D.C. Circuit Issues Sweeping Pro-Section 230 Opinion–Marshall’s Locksmith v. Google
…economic advantage, unfair competition, conspiracy, and breach of contract. The district court dismissed all of the claims, other than the contract breach, on Section 230 grounds. The DC Circuit affirms….
Contract Breach Claims Against Google Survive First Amendment Defense–Dreamstime v. Google
…also kicked Dreamstime’s app out of Google Play. Dreamstime sued Google for antitrust violations but that claim was dismissed. Dreamstime also sued Google for contract breach and related claims. Those…
Terminated AdSense Publishers Can’t Get Their Accrued Earnings–eOnline v. Google
…cents per word (i.e., a 1000 word article makes between $7 and $50). Google deemed the plaintiffs in breach of their contract because they allegedly displayed ads on “autogenerated pages…
Section 230 Protects Facebook’s Account and Content Restriction Decisions–Ebeid v. Facebook
…First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; (iii) California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 51 et seq. (the “UCRA” or “Unruh Act”); (iv) fraud/intentional misrepresentation; (v) breach of…
Ex-Employee’s Continued Use of Twitter Account May Be Conversion–Farm Journal v. Johnson
…technically employed by plaintiff. The court also finds that the allegations adequately amount to a breach of the duty of loyalty. The court also finds that plaintiff states a claim…
Photographer Sues for Failure to Provide Creative Commons-Required Attribution–Philpot v. WOS
…up.] Breach of Creative Commons License. WOS claims the benefit of the CC license. Philpot argues they breached the license through misattribution. WOS responds that the CC license flexibly permits…
Recap of the Copyright Office’s Section 512 Study Roundtable
…international laws to comply with and which to ignore? Schruers: many rules are honored in the breach. Wait for governments to block. Oyama: criticism of the Thai king is different…
More Kardashian Drama: A Legal Fight Over Ownership of the Kimoji Emoji Set–Liebensohn v. Kardashian (Guest Blog Post)
…her company, Kimsaprincess Inc. Liebensohn v. Kim Kardashian West, Case No. CIV-19-137-C (complaint filed Feb. 12, 2019). Liebensohn’s complaint alleges claims of breach of a partnership agreement, breach of fiduciary…
Twitter Defeats Yet Another Lawsuit from a Suspended User–Cox v. Twitter
…230(c)(1) along the lines of Sikhs for Justice v. Facebook. Cox also argued Twitter breached its contract. The court says that contract breach may be outside of Section 230’s immunity…
Recap of the California Assembly Hearing on the California Consumer Privacy Act
…but the current language does not do so. What do we know about data breaches? We know that every business has either had a data security breach or will have…