Eric Goldman
@ericgoldman.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
Blog Post: Addiction Lawsuit Against TikTok Can Proceed in Nevada–TikTok v. Nevada District Court
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Addiction Lawsuit Against TikTok Can Proceed in Nevada-TikTok v. Nevada District Court - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
All eyes are on the social media addiction class action lawsuits in California federal and state courts, where the plaintiffs are getting close to conducting trials that pose existential implications ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Blog Post: Addiction Lawsuit Against TikTok Can Proceed in Nevada–TikTok v. Nevada District Court
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Blog Post: Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims from Facebook User Who Didn’t Get Wanted (?) Ads–Shah v. Woodbury
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Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims from Facebook User Who Didn't Get Wanted (?) Ads-Shah v. Woodbury - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Shah alleges that “Woodbury and Facebook denied Shah, based on his age and gender, access to information about Woodbury’s educational services by choosing to make Woodbury’s advertisements on Facebook...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Blog Post: Court Dismisses Discrimination Claims from Facebook User Who Didn’t Get Wanted (?) Ads–Shah v. Woodbury
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Lawyer boasts: "I am a petty-ass bitch. One of my favorite things to do is drop a bunch of bullshit on opposing counsel's desk at like 4:45 on a Friday afternoon, & then be like, thanks so much. Have a great weekend!" When she does this, how should the court respond?
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November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lawyer boasts: "I am a petty-ass bitch. One of my favorite things to do is drop a bunch of bullshit on opposing counsel's desk at like 4:45 on a Friday afternoon, & then be like, thanks so much. Have a great weekend!" When she does this, how should the court respond?
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This master's thesis did a consumer survey about editorial transparency mandates & concluded that "disclosing moderation decisions does not significantly enhance users’ positive perceptions, attitudes, platform usage, or online expression"
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November 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This master's thesis did a consumer survey about editorial transparency mandates & concluded that "disclosing moderation decisions does not significantly enhance users’ positive perceptions, attitudes, platform usage, or online expression"
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Blog Post: Using a Meme in Your Advertising? Clear the Publicity Rights–FJerry v. Oasis Energy
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Using a Meme in Your Advertising? Clear the Publicity Rights-FJerry v. Oasis Energy - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This case involves a photo from the “Dude With Sign” meme series, featuring Seth Phillips in the titular role: An advertiser, Oasis Energy, modified the meme to promote its offerings in two social med...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Blog Post: Using a Meme in Your Advertising? Clear the Publicity Rights–FJerry v. Oasis Energy
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
Blog Post: Another Facebook Account Termination, Another Failed Lawsuit–Karam v. Meta
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Another Facebook Account Termination, Another Failed Lawsuit-Karam v. Meta - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a pro se case. The court summarizes: “Meta purportedly banned or restricted [Karam’s] Facebook account, which allegedly prevented him from advertising his business or from engaging with potent...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Blog Post: Another Facebook Account Termination, Another Failed Lawsuit–Karam v. Meta
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From a legal standpoint, does an app constitute an "Internet website"? With respect to the since-amended Oregon's sui generis non-consensual pornography law, the answer is "no"
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A179577, Opinion
In Case No. 17CR83828, conviction for UDII reversed; remanded for resentencing. In Case No. 19CR43394, affirmed.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
From a legal standpoint, does an app constitute an "Internet website"? With respect to the since-amended Oregon's sui generis non-consensual pornography law, the answer is "no"
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AI chatbots can and do publish content consistent with their editorial agendas. If the First Amendment doesn't protect their editorial decisions, government censors will require *all* chatbots to espouse partisan orthodoxies that entrench incumbents' power
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Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars
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November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
AI chatbots can and do publish content consistent with their editorial agendas. If the First Amendment doesn't protect their editorial decisions, government censors will require *all* chatbots to espouse partisan orthodoxies that entrench incumbents' power
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If the democratic (small 'd') opposition ever returns to power in the U.S., a huge task awaits: rebuilding the institutions and laws. It cannot be that a House Speaker shuts down the people’s house indefinitely or refuses to swear in the duly elected representatives. #RuleOfLaw
This is seriously one of those things that probably blows the minds of most people outside of the United States.
A “swearing in” should obviously be completely ceremonial, and should have no legal weight at all.
THE ELECTION GIVES THE WINNER THE ROLE, not the Speaker.
It really makes no sense.
A “swearing in” should obviously be completely ceremonial, and should have no legal weight at all.
THE ELECTION GIVES THE WINNER THE ROLE, not the Speaker.
It really makes no sense.
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
If the democratic (small 'd') opposition ever returns to power in the U.S., a huge task awaits: rebuilding the institutions and laws. It cannot be that a House Speaker shuts down the people’s house indefinitely or refuses to swear in the duly elected representatives. #RuleOfLaw
I rarely get hard-copy reprints of my articles any more, so it was nice to receive reprints of my "Generative AI is Doomed" essay. Bonus: the 30+ images are reprinted in color!
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Happy to mail you a reprint--email egoldman@gmail.com
Read the PDF: ssrn.com/abstract=480...
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Happy to mail you a reprint--email egoldman@gmail.com
Read the PDF: ssrn.com/abstract=480...
Generative AI is Doomed Article Reprint
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November 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I rarely get hard-copy reprints of my articles any more, so it was nice to receive reprints of my "Generative AI is Doomed" essay. Bonus: the 30+ images are reprinted in color!
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Happy to mail you a reprint--email egoldman@gmail.com
Read the PDF: ssrn.com/abstract=480...
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Happy to mail you a reprint--email egoldman@gmail.com
Read the PDF: ssrn.com/abstract=480...
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
FWIW, I will never forgive the AI video of "King" Trump liqui-shitting on peaceful American protestors
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Trump’s Government Of Spite: Political Performance Art For Assholes
A couple weeks ago, as millions of Americans took to the streets in what may have been the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, the President of the United States responded by… posting a …
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November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
FWIW, I will never forgive the AI video of "King" Trump liqui-shitting on peaceful American protestors
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Blog Post: Copyright Claims Over Content Syndication Sniping Can Proceed–Next Impulse v. NewsBreak
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Copyright Claims Over Content Syndication Sniping Can Proceed-Next Impulse v. NewsBreak - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Comeback Media operates several media properties, including a sports site named “Next Impulse.” It publishes new articles and syndicates them to other websites, including Newsbreak. The syndication wa...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Blog Post: Copyright Claims Over Content Syndication Sniping Can Proceed–Next Impulse v. NewsBreak
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This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups."
But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
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But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups."
But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
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But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!
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Seventh Circuit calls out the SAD Scheme: "we acknowledge that a flood of similar claims of intellectual property infringement with no particular ties to the Northern District of Illinois have swamped and, understandably, troubled the district courts"
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October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Seventh Circuit calls out the SAD Scheme: "we acknowledge that a flood of similar claims of intellectual property infringement with no particular ties to the Northern District of Illinois have swamped and, understandably, troubled the district courts"
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“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.
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By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
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Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.
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DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
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DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found.
DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
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DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found.
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Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do