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...
At his sentencing last week, Borker sobbed openly in court, saying “I had a big mouth and I couldn’t control it. In one case, he and two other defendants were ordered to pay $300,000 to Chloe and Montblanc.
District Court Judge William Alsup said Google "failed to comply" with his order of August 7 in the firm's patent litigation with enterprise database and applications vendor Oracle. The Court is concerned that the parties and/or counsel herein may...
Five Facebook members brought the case forward, though nearly one in three U.S.citizens could have joined in, said related court documents. Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit over Sponsored Stories.
So says a judgment by a court in France in the case of TF1, France’s largest television network, against YouTube and parent company Google. Stateside, a U.S.second circuit court of appeals panel overturned a judgment in YouTube’s favor in April...
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. Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, first filed in 2009 and...
They were ordered to pay the ACCC’s court costs, but no financial penalty is warranted under the Trade Practices Act. Google has lost an Australian court case on appeal after the original decision in their favor was overturned today.
However, in January of this year, a French court ordered Google to pay a $65,000 fine and remove the word “escroc” (crook) as an Autocomplete suggestion for the name of the plaintiff in that case. The man’s lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, told Japan Times...
A court in India has ordered 21 technology companies, including Google and Facebook, to remove content it deemed offensive. Local reports indicate that the Indian branches of both companies have complied with the New Delhi court's request and...
A commercial court in Paris has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc.to pay €500,000 ($660,000) in damages to Bottin Cartographes after finding the company guilty of unfair competition.
The Paris court didn't agree, and apparently didn’t like that Google “ignored requests to remove the offending word,” Courthouse News Service reported. Also that year, Google was ordered to remove search suggestions of “scam” when users searched...
So.a court decided it wasn’t right for News of the World to label the orgy “Nazi” in nature. His previous judgment against News of the World in London’s High Court awarded him £60,000. We've been saying to Google, you shouldn't do this, this...
Google and Sonic.net, a small Internet service provider, have been forced to hand a WikiLeaks volunteer’s email information to the U.S.government under a secret and controversial court order. The court order pertained to the emails of WikiLeaks...
We are delighted that Copiepresse has given us assurances that we can re-include their sites in our Google search index without court-ordered penalties," said Jeannie Hornung, Google Communications Manager.
District Court for South Carolina ordered Bright Builders to pay $770,750 in statutory damages and Christopher Prince, owner of the web site, $28,250, according to lawyers for the plaintiff, Cleveland Golf Company Inc," InternetRetailer noted.
Will Tuesday's court ruling impact Google's policy of what information they keep in their search results? A Manhattan judge ruled in Franklin's favor and ordered Google to reveal the names, addresses and phone numbers of the three tormentors," CBS...
Google says there are privacy protections added in, but excuse my skepticism as they were just court-ordered to hand over the name of an anonymous blogger in a libel suit. If you commute along a heavily-trafficked highway, you've probably often...
Today, the two sides are undergoing court-ordered mediation. If it's not resolved, the suit will go to court March 2. A new lawsuit brought by a San Francisco chiropractor Steven Biegel is raising a very good question about online reviews.
In December 2005, a French court ordered Google to pay Louis Vuitton a fine, and cease offering competing ads to competitors. The strategy by trademark owners seems to be finding a new argument and go to court.
Child support payments of 15,000 euros a month were ordered by an Italian court in June 2007. A few weeks ago, La Cicciolina, AKA Ilona Staller, sued her ex-husband, Jeffrey Koons, for $2.4 million dollars (1.5 million euros) in child support for...
