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In early March 2022, a coalition of state attorneys general launched an investigation of TikTok to determine whether the social media platform, which is popular among young Americans,...

The Third Circuit in Hepp v. Facebook, examined the scope of any law pertaining to intellectual property carveout, ultimately choosing to significantly expand it to include not only state intellectual property laws but also nontraditional intellectual property laws.

Third Circuit held that § 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230(c), does not preclude claims based on state intellectual property laws, reversing in part a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s state law claims for violation of her right of publicity. Hepp v. Facebook