A Canadian court has approved a class action lawsuit against the creators of Fortnite, Epic Games. We first reported that the Canadian law firm was preparing a class action lawsuit against Epic Games in 2019. It accused the developer of “knowingly” creating the “very, very addictive game” Fortnite, but was in the dark. limbo since …
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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Federal regulators will push to block Meta from acquiring a virtual reality studio starting Thursday in a San Jose courtroom. Why is this important: The lawsuit will mark the first high-level public test of the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts under Chairman Lina Khan to expand the principles of antitrust law in ways …
President Biden’s antitrust regulators have adopted a mantra: to win, they must be prepared to lose. Since Mr. Biden took office in January 2021, leaders of the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department’s antitrust division have brought risky cases that use new legal arguments to stop corporate mergers and favor competition. Their goal is …
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On November 4the Court of Milan upheld its first instance PI decision ordering Cloudyan American company that provides DNS (Domain Name System) services, among other things, to block the DNS resolution of several torrent sites (and their pseudonyms) who infringed the copyrights of Sony, Universal and Warner by unlawfully making music available to the public. …
The High Court of Australia has rejected a request for special permission from a patent applicant who filed an Australian patent application naming an artificial intelligence (AI) system as the inventor. The High Court’s ruling means that the dominant position in Australia – that a patent application cannot identify a non-human inventor – stands. This …
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The Supreme Court granted certiorari in González c. Google, a high-stakes case appealed by the Ninth Circuit over the scope of protection Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives tech companies full liability for content on their platforms. The case could fundamentally change the modern landscape of the Internet and online discourse. At issue …
This month, the Supreme Court marked a turning point in Internet history. The court agreed to hear Gonzalez v. Google, his first case interpreting Section 230 – a once arcane law that is now widely credited with “creating the internet” and is being debated by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Section 230 states …
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This month, the Supreme Court marked a turning point in Internet history. The court agreed to hear Gonzalez v. Google, his first case interpreting Section 230 – a once arcane law that is now widely credited with “creating the internet” and is being debated by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Section 230 states …
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What if YouTube stopped making recommendations? What if a state representative in Texas or Florida asked Instagram not to remove misinformation about vaccines that violated the app’s rules? Or if TikTok redoes its “For You” tab so that content moderators need to approve videos before they appear? The Supreme Court this week opened the door …
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