This week, I liked Tori Noble, Mitch Stoltz, and Corynne McSherry’s article at Techdirt analyzing the Copyright Office’s recent guidance on fair use and AI. The FTC’s monopoly trial against Meta ended this week, with a ruling expected by the end of the year. Finally, Getty Images reported that it is too expensive to pursue…
Category: Antitrust
Links for Week of May 2, 2025
This week, Apple is facing potential criminal contempt in their dispute with Epic over the app store. Another lawyer filed a brief with errors attributable to AI hallucinations. Yes, it’s still happening. Finally, don’t file documents with the court that have a dragon logo watermarked on every page. Also, here’s a link to my most…
Links for Week of April 25, 2025
This week, I liked the article by Geoff Huston giving the background on the current Internet Governance regime. Professor Goldman had a nice post about a recent 9th Circuit decision that turns our normal conceptions of internet jurisdiction on their head. Finally, an update on the Google antitrust case as it heads into the remedy…
Links for Week of April 18, 2025
This week, a verdict was reached in the Google monopoly trial. Mark Zuckerberg testified in the Meta antitrust trial. And, a post from the prior week by Professor Goldman (which I read this week, hence its inclusion) about the copyright liability of Roblox for including a song within a game element. Google Antitrust Verdict Zuckerberg…
Links for Week of November 29, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving! Posts are lighter than usual this week due to the shorter working week. Still, I wanted to point out a few posts of note. Several posts discussed a recent Schedule A case where the Northern District appears to be looking closer at joinder. On CircleID, I liked Doug Dawson’s post about copyright liability…
Links for Week of November 22, 2024
This week, the Department of Justice revealed its plan to remedy Google’s search monopoly by requiring a sale of its Chrome browser. Ever wonder what the data that companies get from online games is used for? This week, Niantic announced that the geolocation data from its players is used to train an AI model. Finally,…
Links for Week of October 11, 2024
This week, TikTok was sued by a dozen states, adding to their legal woes. The DOJ is reportedly considering a breakup of Google. Finally, the Verge had a good summary of the WordPress.org feud between their CEO Mett Mullenweg and the WP Engine platform. TikTok Sued By States DOJ Considering Google Breakup WordPress Feud With…
Links for Week of August 9, 2024
This week, Google Search and Advertising were ruled to be a monopoly. Further, Interisle published their 4th annual survey on the scope and distribution of Phishing. It’s interesting reading to see where and how these phishing websites are hosted. Google Antitrust Ruling Study on Phishing
Links for Week of April 26, 2024
This week, the US signed into law a ban on ByteDance owning TikTok as part of an appropriations bill; the company has 270 days to sell off TikTok or lose access to the US market. Edward Zitron published an interesting article, looking through emails produced during the antitrust case, explaining what went wrong behind the…
Links for Week of October 6, 2023
This week, I liked Professor Eric Goldman’s post regarding the “Schedule-A Defendants” cases which are ongoing. In this one, the court looked at the merits of the trademark which was asserted, namely an emoji, and found for the defendant. In other news, the US v. Google antitrust case is ongoing. Trademark Litigation US v. Google…