Judge Remands Fired ByteDance Engineer’s Suit, Dismisses Partial Copyright Claim

(September 5, 2023, 2:41 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on Sept. 1 remanded to state court claims brought by a former engineer that ByteDance Inc., the owner of the TikTok social media app, violated California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by allegedly scraping other social media apps’ content and creating fake users to boost its platform, but dismissed the engineer’s claims against ByteDance to the extent they are preempted by federal copyright law....

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