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...
Any court case arguing that Google must not add to the search engine stories which mention the untrue allegations will be reportable: for court cases and evidence are reportable under privilege. Because he is a public figure, the chance of his...
In some cases, they must consider local laws and may be facing down a court order, even if complying seems like participating in censorship. Over the weekend, data was released for the period of July to December 2011, showing a total of 467 court...
The $1 billion Viacom-YouTube copyright case was reopened by an appeals court. In March 2011, a United States court for the Ninth Circuit (California) ruled in the case of Network Automation, Inc.v. Under Australian law, the court could not levy a...
All your data will be held by your Identity Provider free to do with that data what they wish or even if they don't wish, a court can order it handed over. This means that if someone sues you, if someone you know is sued, if the government wants to...
In the most recent case, settled in a French court in November, he only walked away with £6000 despite asking for £180,000 in damages. So.a court decided it wasn’t right for News of the World to label the orgy “Nazi” in nature.
Data that can all be obtained by subpoena without your knowledge for court cases, legal actions or sneak and peeks which are part of the USA PATRIOT Act. Did you know that because your car license is not in a place of expected privacy there are...
The Supreme Court of Canada’s widely anticipated ruling on the Crookes v. The Supreme Court, in their ruling, found that hyperlinks cannot be subjected to the same laws that govern traditional publication.
While this ruling specified that an additional court ruling was needed to determine the extent of the violations from Ms likely that at least some violations will be cited in this case. Interflora is now seeking damages for those violations in a...
While the court cases have been dragged out and haven't resulted in many large financial penalties for Google, almost all cases have resulted in a manual alteration in the autocomplete fields. Two separate French cases that resulted in Google...
Part of the problem is that individually, transactions are so small that they are not worth fighting over- and this is the biggest reason why so few major court cases (though there have been some rather notable ones) appear involving Second Life...
The district court was faced with the issue of whether Network Automation's usage of ActiveBatch in AdWords was legal. Buying ads based on a competitor's name doesn't violate trademark law, a court has ruled, overturning a lawsuit over AdWords and...
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Wilcox cautions that trademark cases can typically be more complicated than with other types of intellectual property cases to get monetary compensation (including your attorney's fees), and may even require the involvement of legal and...
The way we will see a resolution is that a case could get to the Supreme Court, which would take years," says Goldman. That also means the search engines won't get involved in cases of trademark infringement in organic search results.
We had a few lawsuits in that last few years, and I think the search marketers are going to be gunning for ways to get the algorithmic decisions under court scrutiny, rather than solely under the decision of the search engines.
But in the same respect, there are very few clear, legal decisions on some of these boundaries, because the technology keeps changing so fast, and it takes years for these court cases to wind their ways through the system to get to opinions that...
While registration of a copyright is not a requirement for legal protection of a work, it is highly recommended should one find themselves in the position of attempting to collect damages from the infringer, not to mention court costs and attorney...
However, if someone is upset at your company for starving Malaysian children and making them assemble shoes while dodging poisonous snakes, free speech will definitely be an issue in a court of law. The most common legal theories used in PPC cases...
The settlement, following what seems a similar settlement with AP earlier this year, seems to open the door that Google is going to continue making such appeasements rather than fight cases in court.
