Eric Goldman

A "But They're 'Counterfeiters'!" Argument Doesn't Clinch a SAD Scheme TRO-Emojico v. Schedule A Defendants - Technology & Marketing Law Blog I blog SAD Scheme cases when they catch my attention, not necessarily because they are the most consequential ones. I’m blogging this one mostly out of schadenfreude. Emojico–the company that has been...

Blog Post: A “But They’re ‘Counterfeiters’!” Argument Doesn’t Clinch a SAD Scheme TRO–Emojico v. Schedule A Defendants

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Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway. Teaching restrictions were removed from Senate Bill 37 after “relentless” lobbying, but board members and administrators have since enacted strikingly similar requirements.

"Censoring Courses Isn’t the Law in Texas. Public Universities Are Doing It Anyway"

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(Censorship laws rarely flatly ban speech. They routinely achieve their censorship through less direct or explicit means) 🤐

Jury awards Post University $75M in damages from CourseHero for 1202(a)/1202(b) violations for "modifying the class materials to add its name in banners, logos, watermarks, & notices" 👀

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The providers of the chatbot are the ones with the First Amendment rights. They're the ones being regulated.

I'm actually working on an article that argues that generative AI models are publications much like books / movies. Chatbots encode numerous human editorial decisions.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump on terrorist attacks in America: “Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.…

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children

Ninth Circuit Allows TOS Amendment by Email-Ireland-Gordy v. Tile - Technology & Marketing Law Blog [This is a non-precedential opinion, and the court unhelpfully cuts many factual and doctrinal corners.] The plaintiffs claim that bad actors misused Tile’s tracking devices to stalk them. The plainti...

Blog Post: Ninth Circuit Allows TOS Amendment by Email–Ireland-Gordy v. Tile blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That We’ve been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone’s age online, you have to collect personal data fr…

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Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.

Rubio To World: Stop Doing The Exact Same Thing The US Just Did The State Department wants US diplomats to fight data localization around the world. The policy position is correct. It’s just that the messenger has spent the last few months systematically …

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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.

NYT: "Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won"

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The surrending law firms: A&O Shearman, Cadwalader, Kirkland, Latham & Watkins, Milbank, Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher, Skadden, Willkie

I Was the Son of a Librarian - Goldman's Observations My mom, now deceased for over a decade, worked as a librarian in the 1970s and was a decades-long member of the American Library Association (ALA). That makes me one of the many thousands of Americans...

Blog Post: I Was the Son of a Librarian 📚

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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

I signed onto this letter, which does a good job helping taxonomize the many problems and unknowns associated with mandatory online age authentication

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

For more detail, see my full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Trump administration drops suits against law firms with ties to Democrats and other Trump foes | CNN Politics The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal govern...

"Trump administration drops suits against law firms with ties to Democrats and other Trump foes" 🌮 www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

The law firms that "settled" with Trump instead of fighting:
A&O Shearman, Cadwalader, Kirkland, Latham & Watkins, Milbank, Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher, Skadden, Willkie

Catching Up on Some Social Media Addiction Rulings - Technology & Marketing Law Blog The KGM bellwether trial is continuing in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, this post rounds up three related developments that are taking place outside the media spotlight. Snap, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial Distri...

Blog Post: Catching Up on Some Social Media Addiction Rulings

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Inside Texas A&M’s Scramble to Censor Its Curriculum Documents reveal widespread uncertainty, even among administrators, over what professors could teach.

No surprises here: Texas A&M's restrictions on DEI-related teaching led to widespread censorship (including pre-compliance/self-censorship)

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Costco Giant Chocolate Bunny ("Pete the Bunny")

Spotted at Costco Mountain View: 10 lb chocolate Easter bunny for $140 🍫🐰

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Eating instructions: smash with a mallet or saw with a warm bread knife

30 Exceptions for Section 230’s 30th Anniversary - Disruptive Competition Project This month marks 30 years of Section 230 of the Communications Act (47 U.S.C. § 230), a fundamental yet misunderstood Internet law.

"courts are regularly degrading Section 230’s protections...[this post recaps] 30 times Section 230 did not apply (many in the 9th Circuit) from case law and in the statute itself" 📉

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a woman wearing glasses and a pink shirt says " what like it 's hard " ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a pink shirt says " what like it 's hard "

"Design Patent Bar Plagued by Low Applicant Numbers Two Years In"

@design-law.bsky.social: “when you’re an art major, people don’t exactly encourage you to go to law school. I was treated by some people like I was some kind of delusional Elle Woods wannabe”

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Free-Trial Commercial Database Defeats Publicity Rights Claim-LaFleur v. Yardi - Technology & Marketing Law Blog Two preliminary notes: 1) This opinion is by a TAFS judge (Trump-appointed, Federalist Society). 2) The right of publicity doctrine is incoherent, and this opinion illustrates that. * * * Yardi operat...

Blog Post: Free-Trial Commercial Database Defeats Publicity Rights Claim–LaFleur v. Yardi

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Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchain sleuths began hunting for unusual patterns in recent bets.

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

The government illegally took your money.

They won’t give it back.

I said what I said.

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.