internetcases – Technology law since 2005

Anthropic challenged a Department of War decision excluding the company and its Claude artificial intelligence models from the Department’s supply chain after Anthropic refused to permit Claude to be used for all lawful military purposes.

Lawyer Stefan Passantino sued former federal prosecutor and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann for defamation over a post Weissmann made on X.

Here is what the proposed federal Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R. 9915 prohibits: A person may not (1) deploy, direct, or cause to be deployed, a stealth bot to access a website, digital platform, or online service in a manner that is reasonably likely…

The secrets of building a great vacuum tube did not have to leak for their value to wane when transistors arrived.

The next portability fight will be about knowledge Perhaps the strangest intellectual property question to arise in the past few years with AI is not who owns something.

Negotiating how a technology vendor uses customer data brings up not only privacy and data processing concerns but also confidentiality and trade secrets, in a rather abstract way.

A split decision is unusual in UDRP cases, which makes a recent decision involving the domain name <quobly.com> particularly noteworthy.

The White House recently removed an online game called “Build the Wall” after The Tetris Company publicly objected to the game and raised copyright concerns.

Even in cases decided thirty years apart, there remains a necessary volitional nexus between human conduct and machine action for there to be liability.

Plaintiff Reddit sued defendants SerpApi and Perplexity AI over alleged efforts to bypass technological measures restricting automated access to Reddit-related content appearing in Google search results.

Jane Doe and three other women sued defendant xAI alleging that the company’s Grok chatbot generated non-consensual nude and sexually explicit images of them.

Plaintiff Lichfield sued defendants Kubler and Netflix for defamation after Kubler released a three-part Netflix documentary about her experience at a troubled-teen boarding school.

Plaintiff sued defendant for trademark infringement after defendant terminated a manufacturing agreement and began selling inflatable paint booths that allegedly copied plaintiff’s distinctive design.

Plaintiff sued the operator of the online adult-products retailer Adam & Eve, claiming the company violated Pennsylvania’s wiretapping law by allowing Google Analytics to track his shopping behavior without adequate consent.

Obama-appointed Chief Judge James Boasberg has blocked a Trump administration visa policy aimed at noncitizens deeply embedded in the content moderation, fact-checking, and Big Tech advocacy ecosystem.

Plaintiff, a TikTok creator with roughly one million followers, makes his living livestreaming on the platform.

Plaintiff NetChoice, a trade association whose members operate many of the largest social media platforms, sued defendant Yost in his capacity as Ohio’s Attorney General.