This week, there was a lot of discussion over Canada’s new law requiring publishers to be paid when their news articles are linked to by search engines and social media companies. I also liked Professor Grimmelmann’s forthcoming article with Katherine Lee and A. Feder Cooper on copyright and generative AI. Canadian Publisher Payment Law Copyright…
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Links for Week of July 28, 2023
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
Links for Week of July 21, 2023
So what has your AI been trained upon? A group of authors requests that their copyrighted works not be used for that purpose. Further, for many years American military emails (.MIL) have been mis-sent to Mali (.ML) due to typos. Now, that domain is being transferred back to that country’s control. Finally, I was very…
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 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 January 27, 2023
Internet Law Trademark Facebook and Instagram
Links for Week of January 13, 2023
Broadband Domain Names Contracting
Links for Week of October 7, 2022
Trademark https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/protect/soliciting-attorney-sponsorship Section 230 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/scotus-weighs-first-case-testing-big-tech-liability-for-recommending-content/ Copyright https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/wwe-video-game-maker-owe-artist-depicting-wrestlers-tattoos-jury-says-2022-09-30/ Artificial Intelligence https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/
Links for Week of August 26, 2022
Internet Governance https://knightfoundation.org/events/misc/lessons-from-the-first-internet-ages/ (New content is available, specifically reflections on the conference) Privacy https://iapp.org/news/a/california-attorney-general-announces-first-ccpa-enforcement-action/ Social Media https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/facebook-meta-is-building-a-customer-service-group-for-content-complaints