Digital Review
A monthly round-up of legal tech news from MLRC deputy director Jeff Hermes.
Digital Review June-July 2024
The Supreme Court decides Murthy, Moody, and more, and takes an age-gating case | Briefing heats up in the TikTok case | KOSA is dead for now | The NO FAKES Act gains support from Hollywood studios | Copyright battles over AI continue | Justice Thomas comments on Section 230 yet again | Net neutrality…
Digital Review May 2024
The Supreme Court decides NRA v. Vullo, Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy, and Coinbase v. Suski | TikTok challenges the national ban | RFK Jr.’s legal team keeps busy | REPORT, KOSA, KOSMA, COPPA 2.0 and other child safety laws advance | ScarJo and OpenAI | Scraping law & copyright preemption | Monetary judgments in…
Digital Review April 2024
President Biden signs the “TikTok ban,” and a national data privacy bill is introduced | The Supreme Court denies a stay of the Fifth Circuit’s age gating decision, and denies cert regarding Elon Musk’s “Twitter sitter” | The Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony on the NO FAKES Act, as generative AI continues to drive lawsuits…
Digital Review February & March 2024
The Supreme Court decides Lindke and hears NetChoice and Murthy | The House passes a TikTok bill | The Fifth Circuit looses Ken Paxton on adult websites | X’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate is SLAPPed down | The DOJ launches its big antitrust lawsuit against Apple | Yes, but is it…
Digital Review January 2024
Everyone takes aim at AI-powered deepfakes | The FTC cracks down on data brokers | Tech CEOs visit Capitol Hill | The Second Circuit sets the Wayback Machine (no, not that one) to 1805 | The Ninth Circuit, agency principles, and Section 230 | The states and their amici weigh in on NetChoice | New…
Digital Review September 2023
The Supreme Court takes the NetChoice cases, but not on every issue | The Fifth Circuit plays take-backsies with Missouri v. Biden | Federal courts hash out state online child protection laws | Lots of photo copyright cases | Sanctions for a SAD scheme | Ye files a puzzling lawsuit over music tracks leaked on…
Digital Review August 2023
The Solicitor General weighs in on the NetChoice content moderation cases and on politicians blocking social media critics | The RNC’s email spam case against Google runs aground | Illinois has a new anti-doxxing law | Arkansas and Texas age-gating laws are enjoined | A lockdown-era zombie joke about COVID gets First Amendment protection |…
Digital Review August 2022
Monthly tech round-up from MLRC deputy director Jeff Hermes. In this issue: a trio of California tech bills, AI and patents, political spam, two anti-SLAPP wins in the 9th Circuit, and more.
Digital Review June – July 2022
The fall of Roe, digital privacy, and online discussion of abortion | The First Amendment and anonymous copyright infringement | Déjà vu with TikTok back in the spotlight | A wave of “social media addiction” cases hits | Is a long and complex URL enough for Van Buren’s gates to be down? | The Copyright…
Digital Review May 2022
Tasseography with the Supreme Court in NetChoice | The Ninth Circuit doubles down in hiQ | More consequences for Richard Liebowitz | SOPA/PIPA-style takedown orders against pirate sites | Lissajous curves and lemniscates | Getting meta with patent law: Does a “buffer” include a “cache”? | The short life of the Disinformation Governance Board |…