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
Category: Internet Governance
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
Links for Week of April 28, 2023
This week, I’d like to invite people to register for my Privacy Law webinar on May 17, 2023 at 3PM CT. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3zGPHZ1. I liked Dr. Guadamuz’s take on the Yuga Labs NFT dispute over the Bored Apes Yacht Club. Further, Professor Grimmelmann has an interesting article on an economic model for Internet…
Links for Week of April 14, 2023
This week, I note an article by Professor Goldman announcing his new paper about platform regulation. I also liked the EFF’s analysis of the UN’s proposed cybercrime treaty. Internet Governance
Links for Week of March 17, 2023
Here are some interesting articles for this week. In particular, I liked Eric Goldman’s pointing out how the EU’s Right to Be Forgotten can impact Google search results, focusing on an article by Venkat Balasubramani. It’s been quite a while since I last had coffee with Venkat on one of his trips through Chicago, but…
Links for Week of March 10, 2023
Last week I attended ABA Techshow, so here are some links with highlights from the show. I spoke on Tuesday, March 7th at the Chicago Bar Association’s Solo and Small Firm Committee meeting with my takeaways from Techshow. On the topic of geolocation, the FBA admitted this week to buying location data on Americans. Not…
Links for Week of March 3, 2023
Some great further discussion to be had of the Taamneh v. Twitter case argued last week before the Supreme Court, as well as a discussion of the copyright issues with AI. Taamneh v. Twitter Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Links for Week of February 24, 2023
This week’s links relate to the interesting cases argued this week before the US Supreme Court which could greatly impact the future of online interactions. Gonzalez v. Google: Twitter v. Tamaneh