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Court Dismisses School Districts’ Lawsuits Over Social Media “Addiction”–In re Social Media Cases

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There are two critically important cases over “social media addiction” pending in California state court and as an MDL in the federal Northern District of California. Despite the importance of those Fall 2023 rulings, I never blogged either. [Warning: this is a 5,600 word blog post].

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Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? Be Careful!–Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel

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It then went further and used the photo to promote the robe: In 2023, Sunny Khachatryan obtained a copyright registration for “Brave’s” photo. June 14, 2024) The post Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? The opinion doesn’t explain the relationship between “Brave” and Sunny. Be Careful!–Khachatryan

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Announcing the 2022 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

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For what it’s worth, this year I’ll teach the course in Spring 2023 instead of Fall 2022). e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. Primer on FOSTA. Jurisdiction.

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adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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Princeton insured Wonderland from 2016-2018 (with a broad exclusion for defamation, invasion of privacy, and various forms of advertising injury in the second year called the Exhibitions and Related Marketing Exclusion), and agreed to defend the club but reserved the right to deny insurance coverage. 2023); but see Princeton Express v.

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My “Summer” 2022 Activities

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While that is pretty sweet, I will pay for it next year when I teach Internet Law in both Spring and Fall 2023. [FN: I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. Comments to the CPPA’s Proposed Regulations Pursuant to the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020, Aug. Regulation of Political Advertising (2022 Edition).

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Court Says Twitter Misused Litigation to Punish Defendants for Their Speech–X v. CCDH

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In a highly technical ruling, the court rejects Twitter’s CFAA claim on a motion to dismiss and rejects Twitter’s other claims, including breach of contract, on an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. As a result, CCDH met the first prong of the anti-SLAPP protections that the lawsuit targeted socially important speech.

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using testimonials post-relationship failure can be a ROP problem

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LA CV 21-02069-DOC-KES, 2023 WL 8351525 (C.D. 23, 2023) The individual defendants co-founded COY in 2019 to provide creator clients with a platform to offer subscription services. Things eventually went bad, resulting in contract/trade secret claims and copyright/ROP counterclaims. COY Collective, Inc.,