Court Rejects Bizarre Attempt To Scrub Consumer Review–Goren v. Ripoff Report
…the court turned to the bogus “clickwrap”/”browsewrap” distinction, citing Nguyen. The court explains why the user agreement wasn’t a clickthrough agreement: The terms accompanying the checkbox do not state that…
The “Browsewrap”/”Clickwrap” Distinction Is Falling Apart
…first place. ____ Eric’s Comments: From a nomenclature standpoint, the Ninth Circuit’s 2014 Nguyen case was a train wreck. The court didn’t understand the differences between a browsewrap and a…
Top 10 Internet Law Developments of 2014 (Forbes Cross-Post)
…Jobs from Ill-Advised Social Media Posts. The advice remains the same: post in haste, repent at leisure (but probably without unemployment insurance). * Browsewraps Are Vexing Courts. Most of the…
Lawsuit Fails Over Ridesharing Service’s Disclosures To Its Analytics Service–Garcia v. Zimride
…“browsewrap agreement”. The court does not make a finding as to whether or not the consent (in the privacy policy) was legally effective in all cases, but says that plaintiff…
Safeway Can’t Unilaterally Modify Online Terms Without Notice
…Related posts: * What’s a Browsewrap? The Ninth Circuit Sure Doesn’t Know–Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble * 23andMe’s Browsewrap Fails, But Its Post-Purchase Clickthrough Works Anyway–Tompkins v. 23andMe * Court…
LinkedIn Can’t Shake Publicity Rights Claims Based on Reminder Emails
…LinkedIn, 13-CV-04303-LHK (N.D. Cal. Nov. 13, 2014) Related Posts: Email Harvesting: Repeated Emails From LinkedIn May Violate Publicity Rights Path May Be Liable for Text-Spamming Users’ Contact Lists Facebook’s “Browsewrap”…
What’s a Browsewrap? The Ninth Circuit Sure Doesn’t Know–Nguyen v. Barnes & Noble
…weren’t enforcing browsewraps, they were enforcing clickthroughs. What will it take to convince you that we should retire the clickwrap/browsewrap language? If you use the browsewrap term regularly in any…
23andMe’s Browsewrap Fails, But Its Post-Purchase Clickthrough Works Anyway–Tompkins v. 23andMe
…“terms of service” containing an arbitration clause, and so it claimed its users were bound to those terms. Judge Koh accurately characterizes this as a “browsewrap” argument and rejects the…
Email Harvesting: Repeated Emails From LinkedIn May Violate Publicity Rights
…that platform.] Case citation: Perkins v. LinkedIn, 2014 WL 2751053 (N.D. Cal. June 10, 2014) Related posts: Path May Be Liable for Text-Spamming Users’ Contact Lists Facebook’s “Browsewrap” Enforced Against…
Court Rules That Kids Can Be Bound By Facebook’s Member Agreement
…– I.B. v. Facebook Minors’ Suit Over Facebook Credits Survives in Part – I.B. v. Facebook Facebook’s “Browsewrap” Enforced Against Kids–EKD v. Facebook. Parents’ Lawsuit Against Apple for In-App Purchases…