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Can influencer executives claim company trademarks as their own?
Virogex sued ResolvX and ResolvX's founder Leonidov for trademark infringement and false advertising following a bitter split between Virogex and Leonidov, who had served as . . .
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Negotiating technology and AI agreements: “We have all been here before”
When it comes to AI issues in technology contracts, both vendors and customers are tending to over-negotiate because the frameworks for understanding and allocating risk . . .
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Court dismisses First Amendment suit over city supervisor’s X account and account suspension
A federal court in California dismissed a pro se attorney's Section 1983 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, a San Francisco supervisor, . . .
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Ninth Circuit shuts down Section 230 argument that would have provided an end-run around immunity
Two members of the Rohingya community, a persecuted ethnic minority in Myanmar, sued Meta in California federal court, alleging that Facebook's algorithmic design amplified anti-Rohingya . . .
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Embedding video may not be copyright fair use
Plaintiff, a professional videographer, sued defendant, an operator of an online hip-hop news publication, for copyright infringement. Plaintiff had recorded two videos: a short clip . . .
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Keyword advertising as trademark infringement: court declines to rule it out
A Washington psychiatrist sued a competing nurse practitioner and her clinic for trademark infringement and misappropriation of his name and identity. Plaintiff David Penner, owner . . .
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AI model training case raising DMCA anticircumvention issues moves forward
Plaintiff record companies sued defendant Udio, an AI music generation platform that allows users to create songs from text prompts and audio inputs. Plaintiffs alleged . . .
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Social media addiction claims against Meta not barred by Section 230
Since the mid-90s, Section 230 (47 U.S.C. §230) has functioned as a kind of legal safety net for internet platforms, shielding them from lawsuits and . . .
