Arizona Republic: “A Beverly Hills-based gossip website has been hit with an $11 million judgment for libel and slander after posting false accusations about a northern Kentucky teacher who sidelines as a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader.” The website is thedirty.com owned by Dirty World Entertainment Recordings, which got its start in Scottsdale, [...]
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Los Angeles Times: “A false sense of Internet security can mean legal quagmires for critics who are careless about facts. . . . Although bloggers may have a free-speech right to say what they want online, courts have found that they are not protected from being sued for their comments, even if [...] Findlaw: “In this column, I’ll focus not on the CDA holding dismissing Facebook as a defendant, but instead on the subsequent decision dismissing the defamation claim against the teenagers who posted to the Facebook group, and thus ending the case. I’ll argue that the judge did the right thing in dismissing the [...] Wired: “A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is ‘unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and [...] Cnet News: “The halcyon days of tax-free Internet shopping will, if Rep. Bill Delahunt gets his way, soon be coming to an abrupt end. Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a bill on Thursday that would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the option for many Americans [...] David S. Ardia has written an excellent and comprehensive law review article about the all-important Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The article is entitled “Free Speech Savior or Shield for Scoundrels: An Empirical Study of Intermediary Immunity Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.“ It is a must read [...] Techworld: “A US Senate committee has approved a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill that some critics have suggested would give the US president the authority to shut down parts of the Internet during a cyberattack.” Recent North Carolina law school graduate Daniel Cowan’s law review article is entitled “New York’s Unconstitutional Tax on the Internet: Amazon.com v. New York State Department of Taxation & Finance and the Dormant Commerce Clause.” The law reveiw’s abstract is: As the current economic downturn continues to ripple through every [...] The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “A federal bankruptcy court in Texas became one of the first to find that individuals can be held liable for linking to defamatory blog posts earlier this year. The court in In re Perry held that an individual’s e-mail opened him up to a [...] Los Angeles Times: “A woman who locked her son out of his Facebook account and posted vulgarities and other items on it was convicted . . . of misdemeanor harassment and ordered not to have contact with the teenager.” Wired: “A former Pennsylvania high school student has sued school and county officials for damages in a controversial sexting case. . . . The complaint alleges that officials had no probable cause to seize and search her phone, and violated her privacy and her right to free expression by punishing her for [...] Freep.com: “A Western Michigan University student is giving a Kalamazoo towing company a costly lesson in customer service and the power of the Internet. After getting nowhere with the company and paying $118 to get his car back, Kurtz created a Facebook page, “Kalamazoo Residents Against T&J Towing,” which has attracted more [...] LTN Law Technology News: “Privacy rights still colliding with business interests and obligations. In today’s fast-paced world, both employers and employees have turned to technology to increase efficiency and stay connected. But, as more employers have given internet access to employees and permitted personal use of company-owned equipment and communications networks, they [...] New York Times: “The battle of ideas has started between the advocates of a universal and open Internet — based on freedom of expression, tolerance and respect for privacy — against those who want to transform the Internet into a multitude of closed-off spaces that serve the purposes of repressive regimes, propaganda [...] Wall St. Journal: “Advertisers and Internet companies have been scrambling to head off regulation they say will hamper growth of online advertising. The pressure is expected to build Tuesday as lawmakers prepare to announce proposed privacy legislation.” Wall St. Journal: “Advertisers and Internet companies have been scrambling to head off regulation they say will hamper growth of online advertising. The pressure is expected to build Tuesday as lawmakers prepare to announce proposed privacy legislation.” A New Jersey court ruled that Shellee Hale who was sued for defamation for comments she posted on a blog about the plaintiff is not a journalist shielded from lawsuits by New Jersey’s journalist shield law. Professor Orin Kerr examines a recent case where the court answered the question posed above in the affirmative. The case is United States v. Durdley. Professor Kerr says, “I haven’t seen any cases quite like this, but I tend to think the decision is wrong. In this post, I wanted to explain [...] From the was that wrong department: A 16 year old boy alleges in charges filed against his mother, Denise New, that mom hacked into his Facebook account, changed his password and wrote defamatory material about him. The kid is asking for a no contact order from the court. Mom says she [...] cnet news: “The next friend request you receive might come from the FBI. The Obama administration has considered sending federal police undercover on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. A confidential U.S. Department of Justice presentation (PDF) on social-networking sites made public Tuesday said online undercover work can help agents ‘communicate [...] In the continuation of a long battle, Verizon filed suit against Cablevision for infringing two DVR-related patents. Verizon took this action after previously offering to license the patents to Cablevision, a typical course of events for a patent dispute. As has become increasingly common in recent years, Verizon filed this suit with the U.S. [...] The USPTO denied Google’s NEXUS ONE trademark for smartphones. The USPTO decided that this mark was confusingly similar to a NEXUS mark owned by Integra Telecom. Integra Telecom sells T1 internet equipment and related voice products to the tune of $60 million a year. Presumably, Google will fight this decision. But it need not [...] New York Times has a story about a study called “Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy” by Meeyoung Cha and Hamed Haddadi and Fabricio Benevenuto and Krishna P. Gummadi. The NYT article says: “The conclusion? Those with the largest number of followers may be “popular” Twitterers, but [...] A lawyer discusses what happened when something or somebody sent an email message to hundreds or perhaps thousands of people that said the law firm intended to file a lawsuit against the recipient. The email said: March 12, 2010 Crosby & Higgins 350 Broadway, Suite 300 New York, NY 10013 To Whom [...] E-Commerce Law: “the United States District Court for the District of Arizona dismissed a defamation complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction where the defendant published on a website an allegedly defamatory article about the plaintiffs, who reside in Arizona. . . . the Arizona court was unable to exercise specific personal jurisdiction [...] San Francisco Chronicle: “A judge has awarded a San Francisco attorney $7,000 in damages in a rare trial under California’s anti-spam law – $1,000 for each unsolicited, misleading commercial e-mail he received. The ads violated California’s 2004 anti-spam law . . . . [that] prohibits sending an uninvited commercial e-mail from California, [...] Gizmodo: “One day, you’re going to die. And when you do, you online presence—like your social network profiles, your blog comments, and your web services—will serve as your very first memorial. Here’s how it’ll play out. . . . And Facebook knows this. They’ve got a healthy help section for the bereaved, [...] |
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