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| Oct 15, 2012 | How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million education blogs | reader comments 99 with 78 posters participating, including story author
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Web hosting firm ServerBeach recently received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violation ... |
| May 23, 2012 | IBM’s Siri ban highlights companies’ privacy, trade secret challenges | Aurich Lawson with apologies to Paul Rand reader comments 47 with 40 posters participating
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Apple's digital "assistant" Siri isn't welcome at IBM; neither are Appl... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Psystar Loses Again: Appeals Court Says It Can't Install Legally Purchased OSX On Other Hardware | As you may recall, Psystar was a company that tried to make Apple Mac clones by legally purchasing Apple operating systems, and figuring out how to install them on other hardware. Apple sued the company in 2008 for violating its license. Ps... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Is Destroying A Hard Drive On A Work Issued Computer The Equivalent Of Hacking Or Fraud? | We’ve noted in the past how the courts have been stretching massively the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which was really designed to deal with unauthorized access to computers — commonly referred to as malicious hacking. Yet, the cou... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | Reminder: The Embarrassing Naked Photos On A Stolen Laptop May Not Belong To The Thief | A cheap laptop horror story |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Court Says College Can Snoop On Students' Email | There have been plenty of cases where courts have said that it’s okay for an employer to snoop on (employer-provided) employee email accounts. And now there’s a case saying basically the same thing for colleges and universities. As long as ... |
| May 2, 2011 | Blog Posts About Crusing Around The Caribbean On New Boyfriend's Sailboat Leads To Alimony Reduction | There are a growing number of lawsuits involving stuff people put online via social networks, blogs, Twitter, etc. which later gets them into trouble on legal issues. Evan Brown has the details on a case involving a woman who was receiving ... |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Yes, It's Legal To 'Tag' Someone In A Photo On Facebook Without Permission | While I’ve heard the argument that in Europe, it’s possible to use various privacy laws to demand that someone remove a photo or “tag” of the requester, in the US that’s not the case (barring other circumstances that might require the remov... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Turkey Cooking Instructions | Thanksgiving may be over, but right before the holiday, Greenberg Smoked Turkeys (which, as you might guess, sells turkeys) sued competitor Goode-Cook for copyright infringement, claiming that the following bit of turkey care instructions v... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | US Copyright Group Sued For Extortion, Conspiracy & Fraud | Well, the whole mass automated “pay up or we’ll sue” legal business may be getting a bit more interesting as Evan Brown notes that one of the folks sued by US Copyright Group has struck back with a class action lawsuit alleging that the law... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Court Blocks Furniture Seller From Sending More DMCA Takedowns To eBay Over Competitor's Furniture | It’s no secret that the DMCA can be used as a form of censorship and anti-competitive practices. Thankfully, at least some judges are catching on. Evan Brown has the story of how Zen Path, a company that sells furniture online, had been sen... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Using MySpace Photo Of Debtor's Daughter As An Intimidation Tactic Is A No-No | Collections agencies are pretty notorious for pulling out all sorts of tricks to get people to pay up, including finding out info about family members. However, apparently one collections agency went too far in two specific ways: first, by ... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Insanity Defense For Hacking Email Doesn't Work | Pleading an insanity defense may work in some extreme cases, but it seems like a pretty big stretch to plead insanity as a defense to hacking someone’s computer to access their email. The case involved a defendant in an existing case, who h... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Juror Using iPhone To Look Up Definition Of 'Prudence' Leads To Mistrial | We’ve had a number of stories recently about juries getting in trouble for using forbidden technology while on the jury — and some of our most heated discussions have been over whether or not it makes sense to block these tools from jurors.... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Once Again, Yelp Not Liable For Reviews Someone Doesn't Like | It’s really quite stunning how frequently people sue review sites because they’re unhappy about reviews of their business. You would hope that the lawyers these upset business owners use would know better — but all too often the lawyers app... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | Why Is Righthaven Demanding The Domain Names Of Sites It Sues? | In covering all of the Righthaven lawsuits, we’ve noted that the company sues everyone for $75,000 and, bizarrely, that it also demands they hand over their domain name. To date, no one has actually done that. Every settlement that’s been r... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Yet Another Attempt To Expand Publicity Rights Rejected | We’ve talked a few times recently about continued attempts to broaden the rather questionable concept of “publicity rights.” The original idea behind publicity rights were to stop a company from using a famous person’s name or likeness with... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Lawsuit Over Use Of Creative Commons Content Raises Contract vs. Copyright Issue | One of the more interesting issues related to copyright law is how contract law meshes with copyright law. For example, there was the recent case (still going through the appeals process) over whether or not a copyright holder (a record lab... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Careful With That Fake Social Networking Profile; If You 'Personate' Someone, You Can Go To Jail | We’ve seen numerous lawsuits involving schools punishing students for setting up fake social networking profiles of principals or teachers. However, could setting up a fake profile actually be a criminal offense that gets you sent to jail? ... |
| May 26, 2010 | Suggestion: When Trying To Quash A Subpoena To Reveal Your Identity… Don't Use Your Real Name | There have been plenty of cases where a person or company gets a subpoena to try to identify an anonymous online person — such as in various file sharing cases. It’s also not uncommon for those anonymous internet people to fight the subpoen... |
| Jan 8, 2010 | Another Court Finds 'Browserwrap' Terms Are Enforceable | Just a few months ago we wrote about two separate lawsuits involving “browserwrap” or “clickwrap” agreements and whether or not they were enforceable. In the first one, an agreement was found to be enforceable even if the user on the websit... |
| Apr 9, 2008 | Why Is RIM Trying To Block The Trademark On Twitter? | IP Democracy points us to the news that RIM, the maker of the super popular Blackberry device and service, is apparently trying to block Twitter’s trademark application on the name Twitter. Twitter, of course, is the also quite popular onli... |
| Nov 9, 2006 | This Time We Mean It: Open Source Software Still Doesn't Violate Antitrust Law | Some people just never give up. Take, for example, the case of a guy who didn’t like open source software because it made it more difficult for him to sell software. Last year, he sued the Free Software Foundation, claiming that the GPL ope... |
| Jun 6, 2006 | Another Court Recognizes Site Owners Aren't Liable For Site Comments | It happens all too often that some website owner in the US is sued with claims of libel over comments on that site in an open forum. We usually point to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and note that it’s pretty clear that ser... |