Eric Goldman was quoted by Courthouse News Service about a case where two people filed a class action lawsuit against PeopleConnect, which collects and stores information and photos from high school yearbooks and posts them on classmates.com.
Eric Goldman, a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, says that while yearbooks are largely viewed as published material and people do not own copyrights to their yearbook pictures, the realities of the internet in today’s world has presented new questions that our court system struggles to resolve.
“The hard part is that yearbooks had a degree of obscurity that made them harder for people to find in the future than other types of printed books, and the internet has lifted that veil of obscurity that shrouded yearbooks in a way that makes it feel like a new question even though we think of yearbooks as published materials,” Goldman said.
Professor Goldman also spoke with Mediapost.com about a lawsuit brought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other critics against Senator Elizabeth Warren for allegedly allegedly violating the First Amendment by urging Amazon to stop promoting the book The Truth About COVID-19; to the Washington Examiner about how Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Communications Commission has a track record that suggests she is unlikely to help him overhaul Section 230, a law that gives social media platforms legal immunity for content moderation decisions; to Courthouse News Service about Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter; and to Fortune about the Department of Justice’s defense of Section 230 after Biden said before he was elected that he wanted to revoke the law.
