We will look carefully at how much impact this change will have in practice, but we welcome the announcement from Google and will be pressing other search engines to follow suit. Only copyright holders know if something is authorized, and only...
In the 2011 defamation suit, Katz’s lawyer Todd Levine issued a stern warning to those who would consider covering the news about the case. In fact, it’s the second time he’s filed suit against the blogger; he lost his defamation case last year.
Oracle Copyright Suit Seeks Billions from Google 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...
The agreements mentioned in the suit involve the accused companies' management agreeing to not hire key staff from competitors and to limit pay awards for new employees. Five former employees who are suing the group for violating claims brought...
In one example in that suit, filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, users were led to believe by virtue of the ad title that they would be taken to the Honda.com.au website, when in fact the ad was for another website called...
Court of Appeals has resurrected Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit against video-sharing service YouTube. Google Fights Back in Viacom/YouTube Copyright Suit The court delivered a definitive, common sense message – intentionally...
As he told the Huffington Post in an emailed statement: “Facebook decided to sue me after I myself, filed a law suit against them, in Israel. No, not that Mark Zuckerberg. The other one; the Mark Zuckerberg formerly known as Rotem Guez.
Google notes that users searching for entities such as celebrities and companies are often looking for entertainment and therefore Useful might suit a social networking page or blog that didn’t qualify as Vital.
While the lawsuit was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs by Chicago law firm Edelson McGuire, the case is set up to become a class action suit. The suit claims that: A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer...
Adult Magazine and Web Site Files Law Suit Against Google Adult website and magazine Perfect 10 has failed to prove to a federal appeals court that Google nearly drove it to bankruptcy by indexing and showing thumbnail images of Perfect 10’s nude...
The suit "aims to protect 9,000 Illinois small businesses," PMA noted. The Performance Marketing Association challenged the constitutionality of the Illinois law taxing products sold by affiliate marketers residing in the state, filing a lawsuit...
She first filed suit against Yahoo after conducting a search for her name and found one Yahoo spam result (possibly cloaked) that connected her name to porn and malware. The court dismissed that suit.
I like to look at is as 'The first domino has fallen', as other states are sure to follow suit. The Oklahoma state legislature in a completely sensible (and therefore somewhat baffling move for a government agency) move, has created a new law...
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...
People of all ages and nationalities raised the alarm: 24 year-old Harvard Law School student, Eva Hibnick filed a class action suit on behalf of all 31 million Gmail users and an Australian TV channel stoked the fires of controversy, by airing a...
The suit was brought forth by an internet service provider in a state with one of the greatest potential for damages. The judge threw out the case because he said the federal CAN-SPAM Act took precedent over a state law barring false commercial...
As Ars Tecnica details the suit has some flaws - Google as yet does not have an operating system, and prior art - a major factor in patent law - "constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given...
Wonder when United Airlines will weigh in with their law suit following the stock price drop last week? Google settled with a UK-based anti-abortion group who had sued them for not allowing them access to advertising for abortion keywords, the...
Italian Broadcaster Sues Google, YouTube for $779 million Posted by Nathania Johnson Jul 30, 2008 Google is facing another YouTube law suit, this time from Italian broadcaster Mediaset, which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Google is facing another YouTube law suit, this time from Italian broadcaster Mediaset, which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The suit was filed in Rome and seeks 500 million Euros in damages (approx $779 million USD).
