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Court Greenlights Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Unmasking of Online Critic–In re DMCA Subpoena to Cloudflare
Published: July 23, 2026 16:26
The Jehovah’s Witnesses (the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania) sought to unmask a Doe who uploaded an archive of religious texts, along with some associated linguistic parsing tools, to a website (https://jws-library.one). [That URL now…
Federal Circuit Rebuffs SAD Scheme Plaintiff–Shenzhen Jisu v. Annex A Defendants
Published: July 22, 2026 18:33
Nomenclature note: This is an Annex A case, not a Schedule A case, but they are the same thing. Snarky note about design patents: This is a design patent case. I don’t mean any disrespect towards design patent aficionados, but... The post Federal Circuit…
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased–Amy v. Apple
Published: July 20, 2026 22:21
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple…
Court Upholds Instagram’s TOS–Feds for Freedom v. Meta
Published: July 18, 2026 23:37
Feds for Freedom is an anti-COVID vax organization. 🙄 It registered an Instagram account. F4F is upset that Instagram allegedly warned anyone who tried to repost their content that: This account has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed…
eBay Defeats Contributory Copyright Claim–Lee v. SBS
Published: July 11, 2026 18:01
Lee is enforcing music copyrights against karaoke machine makers that allegedly include copyrighted songs. He sent numerous NOCIs to eBay targeting the machines. eBay apparently honored the NOCIs. However, Lee really wanted staydowns, which eBay did not…
Large Roundup of Section 230 Rulings
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/large-roundup-of-section-230-rulings.htm
Published: July 9, 2026 15:11
This blog post rounds up nearly 20 Section 230 cases (and adjacent cases), mostly from the past four months, that for whatever reason I didn’t cover in a standalone blog post. Section 230’s effects are waning overall, but this post... The post Large…
YouTube Exits Copyright Lawsuit Over YouTubers’ Videos–Barnes v. Sanchez
Published: July 5, 2026 15:11
This is a copyright infringement lawsuit among pro se litigants. The dispute sideswipes YouTube, but YouTube is able to exit on a motion to dismiss. The plaintiff claims a copyright in a book, Drug Lords of Oakland. The defendants operate... The post…
Court Rebuffs Emojico’s SAD Scheme TRO Request
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/court-rebuffs-emojicos-sad-scheme-tro-request.htm
Published: July 1, 2026 15:36
This is a very recent Emojico SAD Scheme enforcement (filed last week). I’ve blogged a few Emojico cases before (see the link list below). Indeed, my interest in the SAD Scheme started with an Emojico case, so I pay a... The post Court Rebuffs Emojico’s…
Cloudflare Defeats Lawsuit Over Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery (NCII) on Facebook–Doe v. Cloudflare
Published: June 28, 2026 14:51
This is a putative class action lawsuit. The named plaintiff provided intimate images to her then-fiance, who (after the breakup) created fake Facebook profiles of the plaintiff and uploaded her intimate images without consent (turning the images into…
Private Facebook Group Can Exclude Member–Khan v. ILONCA
Published: June 27, 2026 17:47
The plaintiffs are a husband-wife couple, Khan and Abdulhamid. They are both Muslim and ethnically Middle Eastern. The plaintiffs bought a house in the Island Lake of Novi residential community in suburban Detroit. Halmaghi was the seller’s listing agent.…
Scammy Ad Lawsuits Keep Vexing the Courts–Huckabee v. Meta
Published: June 24, 2026 14:40
Scammers used Mike Huckabee’s name and image to hawk CBD products in Facebook ads. I’m not in the ad’s target audience, so it blows my mind that anyone would buy anything because Huckabee touted it (or was falsely claimed to).... The post Scammy Ad…
Blogger Defeats Photographer’s Copyright Claim–Sokolskyfilm v. Messiah
Published: June 21, 2026 17:49
I’m blogging this case only because it’s one of those “what are we even doing here?” lawsuits. Cases like this belong in the CCB or, better yet, should not be brought at all! * * * The case involves a... The post Blogger Defeats Photographer’s Copyright…