pham, Barrett v. Rosenthal) and the D’Alonzo case involving reposting a newspaper article. Other apropos cases include the awful DF Pace v. Baker-White ruling…