This week, Meta claimed (in a filing to support its motion to dismiss the copyright claims over using the torrented files to train their AI) that its not copyright infringement if the torrented files are not further seeded. Good luck with that claim, Meta. There has also been more discussion of whether the new DOGE…
Category: Copyright
Links for Week of February 14, 2025
This week, I liked Professor Guadamuz’s recap of the current state of AI and copyright ownership. There have been more developments in the new DOGE department’s access to data, including three lawsuits. Finally, there has been some good commentary on the Thomson Reuters v Ross copyright case over the copyrightability of the Westlaw Headnotes system….
Links for Week of February 7, 2025
Here’s a scary one – certain apps that had been approved to be on the Apple and Google Play app stores were found to have malware that used OCR on the device’s photo library to look for stored crypto passwords. New allegations were made that Meta torrented 81.7 terrabytes of pirated content to train its…
Links for Week of January 31, 2025
This week, my partner Roenan Patt wrote an article about a recent case discussing whether passwords can be treated like tangible property. RDAP is replacing WHOIS – do you know about it? Finally, the Copyright Office weighed in on whether revisions are needed to existing copyright law to deal with AI. They say no. Are…
Links for Week of January 10, 2025
This week, Professor Goldman posted his 2024 Internet Law Year in Review. Always a good read. As of January 1, 2025, some additional Mickey Mouse short films have entered the public domain, along with plenty of other company. Finally, Meta announced that it is ending its third party fact checking program. Internet Law Year In…
Links for Week of December 27, 2024
Happy Holidays! Be careful out there – scammers can hack Google Forms to send official looking emails from Google.com, so merely looking at just the domain of where the phishing email is coming from is not always enough. This person lost a lot of cryptocurrency. Techdirt had a nice post on the victory by the…
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 November 15, 2024
This week, I liked Cathy Gellis’ new article on the government censorship inherent in the DMCA as it is currently written. A recent 5th Circuit decision on copyright damages is being requested for rehearing en banc over whether the statutory damages should have been assessed per song, as opposed to per album. Finally, I liked…
Links for Week of October 25, 2024
This week, I liked Professor Goldman’s post about competitive keyword advertising in the 9th Circuit. The proprietor of an AI chatbot is being sued for allegedly causing the suicide of a teenager. Finally, I liked an article over Tesla and Warner Bros. being sued for unauthorized use of imagery from Blade Runner 2049, owned by…