A section from my Internet Law casebook’s chapter on online contracts is titled: “Uber’s TOS Formation Madness. An entire chapter could be dedicated solely to Uber’s TOS dramas!” Here’s another dramatic entry in the annals of Uber’s TOS history.
The
The record labels sued Vimeo for user-caused copyright infringement in 2009. The case is still ongoing in 2026. How old is this lawsuit? If it were a person, it would be GenZ and thus older than every Gen Alpha person
This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service that Musk imploded when
The plaintiff is Guangzhou Tinpod Electronic Technology Co. The plaintiff initially sued under the XYZ pseudonym and hasn’t updated the case caption, even though its identity is no longer sealed.
I presume the plaintiff and many of the 44 defendants
In my previous blog post on this case, I wrote:
This lawsuit raises one of the venerable but surprisingly vexing copyright law questions: when is a price copyrightable? That might sound like a stupid question because “facts” aren’t copyrightable and
This SAD Scheme case ended up before Judge Buchwald, who shreds it. Judge Buchwald recaps the scheme’s fundamental corruptness:
if all of plaintiff’s requested ex parte relief were to be granted, plaintiff would at the outset be entitled to
[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.]
This is a defamation case between a professor and a student in the Emory School of
Katie Sedgwick is a former client of LS Carlson Law. It sounds like she didn’t love working with them. She negatively reviewed the firm on Yelp. I had difficulty finding the original review.
In response, the firm sued her for
The court describes the case:
Plaintiff Channel 781 News (“Channel 781”) is a YouTube-based news outlet focusing on local affairs in Waltham, Massachusetts. Channel 781 posted clips from Waltham municipal government meetings that it believed to be newsworthy. Channel 781
This case naturally raises some questions that Musk might choose to pose to Grok, like:
“Grok, is it bad when TOS formation fails?”
“Grok, what are best practices for TOS formation and does our current TOS formation process satisfy those?”
