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Five years ago
This week in 2020, a judge forbade a Facebook user who was charged by an agent by publishing the name of the agent on social media, sued the DC Police Union to block the release of officers involved in shootings, and we wrote about how section 230 protects the capacity of people to complain about the police. Donald Trump gave his second Tiktok -Executive Order more directly through Bytedance to sell it, and we wondered if Oracle would change his tune about section 230 if it bought the platform. We also dug in the interesting fight between Epic and Apple about Fortnite in the App Store.
Ten years ago
This week in 2015 we looked at all the things that the Court of Appeal had received incorrectly to decide that APIs fall under copyright, a judge was not at all impressed by a Class Action case that claimed that Yelp records are real employees, and a guest post in why patent trolls love east -texas. Ashley Madison still tried to abuse the DMCA to hide his notorious leak, a court threw over some Roadblocks for Malibu Media, and the Illinois Attorney Discipline Board finally moved against John Steele from Prenda. Comcast also quietly admitted that the use of broadband use was a cue handle, not a technical necessity.
Fifteen years ago
This week in 2010 we emphasized a single image that summarized the insanity of the Music Licensing Thicket, while both U2’s manager and John Mellencamp panicked about the impact of the internet on the music industry. Las Vegas Review-Journal seemed to have a number of weird ideas about what it was filled with the Righthaven-Rechtszaken, Apple took Grooveshark from the App Store because universal music did not like it, and the recording file used the Net Neutrality debate to try to make the copyright infringement on CSAM again. There was also a development in the long-term legal fight for Bratz dolls.
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