On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary...
LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn...
Erik Olson and Stephanie Skaff discuss "Platform Ecosystems: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Other Scraping Law Developments." Web...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed its prior decision, holding that LinkedIn could not block hiQ, a scraping...
Depending on what you read or who you talk to, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230) (CDA) is either a tool of...
Eugene Mar and Erik Olson discuss "SCOTUS Copyright Fair Use Decision: Google vs. Oracle Recap and Takeaways." After more than a decade...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some businesses are considering potential liquidation or restructuring through bankruptcy. Companies in...
Earlier this year, a number of individuals brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington...
During these particularly trying times resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses of all sizes have been concerned about the...
During periods of widespread economic disruption such as the present, operating businesses must be able to identify and respond to...
A wide variety of business and consumer platforms host mutually beneficial ecosystems. But these ecosystems are also fraught with...
While we’re far from returning to the “normal” that predated the COVID-19 pandemic, states have begun to relax lockdown requirements and...
A few weeks ago on this blog, we addressed some of the legal issues that have arisen for Zoom, as it becomes a significant part of...
As privacy-related litigation continues to heat up, Judge Beth Freeman (ND Cal.) recently laid out in In re Google Assistant Privacy...
As school districts increasingly rely on Zoom to facilitate online classes, and in many cases are expressly directing students to...
As large portions of society become subject to coronavirus-related quarantines, increasing numbers of people have turned to web-based...