In the lawsuit, they state, “Registration of the Image with the copyright office is not a prerequisite to filing a claim for copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C.a) because the Image is not a United States work.
Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.that buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law. Under Australian law, the court could not levy a monetary fine against Google, though they ordered that the search giant pay the plaintiff’s...
Content creators, law professors, copyright holders, philosophers, the MPAA, and the RIAA, there’s a place at the table for them,” Hedger said. Smith said in response to the White House’s show of opposition to the bill in its current form, "It is...
We're pleased that the [Spanish] court is considering asking guidance from Europe's top court on whether Spain's [data-protection agency] has overridden European law. Though freedom-of-expression provisions of Spanish law protect newspapers, legal...
The innovative use of the tools currently available to law enforcement to seize these domain names is similar to the remedy that would be specifically authorized under the bipartisan Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act for websites...
Google Self-Driving Car Driver Breaks Law - Jalopnik Google Signs France Artists Deal to Cool Tensions From Copyright Battles - Bloomberg Homeland Security with help from ICANN has seized the domain of a torrent search site and posted a notice...
Byron Gordon of SEO-PR interviewed Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig about copyright issues back at SES Chicago 2008. Most reporters are focused on the United States Copyright Office declaration that it is it legal to unlock or...
Merkel said the Google book scanning was done "without any regard to copyright law," and Google couldn't "just go around scanning books. Zeit Online reported that German federal and state government officials are convinced that Google Analytics is...
China Antimonopoly Law Could Derail Microsoft/Yahoo Deal, Google Baidu Wins Copyright Case Against Music Companies Some estimates have Baidu as enjoying a 62% market share there, comparable to the share Google has in the United States.
Like copyright law, trademark ownership is location-based, and therefore must be obtained on a country-by-country basis. What's a Trademark (and Trademark Law)? Eric Goldman, assistant professor of law and director of the High Tech Law Institute at...
Copyright infringement (aka "copyright violation"), as defined by Copyright Law of the United States of America, occurs when a person (i.e.the "infringer") uses someone else's copyrighted work without their permission.
Google Wins in KinderStart Case Google has come out on top in a case filed last year by KinderStart.com, in which the kid-friendly search engine and parental advice site accused Google of "downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or...
Search and analyze the full text of the Copyright Law of the United States of America & related laws contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. Copyright Law (title 17 of the US Code) Passed in 1998, the DMCA is a bill designed to bring the...
The suit alleges that the $90 billion search engine and advertising juggernaut is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law, said Authors...
Adult Magazine and Web Site Files Law Suit Against Google By Gary Price, Nov. John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law offers an anlaysis. MediaPost also provides more coverage: Adult Publisher Sues Google For Copyright Infringement
Another Adwords "related"/trademark law suit was filed in a New York court about a 10 days ago. Google News Hong Kong Causes Copyright Concerns By Gary Price, Sep.http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/040914-21
adjudication_id=38095, and good longer write-ups here http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php? You could also try the fee-based service, Turnitin, http://turnitin.com/static/products_services/search_engines.html -- though there are student issues...
Google's Thumbnails Illegal in Germany Greplaw.org, March 29, 2004 http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl? A German regional court rules that thumbnail photos used in Google's news service violate copyright laws.permalink)
Digital Copyright Law Still Damaging After All These Years. LookSmart's deal to power the main web search results for MSN in the United States and elsewhere has been extended for just over a month to run through mid-January 2004.
Last month, a Harvard Law School study brought to light that fact Google does not include certain web sites in the French and German versions of its search engines, in particular neo-Nazi or white supremacy sites that have content that might be...
