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Insights on technology and intellectual property law - AI, copyright, trademarks, and other interesting things by attorney Evan Brown

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OnlyFans “chatter” fraud case moves forward internetcases.com/2026/06/03…

OnlyFans “chatter” fraud case survives in part

Plaintiffs were OnlyFans subscribers who paid to communicate directly with content creators on the platform. They sued OnlyFans operator Fenix International and a collection of talent management a

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Domain name registrar ordered to help Microsoft disrupt cybercrime activities internetcases.com/2026/05/26…

Microsoft secures court order disrupting malware code-signing operation

Relief included order directing domain name registrar to bar access to offending domain name.Microsoft sued four John Doe defendants, alleging they ran a sophisticated criminal enterprise buil

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When it comes to AI issues in technology contracts, both vendors and customers are tending to over-negotiate because the frameworks for understanding and allocating risk are still developing. internetcases.com/2026/05/14…

Negotiating technology and AI agreements: “We have all been here before”

When it comes to AI issues in technology contracts, both vendors and customers are tending to over-negotiate because the frameworks for understanding and allocating risk are still developing.“

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Judge rejects claim that city supervisor's X blocking violated First Amendment internetcases.com/2026/05/13…

Court dismisses First Amendment suit over city supervisor’s X account and account suspension

A federal court in California dismissed a pro se attorney's Section 1983 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, a San Francisco supervisor, and X Corp., holding that the supervisor's

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Can a party get around Section 230 immunity by saying foreign law applies? Ninth Circuit says not this time. internetcases.com/2026/04/29…

Ninth Circuit shuts down Section 230 argument that would have provided an end-run around immunity

Two members of the Rohingya community, a persecuted ethnic minority in Myanmar, sued Meta in California federal court, alleging that Facebook's algorithmic design amplified anti-Rohingya hate spee

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Second Circuit makes big reversal on copyright fair use case involving video embedding. internetcases.com/2026/04/27…

Embedding video may not be copyright fair use

Plaintiff, a professional videographer, sued defendant, an operator of an online hip-hop news publication, for copyright infringement. Plaintiff had recorded two videos: a short clip of Michael Jo

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Keyword advertising and right of publicity case between local competitors heads to trial internetcases.com/2026/04/20…

Keyword advertising as trademark infringement: court declines to rule it out

A Washington psychiatrist sued a competing nurse practitioner and her clinic for trademark infringement and misappropriation of his name and identity. Plaintiff David Penner, owner of the Olympia

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AI model training case raising DMCA anticircumvention issues moves forward internetcases.com/2026/04/16…

AI model training case raising DMCA anticircumvention issues moves forward

Plaintiff record companies sued defendant Udio, an AI music generation platform that allows users to create songs from text prompts and audio inputs. Plaintiffs alleged violations of the Digital M

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Social media addiction claims against Meta not barred by Section 230 evan.law/2026/04/14/social-m…

Social media addiction claims against Meta not barred by Section 230

Since the mid-90s, Section 230 (47 U.S.C. §230) has functioned as a kind of legal safety net for internet platforms, shielding them from lawsuits and liability tied to user-generated content. Man

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Social media posts about divorce caused man to be found in contempt of court evan.law/2026/04/08/social-m…

Social media posts about divorce caused man to be found in contempt of court

The Court of Appeals of Wisconsin affirmed an order holding a husband in contempt for violating a family-court ban on social media posts about his divorce case and the parties' children.Petito

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No restraining order in domain name case involving Robinhood founder evan.law/2026/04/07/no-restr…

No restraining order in domain name dispute involving Robinhood founder

A federal court in California has denied emergency relief in a cybersquatting case involving Vlad Tenev, the co-founder of Robinhood, the popular investment platform. The United States District Co

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Teacher’s X repost was fair use and not copyright infringement evan.law/2026/04/06/teachers…

Teacher’s X repost was fair use and not copyright infringement

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed with prejudice all claims brought by plaintiff author Keith Bell against Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation a

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New Jersey court sends OKLegal suit against Meta to California evan.law/2026/04/01/new-jers…

New Jersey court sends OKLegal.com suit against Meta to California

The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey transferred OKLegal.com's lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg to the Northern District of California under Inst

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SDNY lets tortious interference claim proceed in browser extension case evan.law/2026/03/30/sdny-let…

SDNY lets tortious interference claim proceed in browser extension case

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York largely trimmed a content creators’ suit over alleged affiliate commission hijacking by a browser extension, but let the tortious in

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Section 230 did not help Mike Lindell's online media company avoid defamation liability evan.law/2026/03/28/colorado…

Colorado federal court upholds My Pillow founder defamation verdict

The United States District Court for the District of Colorado left a jury’s verdict intact by denying defendants’ bid for judgment as a matter of law and denying plaintiff’s request to incre

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Here's the bio of the Biden appointed judge that shut down the federal govt's crackdown on Anthropic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_F…

Rita F. Lin - Wikipedia

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Biden appointed judge in California blocks federal crackdown on Anthropic evan.law/2026/03/26/court-bl…

Court blocks federal crackdown on Anthropic

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Anthropic's motion for a preliminary injunction, finding it likely to succeed in challenging federal actions that b

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Oklahoma federal court keeps Paycom trademark, cybersquatting suit evan.law/2026/03/26/oklahoma…

Oklahoma federal court keeps Paycom trademark, cybersquatting suit

The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma refused to dismiss Paycom trademark and cybersquatting suit against Pay.com entities, finding that the case could proceed in O

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Supreme Court rejects contributory liability in long-running Cox copyright case evan.law/2026/03/25/supreme-…

Supreme Court rejects contributory liability in long-running Cox case

Plaintiffs sued Defendant for secondary copyright infringement, alleging that Defendant, an internet service provider, was liable because it continued to provide internet access to subscribers wh

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