On May 11, 2022, the Fifth Circuit reinstated Texas state law HB 20 which allows private parties to sue tech platforms with 50M+ MAUs for their censorship of user-generated content based on “the viewpoint of a user or another person”. On May 13, technology lobbying groups NetChoice and the Computer...
Author: Matt Kellogg
Google recently reached a settlement agreement with the authors and publishers who in 2005 sued the company for copyright infringement. As part of the arrangement, copyright owners will not only receive fees from Google for the use of digitized copies of their books in Google...
Author: Matt Kellogg
At trial, the plaintiffs sought to prove that the defendant, a single mother in Duluth, had willfully infringed 24 of the plaintiffs' recordings by downloading and distributing them via the peer-to-peer program Kazaa. Finding that the defendant had infringed, the jury awarded...
Author: Morgan Galland
Defendants, Jon Chaffee, Amy Chaffee and Ramalda Bou ("Chaffee"), appealed a summary judgment decision of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island holding that defendants violated the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. § 553(a)(1), and...
Author: Stuart Loh
The plaintiff, Stephanie Lenz, posted a 29-second video clip on YouTube of her children dancing to the Prince song “Let’s Go Crazy.” Universal, the copyright holder of that song, issued a DMCA takedown notice with which YouTube complied. Lenz believed that her otherwise...
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich
Jeffrey Hill and Lisa Hill brought suit against Stubhub, an online marketplace for reselling tickets, after purchasing four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert for $149 each. The face value printed on the tickets turned out to be only $56—a 152%...
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado
Io produces, markets, and distributes adult entertainment products. In its lawsuit against Veoh, it maintained that a variety of its copyrighted videos had been uploaded and viewed on veoh.com without prior authorization. Io did not inform Veoh of the presence of...
The German blogsphere is buzzing about the new opinion handed down by a court in Hamburg, finding Google’s image search infringing. The court agreed with the copyright holder of comics images, and held that the unauthorized display of the images as thumbnails on the search result pages violated his...
Not all campaign controversies fill the national stage. But this one should get national attention for being so abusive.
Mark Blanchfield is challenging George Amedore for his New York state assembly seat. Last week, Blanchfield released political ads that include excerpts of an interview Amedore...
Many have worried about the role of intermediaries who provide platforms for sharing information and expression on the internet, and their sometimes profound power to make content disappear. But here is an example of one intermediary -- a big and very important one -- that did the right thing.
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I write in href="http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Opinion/Avoiding-Web-Rocks-and-Shoals/">this month’s CIO Insight about the 9th Circuit’s en banc decision in the Roommates.com case. This important decision tested the limits of immunity for information service providers (in this case, the operator of a...