Digital Review
A monthly round-up of legal tech news from MLRC deputy director Jeff Hermes.
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
In this issue: 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…
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 |…
Digital Review March – April 2022
The Cyberwar in Ukraine | Elon Musk & Twitter | Justice Thomas on Section 230 (yet again) | The 9th Circuit on hiQ v. LinkedIn after remand | Europe, the DSA and the DMA | and so, so much more…
Digital Review February 2022
Ukraine, Russia, and the information war | The Supreme Court on mistakes in copyright registration | Ken Paxton is at it again. And again. And again. | Instagram fights off an embedding lawsuit | No trademark registration for ".SUCKS," but not for the reason you might expect | Edible Arrangements tastes defeat | Updates on…
Digital Review December 2021 – January 2022
Justice Breyer's First Amendment & copyright decisions | Indiana's revenge porn law survives strict scrutiny | So many federal bills...so many First Amendment issues | Pegasus problems persist, proving pervasive | Copyright transfer as a remedy in non-copyright cases | Texas' content moderation law is enjoined | The Fifth Circuit questions Zippo | Plenty of…