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Minnesota Wants to Ban Under-18s From User-Generated Content Services

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It’s also unclear if a service could thread content by topic, or if topical organization also would be an “algorithm.” If the metric is registered accounts, the bill doesn’t define if it’s measuring only active accounts or if it includes dormant, restricted, or terminated accounts. See this article.

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Is the California Legislature Addicted to Performative Election-Year Stunts That Threaten the Internet? (Comments on AB2408)

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The bill has a savings clause to exclude any claims covered Section 230, the First Amendment, and the CA Constitution equivalent. For example, imagine a government-designated censor at a newspaper, deciding if the newspaper can add a new column or feature, add a new topical section, or change the size and layout of the paper.

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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

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Instead, the CJPA takes an asinine, ineffective, unconstitutional, and industry-captured approach to this critical topic. For more on this topic, see Ashutosh A. .” Given these stakes, politicians should prioritize developing good-faith and well-researched ways to facilitate and support journalism. The CJPA is none of that.

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Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273, The Age-Appropriate Design Code Act)

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Third, this bill reaches topics well beyond children’s privacy. Instead, the bill repeatedly implicates general consumer protection concerns and, most troublingly, content moderation topics. ” The scope of this taskforce likely exceeds privacy topics. Dormant Commerce Clause. New Regulations.

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A Seismic Ruling Undone: California’s Sound Recording Copyright Statute Does Not Include Public Performance Rights—Flo & Eddie v. Sirius XM (Guest Blog Post)

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It also ruled that Pandora’s broadcasts were not “in connection with a public issue or topic of public interest,” as required by California’s anti-SLAPP law. I was therefore extremely pleased that the Ninth Circuit not only cited our amicus brief (slip op. Finally, it ruled that 17 U.S.C.

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Will California Clone-and-Revise Some Terrible Ideas from Florida/Texas’ Social Media Censorship Laws? (Analysis of CA AB587)

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. “Consumer reviews of products or services on an internet website that serves the exclusive purpose of facilitating online commerce.” Does Amazon.com EXCLUSIVELY facilitate online commerce? As my Content Moderation Remedies paper showed, this topic is way more complicated than a binary remove/leave up dichotomy.

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Biosimilars 2021 Year in Review

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The letter discusses the BPCIA and the Hatch-Waxman Act frameworks (for small molecule drugs) and sets forth several topics for USPTO’s consideration and further discussion: engagement between FDA and USPTO to increase efficiencies, possible misuse of the patent system (e.g., Ass’n for Accessible Medicines v. Bonta , No.