British software company alleges trademark infringement by Meta
A British software company, Threads Software Limited, is alleging trademark infringement by Meta. The company claims that Meta copied its name and brand when it launched its own social media app, Threads, in July 2023. Threads Software Limited says it had declined four offers from Meta to purchase its domain name, “threads.app.” After Meta launched […]
British software firm sues Meta over “Threads” trademark
A British software firm has sued Meta for allegedly infringing on its trademark “Threads.” Threads Software Limited says it has owned the trademark for its cloud-based messaging hub since 2012, but Meta launched its own social media platform called Threads in July 2023. Threads Software Limited has given Meta 30 days to stop using the […]
Music publishers sue Anthropic over copyright infringement
Three major music publishers, Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO, have sued AI company Anthropic for copyright infringement. The publishers allege that Anthropic copied and distributed lyrics from at least 500 songs without permission, using them to train its AI chatbot Claude. The lawsuit is the latest in a growing body of legal […]
Two Floridians charged with stealing over $1 Million
Uber Eats was scammed out of over $1 million by two young men from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trayon Morgan and Roy Blackwood were arrested by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office on August 7, 2023, after an eight-month-long investigation uncovered their fraudulent scheme. The scam began in January 2022, when Morgan created several fake Uber Eats […]
Internet Archive sued by record labels over Great 78 Project
Major record labels are suing the Internet Archive, accusing the nonprofit of copyright infringement for its “Great 78 Project.” The project digitizes sound recordings on 78 RPM records, which were made between 1898 and the late 1950s. The record labels argue that the Great 78 Project allows users to download and listen to copyrighted music […]
New York District Court requires warrant for border mobile phone searches
The United States District Court in New York has become the first court to rule that a warrant is required for border mobile phone searches unless there are urgent circumstances. This was made known in its decision in United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023). The court in this instance mainly relied on the […]
Supreme Court sidesteps ruling on section 230
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit that may have called into question Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This federal legislation protects internet corporations like Twitter and YouTube against lawsuits based on user-generated content, especially those originating from the Anti-Terrorism Act. Families of those murdered by Islamist shooters in […]
Robot lawyer to make court debut in February
A robot lawyer, who uses bluetooth to tell defendants what to say, plans to fight two speeding tickets in court next month. Joshua Browder is the CEO of DoNotPay, the startup that announced on Twitter last week. “On February 22nd at 1.30PM, history will be made. For the first time ever, a robot will represent […]
HackerOne Employee Fired For Using Bug Reports To Claim Bounties
HackerOne has fired an employee for using bug reports submitted by external researchers to claim extra bounties elsewhere. The company was compelled to investigate the issue after a customer filed a complaint on June 22 asking it to investigate “a suspicious vulnerability disclosure made outside of the HackerOne platform.” According to HackerOne co-founder and CISO […]
