Socially Aware

November 13, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, First Amendment, Fraud, FTC, Online Reviews, Privacy, Social Media Policy
Social Links: Age Verification, X Appeal, and the Great White North
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
CHALLENGE TO TEXAS AGE-VERIFICATION LAW RETURNED TO LOWER COURT The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sent a challenge to Texas’s controversial online age verification law back to district court for additional clarification, while leaving the lower court’s injunction blocking the
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October 07, 2024 - Arbitration, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, First Amendment, Privacy, Protected Speech, Social Media Policy
Social Links: Going Back to Cali
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
Newsom Vetoes AI Bill California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB-1047. The controversial bill was intended to establish safety guidelines for artificial intelligence models and would have been the first significant piece of state AI legislation in the country. Though it had many high-profile
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September 24, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, European Union, First Amendment, Fraud, Social Media Policy, Trademark
Social Links: TikTok Trademarks, Social Signposts, and Robot Rock
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
Sick of the “ very demure, very mindful ” social media trend yet? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office probably is too. Our national nightmare began on August 5 when TikToker Jools LeBron uploaded a video of herself pontificating about the way she dresses
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September 10, 2024 - Arbitration, Copyright, IP, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Social Media Policy, Terms of Use
Social Links: Tinder, TikTok, and the Copacabana
Double-check before swiping right. Ubiquitous dating app Tinder scored a court victory when the U.S. District Court in New Jersey ruled in Ciapinska v. Tinder that the arbitration clause in the app’s terms of use (TOU) is binding. At the center of the suit
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August 23, 2024 - Copyright, Defamation, E-Commerce, Fraud, FTC, Online Reviews, Privacy, Social Media Policy, Trademark, Web Scraping
Social Links: Recent Developments in the Law and Business of Social Media
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a new rule aimed at curtailing false, misleading, and otherwise fraudulent reviews on online retail sites. Fake reviews are a significant problem for the big e-commerce platforms, given that a robust customer review system is crucial to modern
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August 05, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, First Amendment, Fraud, FTC, IP, Privacy, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Social Media Policy
Social Links: July 2024
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
In a rare example of bipartisan agreement, the dramatically named DEFIANCE (Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits) Act unanimously passed the Senate. The bill allows victims of AI-generated deepfake pornography to sue anyone who knowingly creates, receives, or distributes such images. It only
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July 23, 2024 - Free Speech, Social Media Policy, Privacy
State Social Media Laws Targeted at Teens Face Opposition
By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris
A few months ago, we highlighted the many pending and enacted state-level social media laws targeting minors’ use of social media. Since then, political and industry groups have begun to push back, calling into question whether these types of social media laws will ultimately
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June 04, 2024 - Contracts, Copyright, Fair Use, Social Media Policy, Terms of Use, User-Generated Content, Web Scraping
California Federal Court Holds X’s Claims Against Scraper Preempted by Federal Law
By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Aaron P. Rubin
On May 9, 2024, in X Corp. v. Bright Data Ltd. , the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed X’s claims alleging that Bright Data’s access to X’s systems, and scraping and selling of publicly available data from X’s platform,
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May 23, 2024 - Defamation, IP, Right of Publicity, Section 230 Safe Harbor, Social Media Policy
Part 4 – Section 230: 27 Years Old and Still in the Spotlight
By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin
Section 230: 27 Years Old and Still in the Spotlight In our fourth installment of our six-part series examining Section 230—the segment of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) that immunizes online service providers from liability stemming from content created by third parties—we’ll examine
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May 20, 2024 - Advertising, Data Security, Privacy, Social Media Policy
State Lawmakers Introduce Laws Governing Teen Use of Social Media
By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris
In case you haven’t noticed, state legislatures have been hard at work drafting, passing, and trying to pass laws that govern minors’ use of social media. Several states have passed laws requiring social media companies to implement certain policies, including age verification and parental
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Topic Archives: Social Media Policy

Social Links: Age Verification, X Appeal, and the Great White North

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Going Back to Cali

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: TikTok Trademarks, Social Signposts, and Robot Rock

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: Tinder, TikTok, and the Copacabana

Social Links: Recent Developments in the Law and Business of Social Media

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

Social Links: July 2024

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

State Social Media Laws Targeted at Teens Face Opposition

By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris

California Federal Court Holds X’s Claims Against Scraper Preempted by Federal Law

By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Aaron P. Rubin

Part 4 – Section 230: 27 Years Old and Still in the Spotlight

By: Lawrence W. Gallick, Anthony M. Ramirez and Aaron P. Rubin

State Lawmakers Introduce Laws Governing Teen Use of Social Media

By: Lawrence W. Gallick and Lindsay B. Harris