At last, Creative Commons debuts on Monday, December 16. The website is a project of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, and is designed to show writers, artists, and other publishers of copyrighted material different and creative ways of protecting their intellectual property.
If I wander too far down this IP road, I’ll get lost…
I was trying to find some time to read all the articles on this week’s decision on jurisdiction for Internet libel, but it’s just not there. It’s a little scary, but not really surprising, that eventually a court somewhere would drag a defendant halfway across the world to defend its Internet postings.
For those…
Have you ever received a pop-up that looked suspiciously like an alert from your own company, warning you about potential security problems? Chances are that pop-up was from a company called Bonzi, now the subject of a class-action lawsuit.
The California Supreme Court will soon hear an appeal of a lower court decision that a disgruntled former employee’s constant e-mails to his former co-workers constitutes actionable trespass. Check out this brief summary from LawMeme.
SearchKing, which recently sued Google for decreasing the company’s PageRanking, will continue with its lawsuit despite the fact that its search rank appears to have been restored.
I reported back on October 22 that a Florida federal court had ruled against a blind man’s claim that the Southwest Airlines website violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because it was not accessible to him. This week, Writ’s Anita Ramasastry suggests that the Florida court got it wrong, and that the ADA does…
A federal judge in Florida has already ruled in a case against Southwest Airlines that I first mentioned October 8. The judge ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not apply to the Internet, and dismissed the lawsuit against Southwest. The judge ruled that since Congress was so careful to specifically define the…
SearchKing, a search engine and web hosting service, is suing Google, and it’s just dying to tell you this; not only did it issue a press release on its website, it also posted the summons, complaint, and motion for preliminary injunction. The lawsuit it based on SearchKing’s placement of text…
In a case that seems to be dragging on forever, the Ninth Circuit issued yet another ruling in the case of Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.. Konop, a former pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, was unhappy with the labor negotiations going on between his union and the air carrier. He set up his own…
In a decision posted last week by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in the case In re Pharmatrak, Inc. Privacy Litigation, the court ruled that Pharmatrak’s collection of personal data about the Plaintiffs did not violate any state or federal laws. Pharmatrak contracted with several pharmaceutical defendants (including Pfizer, SmithKline,…
