Republishing MySpace Post in Local Paper Might Be Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress–Moreno v. Hanford Sentinel
…editor under Moreno’s full name. The community response to the published essay was severe; according to the court, “Appellants received death threats and a shot was fired at the family…
The Third Wave of Internet Exceptionalism
…Internet exceptionalism, but instead of favoring the Internet, regulators treated the Internet more harshly than analogous offline activity. For example, in 2005, a Texas website called Live-shot.com announced that it…
Principal Loses Lawsuit Against Students and Parents Over Fake MySpace Page–Draker v. Schreiber
…dismissed. As a parting shot, however, one of the judges issued a stinging concurrence, blasting the students for “outrageous” conduct and admonishing that the “school children of this state should…
PLI Presentation on Social Networking Sites and Blogs
By Eric Goldman Last week I gave a brief overview talk about social networking sites and blogs at a PLI conference. My slides. For each screen shot, you’ll have to…
Oct.-Nov. 2007 Quick Links, Part 1
…corrected with a double shot of quick links covering October and November: Wikipedia * Slashdot: Has Wikipedia peaked? If true, I’m not surprised. * The new status symbol of the…
July 2007 Quick Links, Part I
…(S.D.Cal. April 13, 2007). Oh man, what a crazy lawsuit. Freelancer takes product shot of hotel and licenses photo to hotel. Hotel then provides photo to third party websites (such…
Top Cyberspace IP Cases of 2005
…In this decision, Judge Patel shot down the third theory. The record companies relied primarily on the Fourth Circuit’s 1997 decision in Hotaling v. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day…
U.T. v. Longhornsingles.com Part 2 – state email filtering
…servers are designed to deliver mail, complaints about overloading shouldn’t be rubber stamped, but require inspection, the court says, taking a shot at the opinions in eBay, Inc. v. Bidder’s…
Specht v. Netscape–What Happened After the 2nd Circuit Remand?
…data * issusing a new version of the software (which is still online; I use the screen shot of this page in class to show how Netscape converted the page…
Copyright Office Struggles With Copyright Clearances
…the night Lincoln was shot and a video of Henry Ford winning a car race in 1901. If this was the “oddest” material the researchers could find in the vaults,…