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1H 2021 Quick Links, Part 4 (Advertising, Contracts, & More)

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Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood used Ice Cube’s picture and paraphrase of a line from his song to illustrate an article about market corrections. Reminder: courts sometimes demand that consumers click twice to form a contract. On the contrary, they seem easily separable. 2021 WL 2435307 (N.D. June 15, 2021). Employment.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

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by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. It’s not that half of federal judges have adopted one clear stance on copyright preemption of contracts and the other half have adopted another clear stance. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

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Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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Amazon Screws Up Its TOS Amendments (Again)–Jackson v. Amazon

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At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. Amazon updated the TOS in 2019 to make explicit that arbitrability would be decided by an arbitrator, and it emailed the drivers the new TOS. We have previously observed the importance of notice in the analogous context of electronic consumer contracts. It did not do so.”

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Peloton Can’t Bind All Family Members To Its Arbitration Provision–SS v. Peloton

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It’s a reminder that you must consider how you will introduce evidence of contract formation in addition to worrying about the contract terms and formation process. “To the extent the contract pertains to use of Peloton’s Services (e.g., ” Thus, the nonparties cannot be swept into the contract.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

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sued Bright Data for trespass to chattels, breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract, violation of California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, and misappropriation. As I wrote back in December, scraping claims are almost always about unwanted copying and distribution of data. In November 2023, X corp.

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Verizon Must Disconnect Pirates & Block Pirate Sites, New Lawsuit Demands

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In 2019, Cox Communications was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages to record labels. According to the plaintiffs, IP addresses allocated to Verizon/Cellco Partnership were monitored by anti-piracy tracking outfit Maverickeye downloading and sharing pirate copies of their movies. Hundreds of Thousands of Infringements.