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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If the issue lies in loopholes within the ToS, the solution seems straightforward: draft tighter contracts and perhaps incorporate a browsewrap on your platforms to catch those who don’t hold accounts. X’s breach of contract cases against CCDH for violating its ToS by scraping also didn’t fare well. In 2022, in ML Genius v.

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

This Africa IP Highlights 2022 is the result of collaboration between myself and Doreen Adoma Agyei and Clarisse Mideva. We begin with developments in the copyright field. In February , Kenya’s parliament passed the Copyright Amendment Bill 2021. [For Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-02

Barry Sookman

EU, US set to agree on landmark transatlantic data transfer pact [link] 2022-03-27. United States and EU Announce Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework [link] 2022-03-27. Privacy Shield to Intensify – National Law Review [link] 2022-03-27. online contract terms enforced by court, Scott v.

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Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-05-07

Barry Sookman

Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2022-04-30 [link] 2022-05-01. The Anti-Copyright Hyperbole Fails to Sway the Canadian Government – Hugh Stephens Blog [link] 2022-05-01. It is not unlawful for a government to use modern means of communication which delete communications and make them… [link] 2022-05-01.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Moritz College of Law The copyrightcontract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. We know, however, that many laws limit free access and use of information goods, most prominently copyright law (and IP law generally). Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E.

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Anna’s Archive Faces Millions in Damages and a Permanent Injunction

TorrentFreak

The site launched in the fall of 2022 , just days after Z-Library was targeted in a U.S. For example, the organization spent $1,548,693 on upgrades for its hardware infrastructure, and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract that helps to protect the service against malicious outside attacks.

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

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.