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Court dismisses company executive’s name and likeness lawsuit over YouTube videos
September 12, 2022 - Strouse was the president and CEO of a company but departed with the company was sold. He did not approve of how the new company . . .
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Can a company snoop on its employee’s personal email account?
August 8, 2022 - Plaintiff was an administrative assistant at defendant company. When her supervisor got word that plaintiff had been asked to join a competing company started by . . .
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Federal Circuit holds AI not an inventor
August 7, 2022 - The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an inventor under the Patent . . .
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Section 230 immunity did not protect Omegle in product liability lawsuit
July 17, 2022 - When plaintiff was 11 years old, she was connected to a man in his late thirties using Omegle (a "free online chat room that randomly . . .
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Is it unlawful to access someone else’s Google Drive content that is not password protected?
June 18, 2022 - Plaintiff set up a Google Drive so that he could collect photos and other content related to a local school board controversy. He thought it . . .
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Company president may be liable for vicarious copyright infringement
June 11, 2022 - Plaintiff sued a company and its president for copyright infringement, over some photos that the company published online. The individual defendant moved to dismiss the . . .
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Can a person be liable for retweeting a defamatory tweet?
May 12, 2022 - Under traditional principles of defamation law, one can be liable for repeating a defamatory statement to others. Does the same principle apply, however, on social . . .
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Restraining order issued against domain name seller who refused to transfer
April 25, 2022 - Defendant listed a domain name for sale using DomainAgents. After a couple rounds of negotiation, plaintiff accepted defendant's counteroffer to sell the domain name. But when the time came . . .