Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (“CDA”) grants sweeping immunity to interactive computer service providers (“ISP”) against claims arising from content posted on their sites by third parties. Significantly, this protects websites from tort liability arising from content their…
The Wayback Machine is a well-known resource to law school journal editors and many other people. For editors, it is a tool to confirm the accuracy of claims cited using webpages that are no longer accessible or behind a paywall.…
There used to be a simpler time when live news happened but twice a day. I obviously don’t mean that literally. But whatever happened around town and across the world throughout the day (and night), people in their bathrobes picked…
There is no denying that social media has taken over our society. Even those who are not well versed in social media have a basic understanding of what it does and how it operates. With this emergence of social media,…
Chances are, if you owned a VIZIO TV from February 2014 to late 2016 and the default “Smart Interactivity” feature was enabled, your TV was transmitting second-by-second information back to VIZIO about what you were watching–be it from your cable…
A Florida jury has decided that a grainy sex tape released without permission is worth $115 million in compensatory damages, plus $25 million in punitive damages, resulting in a staggering award of $140 million.[1] Retired wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose real…
In the investigation following the San Bernardino killings where fourteen people were murdered and twenty-two were left injured, authorities learned that one of the killers, Tashfeen Malik, had revealed violent inclinations in her social media activities. Since 2012, Malik had…
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted to regulate Internet service as a public utility. This move helps ensure that Internet service providers do not block content or divide the web into fast lanes for Internet and media companies…
“Better safe than sorry right. Channel 13 news was just talking about this change in Facebook’s privacy policy. Better safe than sorry. As of January 3rd, 2015 at 11:43am Easter standard time. I do not give Facebook or any entities…
Author: Gill Benedek, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law We live in tumultuous times. Or so Professor David Nimmer, a prolific copyright law scholar, proposed during the Annual Burns Senior Lecture in Intellectual Property on January 17th 2013, at…
Author: Eric Null, Senior Articles Editor, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal The debate about network neutrality—the idea that packets of information traversing the pipes that connect us to the Internet should be treated equally and on a best-efforts basis—is…
Author: Agatha M. Cole, Staff Editor, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal In August of 2005, a Florida investigator on the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce—a national network of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies dedicated to preventing…
