District Court Judge Louis Stanton has confirmed, once again, that YouTube operates well within the rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and therefore is protected by safe harbor. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom...
A Japanese man.who remains anonymous, complained to the Tokyo District Court after he discovered that his name was being linked to a crime he didn't commit in Google's autocomplete feature. A Japanese court has fined Google $3,100 for the...
District Court - Eastern District of Wisconsin because "she didn't show her name has any commercial value or that Google made any use of it (commercial or not). But a three-judge appeals court panel said Google's alleged improper use of Stayart's...
Still, Internet users searching for information about her see her name alongside “prostitute,” “escort,” and “red light district,” when typing Bettina Wulff into the Google search bar. This time, Germany’s former First Lady, Bettina Wulff, is...
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...
District Court, and the ITC is due to make a decision on 24 August as to whether Apple infringes on a Motorola WiFi patent. Court of Appeals judge Richard Posner dismissed patent infringement claims from both Apple and Motorola in the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that Google's Chrome web browser infringes patents relating to its zooming and scrolling functions. Google is being sued by California-based EMG over technologies used in its Chrome mobile...
District Judge Lucy Koh said the plaintiffs had shown economic injury could occur through Facebook's use of their names, photographs, and likenesses. Five Facebook members brought the case forward, though nearly one in three U.S.citizens could have...
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern California District Court, alleged that the company knowingly infringed on user privacy when it used browser cookies to track activity. Facebook said the claims were without merit and the social network would be...
Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia. 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.
District Court proceedings could be nearing an end. The high-profile patent infringement battle between Google and Oracle has entered jury deliberations. The juror panel will now decide whether Google infringed on Oracle's Java patents in...
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...
District Court Judge William Alsup, seen by the AFP. The web giant had offered Oracle less than 1 percent of Android revenue, but Oracle has already rejected the offer for being too low, according to reports citing a court document filed on Tuesday.
Tokyo District Court granted an injunction against the search giant on March 19, though the anonymous man behind the petition won’t have his way quite yet. The man’s lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, told Japan Times his client “decided to seek a court...
District Court for the Western District of Texas accusing 18 companies, including Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Yelp, of distributing privacy-invading mobile apps. Major technology brands behind more than 30 of the top Apple iPhone applications...
District Judge Amy Jackson didn’t agree, and basically told EPIC it isn’t the court’s job to tell agencies like the FTC how to do their job. A federal court dismissed a lawsuit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) brought against the U.S.
The complaint was filed today in a Washington, D.C.federal district court. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy policy, which is set to become...
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.
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...
District Court. The two have now settled out of court, though a confidentiality agreement prevents them from disclosing whether any money exchanged hands. Twitter and Twittad have settled their dispute over the word “tweet,” though Twittad will...
