Explore the legal principles of social media liability, copyright infringement, defamation, and platform immunity under Section 230 and DMCA.
Social media is now ubiquitous as a series of platforms by which people communicate and transmit information. In this fun and interesting program, explore social media and how the law regulates the social media sites. This program explores the two major pillars of immunity from the 1990s: the immunity from state tort liability for defamation and state torts, and the copyright immunity for infringement on their sites.
Surveying state and federal cases, experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi takes you on a fun, interesting journey through the case law of myriad social media platforms and ubiquitous sites like Twitter, LiveJournal, Yelp, YouTube, Yahoo, and Facebook, looking at cases where immunity has protected them and a few instances where immunity has not saved them.
And we also explore the expansive rights you give up the moment you upload content, from the broad grant of copyright licenses and even grants of licenses to your personal rights of publicity. You may be shocked when you are done at just how much social media sites depend on both individual user gifts of content and congressional grants of immunity to do what they do.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
