Webmasters will need to be much more careful about quoting content from online German publications after a new online copyright law comes into effect in Germany on August 1. The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally...
Another instance involved a UK local law enforcement agency's request to take down a YouTube video that falsely portrayed an official wearing a racist uniform. Local law enforcement also asked that another YouTube video be taken down because it...
If the firm can succeed in its fight against NSLs then it could open the floodgates for others to stand up against a law that some see to be nothing more than a snooper's charter. At the time the company said it was working with the authorities to...
Google's Richard Slagado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security, stated they will release those numbers in a separate report from here forward and to "stay tuned" for those data. The remaining 10 percent were mostly court orders...
While Google failed to comply with the order regarding the media and requested clarification instead, Oracle published its list of individuals and organizations that it had paid, naming blogger Florian Mueller and Stanford professor Paul Goldstein...
So Katz is seeking damages under international law. When people malign others, the law protects them. This blog presents publicly available information about RK Centers (former RK Associates),including court records, media publications and opinions.
Even when content doesn’t violate their own guidelines, Google may bend to the law of any given country. In Thailand, the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology asked Google to remove 149 YouTube videos for allegedly insulting the...
The proposed class-action lawsuit accused Facebook of violating California law by featuring user “Likes” as Sponsored Stories without compensation or an opt-out option. Five Facebook members brought the case forward, though nearly one in three U.S...
Google recently commissioned a top first amendment rights academic to make their case that they are a media outlet, much like the New York Times, and are therefore protected by freedom of speech law. So says a judgment by a court in France in the...
Florian Mueller, an intellectual property law blogger who has been following the case, said that the instructions from Judge William Alsup and the language used in the document had been hotly debated by both sides in the case.
Under Australian law, the court could not levy a monetary fine against Google, though they ordered that the search giant pay the plaintiff’s court costs. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.that buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate...
The court delivered a definitive, common sense message – intentionally ignoring theft is not protected by the law. Court of Appeals has resurrected Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against video-sharing service YouTube.
Select Rhode Island law enforcement agencies are about to beef up their training, equipment and investigative budgets. Under the program allowing the distribution of forfeited funds among law enforcement agencies who participate in federal...
Google and other search engines should take steps to ensure that their websites are not used as vehicles to breach the law and should actively develop and use such technology,” the MPs said in their report.
Google is reviewing the court order, which would force Google's operations based in U.S.to obey the Japanese court of law. The man’s lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, told Japan Times his client “decided to seek a court injunction after learning the...
Google’s argument, according to papers filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is that because the WiFi networks weren’t password-protected, Google didn’t violate federal wiretap law: Google: WiFi Data Grab Didn't Violate Wiretap Law
It doesn’t protect your data in the instances of market research, product development, or inquiries from law enforcement. The issue is particularly interesting from a UK and European perspective as it comes weeks before the so-called Cookie Law...
There is no law saying what they can or cannot do with that information, it is what you agree to in the TOS (Terms of Service). One important note though, if your data is sitting on someone else's servers you usually never have to be informed of...
Mosley, with all due respect, is not looking for anything a court of law could order. So.a court decided it wasn’t right for News of the World to label the orgy “Nazi” in nature. In the most recent case, settled in a French court in November, he...
The law has been used by service providers to claim a number of landmark decisions against spammers, including a 2009 ruling that saw Facebook claim a record $837m payout for a password-harvesting scheme.
