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Announcing the 2022 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Toys ‘R’ Us v. Note About Fair Use.

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Announcing the 2021 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I did not add coverage of the Florida social media censorship law or NetChoice v. Over the years, I’ve posted a number of book excerpts that are accessible for free, including: The entire chapter on online contracts. It makes a nice module to add an online contracts piece to another course. Toys ‘R’ Us v.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

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First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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2022 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On the heels of the mandatory editorial transparency provisions in Florida and Texas’ social media censorship laws, the California legislature thought it could one-up those states by passing a law with at least 161 different disclosure requirements. The opinion upheld every aspect of Texas’ social media censorship law.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2004, the Ninth Circuit eviscerated it (in the Rossi case) by requiring plaintiffs to show that senders subjectively believed their takedown notices were abusive. Diebold from 2004, which led to a $125k damages award. As I’ve blogged many, many times on this blog (see list below), 512(f) has been a complete failure.

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13 Spooky Copyright Cases, Just in Time for Halloween

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” They argued that had Twain really written the book, Clemens’ estate would own the copyright and Harper would have the exclusive right under contract to publish it. Let me know in the comments below or on any social media platform you want, as long as it’s Twitter , Instagram , LinkedIn or Facebook.

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