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...
For the second time, a federal court correctly rejected Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube. 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...
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 Swiss Federal Tribunal ruled that the company won't need to guarantee 100 percent accuracy when blurring out the faces of individuals who appear in Street View images. A Swiss court has relaxed the privacy and anonymization requirements being...
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. The ruling brings an end to second phase in the two companies' ongoing battle over the use of Java code in...
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.
Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, first filed in 2009 and dismissed by a Virginia court in August 2010, has been revived by a federal appeals court. The appeals court ruling will be one to watch.
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. Each of the four federal agencies contributed to the...
Having a federal judge curating a multibillion-page search index is a little like putting a finger in the hole of the dam without realizing there are 100 more holes draining the same lake," says Skrenta.
Google's ITA acquisition is officially in the clear; a federal court ruling approved the consent agreement between Google and the Department of Justice that was made in April. The Court Approval The court approval is the last government-mandated...
The Federal Government commits to collaborate with the private sector; state, local, tribal, and territorial governments; and international governments–and to provide the support and action necessary to make the Identity Ecosystem a reality.
A Silicon Valley Federal Judge, James Ware, examined a case from plaintiffs to evaluate whether wiretapping charges could be brought against Google for the data it intercepted. The court finds that plaintiffs plead facts sufficient to state a claim...
Google's Street View mapping service infringes privacy, a Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court has ruled. Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner, in 2009 wanted Street View to shut down because faces and license...
The section notice posted at the domains taken down for hosting torrents and a torrent search engine - Torrent-Finder.com goes on to state: "Willful copyright infringement is a federal crime that carries penalties for first time offenders of up to...
David Lieberman of USA TODAY says, "Entertainment companies may find it harder to keep movie and TV show clips from circulating for free online after a federal judge on Wednesday threw out Viacom's hotly contested $1 billion copyright infringement...
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has dismissed a suit brought forth by Pitt County, North Carolina (Greenville, NC is located there for those who are NC-challenged) to charge online travel sites such as Expedia and Travelocity for hotel...
A California federal court judge, Judge Howard Lloyd, has thrown out a copyright infringement suit against online video site Veoh. Guess who loves this ruling? But Google hopes the Veoh ruling is still influential.via NYT
Adding more confusion to the case law surrounding trademark issues and search advertising, a Sixth Circuit federal court in Kentucky found that keyword advertising is a "trademark use in commerce" under the Lanham Act.
IN THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF a marketer suing about search ads, 1-800-Contacts this week filed a lawsuit in federal court against LensWorld for purchasing search links triggered by the term "1-800-contacts.
But just because these state and federal laws so far apply only to government sites, there are good reasons – and potential profits – for those e-commerce sites that take steps toward making their sites more accessible, she said.
