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What’s Next, “Google Litigator?”
For part of 2006 through the beginning of 2008, myTriggers was allegedly profitable. On February 20, 2010, the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County, Ohio in Columbus became the stage for the latest civil antitrust lawsuit against dominant Internet search engine Google. The company had initially filed suit against myTriggers.com, Inc.
JetLawBlog - Thursday, March 4, 2010
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The Devil Listens to Nirvana . . .
In December of 2008, the RIAA announced it would finally end the legal assault against consumers that began back in 2003 and has resulted in over 35,000 lawsuits. This past summer, in only the second lawsuit of its kind to go to trial, Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay four record labels a total of $675,000 in damages for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online. The decision came one day after the 25-year-old doctoral student in physics admitted in open court that he had illegally downloaded and then shared hundreds of songs through
JetLawBlog - Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Landmark Open Source Lawsuit Ends with Settlement
We blogged about that ruling when it was issued in August 2008, referring to it as "a highly significant opinion that will greatly bolster the efforts of the open source community to control the use of open source software according to the terms set out in open source licenses." A dispute between a proprietary software company and the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) open source project has ended with a settlement, the JRMI project announced on February 17. The dispute yielded a ruling in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ( Jacobsen v.
New Media and Technology Law - Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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  • RAM Copying - An Issue of More Than Transitory Duration
    4, 2008), the Second Circuit considered several important issues on the way to concluding that Cablevision's proposed operation of a remote digital video recorder (RS-DVR) system does not infringe the rights of reproduction and public performance of its program providers. July 16, 2008) (summarily concluding that a RAM copy of videogame software is a "copy"). In The Cartoon Network LP, LLP v. CSC Holdings, Inc. ,
    New Media and Technology Law - Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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  • UCC, Not Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, Governs Formation of Contract by Exchange of E-Mails
    Thyssenkrupp Materials, NA , 2008 U.S. 5, 2008). The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act was adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1999. Both the UETA and its companion federal enactment, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act , Pub.L. 109-229 (June 30, 2000) were adopted during a flurry of concern about the enforceability of electronic
    New Media and Technology Law - Monday, September 8, 2008
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  • Parker v. Search Engines, Part II: Challenge to Search Engine Caching Dismissed on Most (But Not All) Grounds
    2008 U.S. 26, 2008), the district court held that a Web site operator's failure to deploy a robots.txt file containing instructions not to copy and cache Web site content gave rise to an implied license to index that site. The issue is also touched on in a recent article, Afori, Implied License - An Emerging New Standard in Copyright Law , 25 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal (2008) The practice of search engine crawling and caching of Web site content has infrequently been litigated. (The The Perfect 10 case is a significant exception.)
    New Media and Technology Law - Thursday, October 16, 2008
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  • Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition
    13, 2008) easily goes to the top of the charts of this small category. There are so few judicial opinions dealing with open source licenses that any single one is of great interest, but the pro-open source ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Jacobsen v. Katzer , No. 2008-1001 (Fed.
    New Media and Technology Law - Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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  • DA Says Town Broke Open Meeting Law
    Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. has ruled that the Charlton, Mass., board of selectmen violated the open meeting law by meeting in private to evaluate the job performance of Town Administrator Robin Craver. The DA was acting on a complaint filed by the Telegram & Gazette , which reported the ruling in an Oct.
    Media Law - Monday, October 13, 2008
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  • Britain's "Most Complained About" Ads, 2008
    Here's a list of the "most complained about" ads in Great Britain in 200
    Media Law Prof Blog - Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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  • Judge Reprimanded for Letters to Publisher
    Murphy, SJC-10179 December 18, 2008. ...Tags: The judge who sent threatening letters to the publisher of The Boston Herald received a public reprimand today from the Supreme Judicial Court. The SJC concluded that Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy violated standards of judicial ethics when he wrote two letters to Herald Publisher Patrick J.
    Media Law - Thursday, December 18, 2008
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  • Appellate Watch: Are Domain Names "Property" That Can Be Seized Under State Forfeiture Laws?
    16, 2008), a Kentucky trial court ruled that Kentucky courts of general jurisdiction have subject matter and in rem jurisdiction over civil forfeiture proceedings seeking seizure of domain names through which illegal gambling was conducted in Kentucky. UPDATE: There is a brief account of the oral argument on the pokerlistings.com Web site . That's the interesting issue that a Kentucky appeals court will consider on Friday in an interlocutory appeal from the ruling of a Kentucky trial court.
    New Media and Technology Law - Thursday, December 11, 2008
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  • We've Been Saying This For Years: The Part About "We Are All Going To Be 'Mixed Source'"
    CNET's Ina Fried late yesterday posted an interview with Horacio Gutierrez, deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and licensing at Microsoft, in which he declares that the "war between proprietary and open source is a thing of the past." quot; That statement is going to get a lot of press, and a lot of comment, as will other statements in the interview. Gutierrez
    New Media and Technology Law - Friday, October 17, 2008
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  • Free Software Foundation Files First Copyright Infringement Complaint to Enforce its GNU Licenses
    The Free Software Foundation has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Cisco Systems. The complaint alleges that Cisco's Linksys products contain certain works in which the FSF holds the copyright, but Cisco has not complied with the requirements of the licenses pursuant to which the FSF makes the works available. This This is the first copyright infringement action ever filed by the FSF, according to the press release announcing the filing of the action.
    New Media and Technology Law - Monday, December 15, 2008
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