December 7, 2023 - Today Lex Lumina’s Rebecca Tushnet and Chris Sprigman, working with Discord’s inside counsel, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court defending the associational interests of Discord's users and challenging recently enacted laws in Florida and Texas that regulate online services. Discord’s communities want and need assistance from centralized content moderation in order to support their communities. The Texas and Florida laws under review would interfere with Discord’s efforts to help Discord communities police themselves, in violation of the First Amendment…

On November 13, 2023, Lex Lumina’s Rhett Millsaps and Mark Lemley filed a lawsuit on behalf of Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against bad actors in Vietnam who weaponized DMCA takedown procedures and Google’s systems by setting up dozens of Google accounts and using them to submit thousands of bogus copyright claims against their competitors. These fraudulent claims resulted in removal of over 100,000 businesses’ websites, costing millions of dollars and thousands of hours in lost employee time…

November 13, 2023 – Today a group of prominent artists and organizations led by art collective MSCHF and free-speech advocacy group Authors Alliance, supported by Harvard Law’s Cyberlaw Clinic, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supporting MetaBirkins artist Mason Rothschild and urging the Second Circuit to reverse the trial court’s judgment and permanent injunction, which awarded monetary damages to Hermès and barred Mr. Rothschild from promoting or selling his MetaBirkins artworks…

September 19, 2023 – Today Lex Lumina’s Mark Lemley and co-counsel at Cooley filed a motion to dismiss on behalf of Meta in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Case No. 3:23-cv-03417. The motion asks the Court to dismiss most of the lawsuit filed by comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors, who claim that Meta violated their copyrights by training its artificial-intelligence-based large-language model LLaMA with their books…

June 30, 2023 - Lex Lumina’s Mark Lemley and Mark McKenna, along with lawyers from Irwin IP LLP, today secured exceedingly rare en banc review by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of LKQ Corp. in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Ops. LLC, Fed Cir., 21-2348…

On January 1, 2023, Mark A. Lemley joined Lex Lumina as of counsel. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. Prior to joining Lex Lumina, Lemley was a co-founder of noted litigation boutique Durie Tangri LLP and of Lex Machina, Inc., a startup company that provides litigation data and analytics to law firms, companies, courts, and policymakers. Durie Tangri recently merged with global law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Lex Machina was acquired by Lexis in December 2015…

On October 11, 2022, Lex Lumina filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of Google, Pinterest, Twitter, and Wikimedia in support of Appellee Instagram in Hunley v. Instagram, LLC…

September 1, 2022 - Lex Lumina PLLC announced today that Kristelia García has joined the firm as of counsel. García is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Law School, where she teaches courses in copyright, trademark, competition, and property…

On June 24, 2022, Lex Lumina attorneys filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on behalf of the Authors Alliance and artists Mason Rothschild and Alfred Steiner in Vans, Inc. v. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc…