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Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Part 3 – Section 230: 27 Years Old And Still In The Spotlight

In the prior two installments of our six-part series examining Section 230, the section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes online service providers from liability stemming from the publication and...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Part 2(A) – Section 230: 27 Years Old And Still In The Spotlight

In this second installment of our six-part series examining Section 230, the section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes online service providers from liability stemming from the publication and...more

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GoDaddy Obtains Section 230 Immunity Despite Plaintiffs’ “Sympathetic” Claims

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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) provides immunity to “interactive computer services” providers against certain types of legal claims, such as when harmful material is posted on their site by third...more

Saiber LLC

District of New Jersey Recognizes Good Cause for ISP to Provide Identity of Alleged Infringer Through Expedited Discovery, But...

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In a recent opinion, Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. John Doe Subscriber (D.N.J. Oct. 6, 2021), the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey considered when a plaintiff may be granted leave to serve pre-Rule...more

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EDNY Refuses To Dismiss on § 230 Grounds In “Shitty Media Men” Defamation Case

In Elliott v. Donegan, a federal district court in New York held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not warrant the dismissal of a defamation claim where the plaintiff’s complaint did not “foreclose[] the...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Google’s servers housed by a third-party ISP qualify as a regular and established place of business to establish proper venue in...

In our continued post-TC Heartland coverage, Judge Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas recently held that venue was proper because Google exercises exclusive control over physical servers implicated by the litigation,...more

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'Zeran v. AOL': The Anti-Circumvention Tool

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If I were an expert survivalist who was offered one tool to survive alone in the elements, I would probably choose a fire starter … but maybe a knife, a pot, or duct tape. Really, I would want all of those items because no...more

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Anonymous Poster of Defamation Unmasked

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Anonymity on the Internet has encouraged some to feel they live in a culture that feels no responsibility for what might be posted and where there may be no consequences for what one posts. That is, however, not the case as...more

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UK, US, HK and China – Access denied: an international perspective on ISP blocking injunctions

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While the UK Court of Appeal has opened the door for broadband ISP blocking to combat trademark or copyright-infringing activities, the picture in the United States, China and Hong Kong is more complex. ...more

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FCC Proposes Sweeping Broadband Privacy Rules

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Broadband Internet access service providers would face a new, top-to-bottom consumer privacy regime. Twelve months after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed common-carrier telecommunications rules on...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Establishing the Boundaries of the OCILLA Safe Harbor

As user-generated content explodes over the Internet, intellectual property disputes over posting or uploading such content without the owner’s consent continue to escalate. As we touched on in a recent post, social media...more

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China Takes Further Steps to Strengthen the Protection of Personal Information

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Recent provisions issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology underscore the country’s increased emphasis on the protection of telecommunications and internet users’ personal information....more

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