In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights. In April, a Japanese court fined Google $3,100 for autocomplete suggestions that reportedly linked an innocent...
Google Video trial to continue to Italian supreme court – PCWorldProsecutor claims three Google execs should be held accountable for a posted video that showed a handicapped student being bullied. Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German...
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for the uncensored results shown in its autocomplete feature that linked an innocent man to crime, AFP reported. A Japanese man.who remains anonymous, complained to the Tokyo District Court after he...
The Australian High Court’s ruling overturns a Federal Court ruling from last April, which found Google guilty of engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct in four cases between 2005 and 2008 – based on a prior court decision that found a...
The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may have retained or paid print or internet authors, journalists, commentators or bloggers who have and/or may publish comments on the issues in this case," Alsup's order read.
In a court filing, originally posted by Wired, the search giant asked that Oracle pay costs including printing and copy fees, compensation for expert appointments and filing fees for both printed and electronic excerpts over the course of the case.
But the court rejected Oracle's other claims, most notably whether Google had copied 37 of Java's application programming interfaces. Aside from the matter of that appeal, the only outstanding issue in the current case is whether Google will make...
A U.S.federal court jury ruled that the company did not infringe on Oracle patents with its use of Java components in its Android platform. Oracle had previously won a partial victory on the matter of copyright infringement, though the jury...
The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the National Security Agency's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia.
Google has moved that its patent infringement case with Oracle be declared a mistrial following only partial findings of infringement from a San Francisco court. According to early reports from the court, Google attorneys intend to file a motion...
The $1 billion Viacom-YouTube copyright case was reopened by an appeals court. In March 2011, a United States court for the Ninth Circuit (California) ruled in the case of Network Automation, Inc.v. In the 2010 ruling, the court ruled that...
We conclude that the District Court correctly held that the safe harbor requires knowledge or awareness of specific infringing activity, but we vacate the order granting summary judgment because a reasonable jury could find that YouTube had actual...
A Google spokesperson said on that ruling, “We are disappointed by the Federal Court's decision that Google should be responsible for the content of four particular ads on its platform. That statement doesn’t exactly jive with Google’s position on...
The Paris court didn't agree, and apparently didn’t like that Google “ignored requests to remove the offending word,” Courthouse News Service reported. Autocomplete, a feature that is quite popular among Google's users, has also been the subject of...
A U.S.district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of the company, ordering the defendants to pay $583 million in damages from violations of the CAN-SPAM Act, as well as $27 million in damages for trademark infringement.
Details on Google's representation in Italy, the anticipated legal battle, and court dates have yet to be released. While broadly dismissed as a ridiculous case that would almost certainly fail to stick, the February 2010 ruling found three of the...
A Nevada District Court case has ruled in favor of Chanel, allowing the company to take down over 800 domain names that sell counterfeit products. Some feel this judge was extending well beyond his jurisdiction for a District Court ruling by...
The Irish court has since been evaluating the merits of the case. The Irish High Court was to determine if the case was worthy of being pursued in commercial court on November 21. It may be that Google conducted an out-of-court settlement, but...
The Supreme Court of Canada’s widely anticipated ruling on the Crookes v. The Supreme Court, in their ruling, found that hyperlinks cannot be subjected to the same laws that govern traditional publication.
