Posts tagged with "twitter"

  1. Artificial IntelligenceBlockchain

    X can claim trespass to chattel in data scraping case

    December 1, 2024 - X Corp. sued Bright Data Ltd. for unauthorized access to X's servers and the scraping and resale of data from X’s platform. Plaintiff sought the . . .

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  2. First AmendmentSocial Media

    X gets Ninth Circuit win in case over California’s content moderation law

    September 5, 2024 - X sued the California attorney general, challenging Assembly Bill 587 (AB 587) - a law that required large social media companies to submit semiannual reports . . .

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  3. CopyrightDMCA

    X avoids much of music industry copyright lawsuit

    March 12, 2024 - Plaintiffs sued X for copyright infringement arising from X’s users uploading tweets that contained copyright-protected music. Plaintiffs accused X of “trying to generate the kind . . .

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  4. First AmendmentSocial Media

    Required content moderation reporting does not violate X’s First Amendment rights

    January 1, 2024 - A federal court in California has upheld the constitutionality of the state's Assembly Bill 587 (AB 587), which mandates social media companies to submit to . . .

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  5. Trademarks

    When X makes it an ex-brand: Can a company retain rights in an old trademark after rebranding?

    July 24, 2023 - This past weekend Elon Musk announced plans to rebrand Twitter as X. This strategic shift from one of the most recognized names and logos in the social . . .

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  6. Contracts

    Why are API access agreements important?

    January 19, 2023 - Twitter has been in the news lately for what some seem to imply has been a problematic termination of third-party developers from its platform. This . . .

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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. DefamationSection 230

    Section 230 immunity protected Twitter from claims it aided and abetted defamation

    September 22, 2020 - Twitter enjoyed Section 230 immunity for aiding and abetting defamation because plaintiffs' claims on that point did not transform Twitter into a party that created . . .

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  9. Section 230

    Executive order to clarify Section 230: a summary

    May 28, 2020 -

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  10. Section 230

    Section 230 protected Twitter from liability for deleting Senate candidate’s accounts

    June 12, 2019 -

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