12/20/2022 2:35:42 PM Yuga Labs wins key victory in NFT infringement case against Ryder Ripps By Jeremy Goldman On December 16, 2022, the United District Court for the Central District of California handed NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs a decisive victory...
12/19/2022 7:04:18 PM Supreme Court May Weigh in on Third-Party Content Scraping Case By Saphya Council Since our last update in the ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC case, Genius filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S....
11/22/2022 8:16:10 PM On Remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Affirms Validity of an Inaccurate Copyright Registration By Glenda Dieuveille The Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of Unicolors, Inc., finding that the company has a valid copyright registration despite a mistake in...
11/22/2022 7:55:28 PM Hold On, We’re Going…Vogue…Or Not By Khasim Lockhart Intro. Do you have a music album on the way? Have you come up with a plan to promote said album? Perhaps you considered releasing a...
11/18/2022 1:39:49 AM ICYDK: Music NFTs Also Generate Royalties By Saphya Council The newest case against American DJ 3LAU is very timely, with “music NFTs” becoming a growing trend in the music industry. “Music NFTs”...
11/3/2022 7:32:32 PM New York Post-Mortem Right of Publicity Update: Here is a List of the Registered Dead People By Edward H. Rosenthal For many years, there was a lively debate in New York as to whether the state should extend protection for an individual's right of...
11/3/2022 6:13:56 PM Case Update: NFT “Insider Trading” Case Allowed to Proceed Against Former OpenSea Employee By Zach Lewis Jeremy Goldman On October 21, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order denying a former OpenSea...
11/1/2022 3:53:54 PM (Another!) Litigation From The World of Chess By Edward H. Rosenthal This post is about the recently filed defamation case brought by a 19-year old American chess player named Hans Moke Niemann against...
10/27/2022 2:24:47 PM Drizly and CEO Face FTC Order for Cybersecurity Breach By Saphya Council Rick Borden Recently, the FTC issued a proposed order against Drizly and its CEO James Cory Rellas for conducting unfair information security...
10/26/2022 1:37:58 PM Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of sex trafficking claims against Reddit, holding that FOSTA exception did not preclude CDA 230 immunity By Jeremy Goldman On October 24, 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a putative class action against Reddit that sought to...
10/20/2022 8:53:37 PM A Tale of Two Truck Simulator Games and the First Amendment By Frances Jensen Emma Smizer An ongoing dispute between Saber Interactive and Oovee Ltd. is the latest involving real-world vehicles in games. On October 6, 2022,...
10/10/2022 1:34:50 PM Judge Finds Virginia Obscenity Statute Unconstitutional and Dismisses Attempt to Have Two Books Declared Obscene By Nicole Bergstrom Molly Rothschild This essay first appeared in the Media Law Resource Center’s MediaLawLetter. On August 30, a Virginia judge found Virginia’s obscenity...
10/3/2022 5:40:29 PM Platforms Including Apple Make Moves in the NFT Space By Zach Lewis Apple has become the latest platform to embrace non-fungible tokens. As of September 2022, Apple, one of the largest tech companies in...
9/28/2022 7:24:05 PM Leaking Confidential Information: When are Streamers and Influencers at Risk? By Emma Smizer Dorian Thomas Streamers and influencers in the interactive entertainment world occasionally receive information about brand campaigns or videogames,...
9/26/2022 2:21:18 PM California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act: Game Over for Advertising to Children? By Emma Smizer Greg Boyd A new California law is changing the rules governing advertising to children. The Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“AADC”), signed into...
9/12/2022 8:50:15 PM Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act May Not Bar “Revenue-Based” Theories of Liability By Michael Ling Recently, a California federal court held that Apple, Google, and Facebook (the “Platforms”), operating as application distribution...