1. Right of Publicity

    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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  2. EmploymentPrivacy

    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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  3. Artificial Intelligence

    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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  4. Section 230

    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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  5. Computer Crime

    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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  6. Copyright

    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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  7. DefamationSection 230

    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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  8. ContractsCybersquatting

    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 . . .

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