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Hinckley Allen

Real Estate Ownership and Digital Media Rights in the Age of Extended Reality Technology

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Extended reality is a broad term used to describe immersive technologies, which are software and applications that create immersive environments that merge computer-generated, digital content with the actual contours of our...more

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Meta "Holds No Monopoly" And Defeats FTC Antitrust Lawsuit

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On November 18, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered judgment for Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”), denying the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) request for a permanent injunction,...more

Knobbe Martens

AI, Gaming, and the Metaverse Collide: The Next Wave of Trademark Infringement in Virtual Worlds

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Over the last six months, the convergence of artificial intelligence, gaming, and the metaverse has produced a flood of innovation that is redefining brand engagement and generating a new surge of legal disputes....more

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Investing In Video Games with William Kerr, Managing Partner, Kerr LLP

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In this episode of "Lawyers With Game," host Darius Gambino from Saul Ewing's Video Gaming & Esports Practice sits down with William Kerr, Managing Partner of Kerr LLP. Bill shares some of his experiences closing investment...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Flo Health Data-Sharing Case Ends in Major Jury Verdict Against Meta

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Meta Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been found liable by a California federal jury for improperly using sensitive reproductive health data to run targeted ads, in a case involving the...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Warnings, Watch Time, and Ghosts in the Feed

YouTube TV is thriving, and its rivals want a piece of the action. Recently, media ratings giant Nielsen confirmed that YouTube is now not only the most-watched streaming service in the United States, but also the...more

Mogin Law LLP

Big Tech’s Decade of A.I. Shopping - updated 7.18.25

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Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

NYC ‘Subway Surfing’ Case Survives Summary Judgment

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On June 30, 2025, the Honorable Paul Goetz of the New York Supreme Court held that plaintiff Norma Nazario’s lawsuit for the death of her son in a 2023 “subway surfing” incident could proceed against social media companies...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Court Sets New Limits on Use of Copyrighted Materials to Train AI Models

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a pressing legal debate over how copyrighted materials can be used to train generative AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), without permission...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: Clickbait, Court Dates, and the Beige Apocalypse

This odyssey began when an old laptop was discovered by a curious 14-year-old boy in Kansas. The boy, known only as “QR,” used it to sneak onto a handful of adult websites over two months last year, racking up 118 virtual...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

California limits certification, revealing challenges for litigating privacy cases

In the recent high-profile civil class action, Frasco v. Flo Health, a California federal court issued a significant ruling partially certifying a nationwide class and California subclass of individuals who used the Flo...more

A&O Shearman

The future of the robotics metaverse in the healthcare sector

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On 26 February 2025, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted an opinion addressing the integration of robotics and the metaverse in healthcare. This forward-looking document outlines the opportunities and...more

Carlton Fields

FINRA’s Blueprint for the Metaverse

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In October 2024, FINRA released its blueprint for the securities industry’s use of the metaverse — the metaverse report. The metaverse, often framed as “the next evolution of today’s internet,” is a loosely defined term used...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

$Trump, Crypto Stockpile, SAB 121, DeepSeek, Tornado Cash + More

In this episode of Block and Order, Kyle Lawrence and Moish Peltz dive into the legal drama surrounding President Trump’s meme coin and other crypto-focused executive orders. They also explore DeepSeek AI’s effect on the...more

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Meta’s New Advertising Rules: Key Considerations for Health and Wellness Businesses

Advertising on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram is a common marketing strategy for many businesses. Government agencies and consumer advocates have increasingly scrutinized this practice to determine if...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

What in the [Meta]World?: Abitron Creates More Questions than Answers

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At a glance, a unanimous Supreme Court, holding that two provisions of the trademark-governing Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1114(1)(a) and 1125(a)(1)) do not apply extraterritorially and extend only to alleged infringement in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: If the Suit Fits

Character Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for...more

A&O Shearman

Federal Circuit Affirms Non-Infringement At Summary Judgment On “Document Stream” Patents In Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC v....

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Mirror Worlds Technologies, LLC ("Mirror Worlds") owns U.S. Patent Nos. 6,006,227; 7,865,538; and 8,255,439, which claim methods for storing, organizing, and presenting data in time-ordered streams on a computer system. In...more

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United States Supreme Court Dismisses As “Improvidently Granted” A Putative Securities Class Action Against Meta For Alleged...

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On November 22, 2024, the United States Supreme Court dismissed Meta’s appeal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s decision to partially reinstate a putative class action asserting claims under the...more

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FINRA Facts and Trends: November 2024

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Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This month,...more

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ANA Children’s Advertising and Privacy Roundup

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The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) held its annual Masters of Advertising Law Conference November 11-13 in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona, and wow, children’s advertising and privacy was a hot-button topic at the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FINRA Sets Up Shop in the Metaverse

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On October 24, 2024, the Office of Financial Innovation (OFI) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) published “The Metaverse and the Implications for the Securities Industry” (the Report)....more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - November 2024

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Integrations Connect Crypto and Fiat Financial Products - This week saw the announcement of three cryptocurrency payments partnerships. In a recent press release, a major U.S. financial services company announced a...more

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Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly; Highlights of the Last Two Weeks in Web3 Law: October 31, 2024

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It’s fitting that our second October Web3 legal update arrives on Halloween, as many in the industry might find the current legal landscape for digital asset products and services quite spooky. While the past few weeks have...more

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