Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Chegg sent a cease-and-desist letter to Homeworkify’s domain registrar, Namecheap, its proxy server, Cloudflare, and the email address associated with domain registration, but they have found nothing. (for Power Ventures, hiQ Labs, the ill-fated Southwest cases, and all the fancy new generative AI cases broadly fit into this category.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It sent Kiwi cease and desist letters and has implemented security measures, but “Kiwi has continued to hack the Southwest website and sell Southwest flights without permission.”. Southwest asserts claims under the CFAA, the Texas computer crime statute, breach of contract, and trademark.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Are robots.txt, IP address blocks, or cease-and-desist letters still relevant to the CFAA at all?

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 6, 2024

This scenario is no longer just a distant nightmare of the imagination but a real possibility with the advent of AI technology. We have witnessed this groundbreaking technology with Meta’s unveiling of interactive chatbots modeled after renowned celebrities such as Tom Brady, MrBeast, and Snoop Dogg.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Even if Google’s conduct could be interpreted as a technical violation of many websites’ notoriously overbroad terms of service, their conduct doesn’t meet the criteria for most online breach of contract disputes. Trademark, copyright, trespass to chattels, the law of online contracts—none of this stuff is novel.

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