Court Orders Production of Five Years’ Worth of Facebook and MySpace Posts – Thompson v. Autoliv
…materials should not be discoverable, then the parties shall submit the material to the court for review along with their arguments as to discoverability. Defense counsel shall return the storage…
Users Can’t Sue Sony for Changing Online Terms to Require Arbitration – Fineman v. Sony Network Entertainment
…revised its EULA in September 2011 requiring PlayStation 3 users to choose between agreeing to submit dispute to arbitration (on an individual basis) or foregoing the right to access the…
Banning Sex Offenders from Social Networking Sites is Unconstitutional–Doe v. Jindal
…(The names of these laws reflect common legislative tricks to speed passage and suppress opposition). Collectively, these two laws require sex offenders to submit their online aliases into a database…
Egregious/Overreaching Ex Parte Orders for Rightsowners Keep Coming — Deckers and Richemont
…December 23 and, as of January 3, 2012, they did not submit any papers in objection. The injunction is similar in scope to the TRO. It contains a broad account…
TheDirty Denied 47 USC 230 Immunity–Jones v. Dirty World
…appeal, which thedirty has already promised. You may recall thedirty encourages users to submit third party gossip, typically about women, along with a photo of the gossip subject. Nik, thedirty’s…
Did a Court Eliminate 512(h) Subpoenas?–Maximized Living v. Google
…case. Maximized Living sells copyrighted material to chiropractors. Anonymous blogger Doe allegedly infringed Maximized Living’s copyrights via a Blogspot blog post. Maximized Living submitted an apparently overbroad 512(h) subpoena request…
Court Awards Damages for Wrongful Disruption of Web Presence — Ordonez v. Icon Sky Holdings
…that Ordonez was the senior user, and submitted a specimen that wasn’t really a specimen (it was the exact same specimen which George submitted for another trademark application, but appeard…
Employers Demanding the Right to Remotely Wipe Employees’ Phones?
…for work at all. In other words, they allow the employee to use their personal phones for work purposes, but require that they submit to searches and remote wiping. Not…
October 2011 Quick Links
…Supplemental briefing requested in Viacom v. YouTube: The parties are hereby ordered to submit letter briefs, not exceeding ten pages doublespaced, on the following questions: (1) whether and how the…
District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss on Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Claim — Airfx.com v. AirFX LLC
…AirFX was required to submit to jurisdiction over a subsequent challenge to the UDRP in “either the location of the registrar’s office or where plaintiffs are located.” The registrar (GoDaddy)…