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Seattle-based law firm focused on serving Internet, media, and technology clients. Tweets are provided as information and are not legal advice.

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Check out Focal's Lachlan Huck's heads-up about an upcoming filing deadline under The Corporate Transparency Act. focallaw.com/resources/clien…

Client Alert: December 31st Deadline Under The Corporate Transparency Act | Focal PLLC

We are writing to remind clients that December 31, 2024, is the deadline to file Beneficial Ownership Information Reports (BOIRs) for business entities formed before January 1, 2024, unless an...

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Do labels matter in the context of differentiating between employees and independent contractors? Check out the article from Focal's Ashley McDonald discussing that question and providing other tips in making the classification assessment. focallaw.com/resources/is-a-…

Is a Worker an Independent Contractor or Employee? | Focal PLLC

The Label Used by a Business and a Worker Does Not Control.  When a business and a worker both agree that the worker is an independent contractor, that means the worker is an independent contractor,...

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Although a TX federal court delayed the effective date of the FTC's Non-Compete Rule, it remains to be seen if the rule will survive legal challenges. Focal's Gwen Wei summarizes the rule and outlines steps employers can take to comply with the rule: focallaw.com/resources/regar…

Regarding The FTC’S Non-Compete Clause Rule | Focal PLLC

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission published its finalized Non-Compete Clause Rule (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/07/2024-09171/non-compete-clause-rule) (“Rule”). The...

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👏 Federal judge puts kibosh on common tactic by clerks fighting access courthousenews.com/federal-j…

Federal judge puts kibosh on common tactic by clerks fighting access

First Amendment rulings are sweeping past restrictions put up by local court officials, with the latest decision coming out of federal court in Pittsburgh.

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Major record labels sue generative AI company for copyright infringement, alleging it copied "decades" worth of sound recordings to output recordings that imitated the "qualities" of "genuine human sound recordings." UMG et al v. Suno Complaint documentcloud.org/documents/…
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Judge tosses LA’s second lawsuit against journalist over police headshots courthousenews.com/judge-tos…

Judge tosses LA's second lawsuit against journalist over police headshots

The ruling comes a day after the city agreed to pay the journalist's lawyer $300,000 to settle a similar lawsuit.

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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo trib.al/uhZQQTf

After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

So much for your descendants posthumously clearing out that massive backlog...

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Amazon Labor Union workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of an affiliation with the Teamsters courthousenews.com/amazon-la…

Amazon Labor Union workers vote overwhelmingly in favor of an affiliation with the Teamsters

The approximately 5,500 Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island will be represented by a newly chartered ALU-International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1.

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Future does not appear bright for Section 230: Ninth Circuit Does More Damage to Section 230--Calise v. Meta blog.ericgoldman.org/archive…

Ninth Circuit Does More Damage to Section 230-Calise v. Meta - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is a lawsuit over scammy ads from Chinese advertisers. The plaintiffs claim Facebook “affirmatively invites” scammy ads by “actively soliciting, encouraging, and assisting scammers it knows, or...

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Good morning. It’s another big week at SCOTUS. The justices will begin by reviewing a 1st amendment battle over social media laws from two conservative states ⁦@CourthouseNews⁩ courthousenews.com/?page_id=…

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The USPTO expresses concern over the use of AI-generated materials in PTAB/TTAB proceedings, issuing guidance recognizing AI's potential for good and harm but concluding that its existing rules are sufficient to address the challenges AI poses. uspto.gov/sites/default/file…
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Judge trims code-scraping suit against Microsoft, GitHub @nhanson_reports courthousenews.com/judge-tri…

Judge trims code-scraping suit against Microsoft, GitHub

Anonymous code writers claim GitHub's coding assistant violated open source licenses protecting their work.

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The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a lawsuit filed by celebrity choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games, alleging that its popular game Fortnite copied his registered dance moves. @hillelaron courthousenews.com/ninth-cir…

Ninth Circuit revives choreographer's lawsuit against Epic Games over Fortnite ‘emote’

Celebrity choreographer Kyle Hanagami accused Fortnite of stealing a three-second snippet of his choreography and repackaging it to be sold to gamers as an "emote."

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Update from the WSLCB on the Cannabis Social Equity Program: lcb.wa.gov/sites/default/fil…
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An interesting copyright case involving kids cartoons. Moonbug alleges BabyBus's Super JoJo YouTube videos infringed on the copyrights in the characters in Moonbug's CoComelon franchise. documentcloud.org/documents/…
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BabyBus's counterclaims in turn led to Moonbug's motion to strike under CA's anti-SLAPP statute, arguing the claims punish protected speech. In opposition, BabyBus relies in part on the statute's commercial speech exception. documentcloud.org/documents/… documentcloud.org/documents/…
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A hefty jury verdict for plaintiffs in this copyright infringement case involving cartoon infant characters. documentcloud.org/documents/…
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Skittles maker Wrigley settles with cannabis company over trademark reuters.com/legal/skittles-m…

Skittles maker Wrigley settles with cannabis company over trademark

Wrigley, the maker of multi-colored fruit-flavored Skittles candies, has settled a lawsuit accusing a seller of cannabis-related merchandise of trademark infringement for marketing products under the...

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Texas TikTok ban challenged by First Amendment rights group courthousenews.com/texas-tik…

Texas TikTok ban challenged by First Amendment rights group

The Lone Star State's TikTok ban for state-owned devices the First Amendment rights of professors and researchers, according to the federal lawsuit.

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Time and bad management could bring Twitter tumbling down faster than anything its rivals do. Yes, including that one. wired.trib.al/eNnbhUT

World of Warcraft Has a Lot to Teach the Twitter Clones

Threads and the parade of Twitter rivals can’t dethrone the king, but time and bad management will.

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The FTC lost an unusually elaborate attempt to block Microsoft’s $69 billion plan to purchase Activision Blizzard, in what could be a game-changing merger within the gaming industry. @nhanson_reports courthousenews.com/judge-ope…

Judge opens door on $69 billion Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

A federal judge ruled the Federal Trade Commission did not prove Microsoft has any intention of withholding games from other platforms or keeping Activision's titles exclusive to Xbox.

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Excellent & thorough analysis of CA's "Journalism Protection" Act. California's Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA) @ericgoldman blog.ericgoldman.org/archive…

California's Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism...

The California legislature is competing with states like Florida and Texas to see who can pass laws will be more devastating to the Internet. California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral...

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