B.C. ‘spiritual influencer’ can amend Facebook suit: court [Video]

A woman’s bid to sue Facebook for $75 million over a variety of alleged misconduct – including copyright and trademark infringement, harassment and breach of privacy – has been mostly dismissed in B.C. Supreme Court.

Jasbir Rai will have the opportunity to amend her case to focus more narrowly on the privacy allegations, according to the decision by Justice Carla L. Forth, which was issued last week and published online Tuesday. 

“The plaintiff claims that she is a self-employed ‘spiritual influencer’ who runs multiple spiritual websites online,” Forth’s decision begins, before explaining that Rai conducts this work under the pseudonym “Bobby Dazzler.”

According to the court decision, Rai registered a trademark for that name, with a specific font, in April 2008. She also asserted that she has a copyright in the name Bobby Dazzler, though the defendants in the case – Meta Platforms Inc. and Facebook Canada Ltd. – disputed this.

Rai filed her lawsuit against …