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...
Legal experts speculate that at least in the U.S. More Google Autocomplete Legal Battles In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must restrict information in its autocomplete when it violates personal rights.
How to cut a vein" is the (paraphrased) title of a video that sparked a legal suit between Google, its subsidiary YouTube and Russian governing bodies. In February, Google filed an appeal in Russia to challenge the censorship of a YouTube video...
In fact, link building is still legal (the referenced post was +1'ed by Google's John Mueller), you just have to go about it the right way. Perhaps you have been doing guest posting for a while. Regardless of what you may have read about the next...
Know your clients and know what they and their legal departments would see as acceptable. The approach you used two years ago to builds links is most likely drastically different than the approach you take now.
As we've gathered and released more data over time, it's become increasingly clear that the scope of government attempts to censor content on Google services has grown," wrote Google legal director Susan Infantino in a blog post.
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 years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
When you start talking anything mobile, social, etc.your marketing team will say you need to do one thing, and communications will say, no, let's do another thing, and legal will say, actually we need to do something else.
By committing to a group of fixes, Google aims to avoid paying out a massive EU fine and facing greater legal action. Google has been barraged with legal complaints over the years. Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified...
Few legal teams are concerned with earning valuable backlinks for a business line of goods or services. The story of the blind men and the elephant is a widely known Indian parable that was brought to Europe in the 19th century by the poet John...
On March 29, Google filed a petition to set aside a legal process. Kevan Fornasero, a lawyer for Google said in the filing that petitions "filed under Section 3511 of Title 18 to set aside legal process issued under Section 2709 of Title 18 must be...
The FBI has the authority to prohibit companies from talking about these requests," wrote Richard Salgado, legal director of Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google. Google has released figures on the number of requests to turn over data...
For each tactic, brainstorm possible implementation outcomes and factors – both good and bad.e.g.social shares, web traffic, comments, testimonies, user-generated content, leads, support costs, legal considerations, etc.
Since Yahoo signed the 10-year deal with Microsoft back in 2009, Mayer's legal team will have to go through the deal with a fine-toothed comb to see how the company can make changes it believes will give it a better chance against Google.
SafeAuto created its YouTube channel, Legal For Less, on June 17, 2008. Can an insurance company use crowdsourcing to take a function typically performed by an ad agency and outsource it to an undefined (and fairly large) network of people in the...
Stay nimble: While we can plan until our heart’s content with editorial calendars and legal approvals, savvy brands recognize the need to work on the fly and stray away from the planned content as needed.
Schmidt postulates that tech companies will have to start investing in bigger and stronger legal departments to litigate all the lawsuits that are sure to arise over protection of information and intellectual property.
To be seen as a success, any settlement must include specific measures to restore competition and allow other parties to compete effectively on a level playing field," said David Wood, ICOMP legal counsel.
David Drummond, Google SVP and chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post that the company receives dozens of requests a day from government agencies seeking users' account information. Drummond explained that when Google is able to, it notifies...
Google is facing some delayed legal action in the UK over having tracked iPhone and Safari users without their knowledge. Twelve plaintiffs have banded together in the UK to file a lawsuit against Google, which could open Google to damage payments...
