This week, the SEC announced a rule that will take effect later this year requiring publicly traded companies to report cybersecurity incidents within 4 days. I also liked the guest blog post by Professors Chon and Farley on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Abitron v. Hetronic. SEC and Cybersecurity Abitron v. Hetronic
Category: Cases
Links for Week of July 14, 2023
This week, I liked that John Welch posted Professor McCarthy’s take on the Jack Daniels Supreme Court case. I also liked Evan Brown’s post regarding copyright and AI creation, specifically whether a human could be a joint author with the AI. Thought provoking for sure! Jack Daniels v. VIP Products Copyright and AI
Links for Week of July 7, 2023
Continuing our trend of looking at Supreme Court cases, last Friday the Court ruled in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that a Colorado website designer did not have to create a website that conflicted with their beliefs, in accordance with the First Amendment. The decision was criticized for its conservative interpretation and the impact on…
Links for Week of June 30, 2023
This week, the Supreme Court ruled in Counterman v. Colorado, which is concerning for its potentially chilling effect on other online stalking cases. Counterman v. Colorado
Links for Week of June 23, 2023
This week, an interesting post by Evan Brown on who owns a social media account used by a business as well as by an individual. I also liked guest posts by Professors Tyler Ochoa and Lisa Ramsey regarding the recent Supreme Court cases in Warhol and Jack Daniels. Social Media Account Ownership Copyright Trademark Parody
Links for Week of June 16, 2023
I’m back this week from vacation. While I was out, at the Supreme Court a decision was reached in the Jack Daniels case. Here are three good takes on it from the Scotus Blog, the TTABlog, and Techdirt. Trademark – Parody
Links for Week of May 26, 2023
This week, more on the Supreme Court’s decision in the Warhol case. Further, CISA published a useful guide for reducing the risk of ransomware. And, Meta was hit with a record privacy fine (1.2 billion Euros) over GDPR compliance. Copyright and Fair Use Ransomware Privacy
Links for Week of May 19, 2023
This week, the Supreme Court issued decisions in the much-watched Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google involving Section 230, as well as the fair-use Copyright decision involving the Andy Warhol estate. More commentary to come, but in the meantime here are links to the decisions. Section 230 Copyright
Links for Week of May 12, 2023
I was quoted this week in a Rolling Stone article by Miles Klee re: Utah’s new age verification law for adult websites. I also liked Dr. Guadamuz’s article re: copyright infringement claims against the owners of the LAION AI dataset. Also, please be sure to register for next Wednesday’s Privacy Law Update webinar. Rolling Stone…
Links for Week of May 5, 2023
This week, I’d like to remind everyone that my Privacy Law Update webinar is coming up on May 17th at 3PM CT. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3zGPHZ1. I see there is an update re: the film studio’s requests to Reddit to unmask anonymous posters. Register for Privacy Law Update Webinar Internet Anonymity