January 2010 Quick Links

…– American Airlines Sues Yahoo for Selling Keyword Advertising * Duplicity alert! Rescuecom is in court defending its keyword ads triggered by competitor Best Buy’s TMs. * Bev Stayart sues…

47 USC 230 Year-in-Review for 2009

…got an easy reversal on appeal. The Stayart court granted Yahoo an easy defense win, although co-defendant Various didn’t get the 230 ruling. Similarly, the Barnes case granted the defense…

Yahoo’s Search Results Snippets Aren’t False Endorsement–Stayart v. Yahoo

By Eric Goldman Stayart v. Yahoo! Inc., 2009 WL 2840478 (E.D. Wis. Aug. 28, 2009) Earlier this year, I blogged about Beverly Stayart’s quixotic lawsuit against Yahoo and others for…

Yahoo/Overture Sued for Search Results Snippets Containing Plaintiff’s Name–Stayart v. Yahoo

…remarkable is that Bev Stayart claims she is the only “Bev Stayart” and “Beverly Stayart” on the Internet (para. 19), and it appears that she would like to keep it…