Utah Bans Keyword Advertising [Updated]
…preempted by 47 USC 230. Last week, the Ninth Circuit in Perfect 10 v. CCBill held that 47 USC 230 preempted all state IP claims, including state TM laws. Online…
Ninth Circuit Opinion in Perfect 10 v. CCBill
By Eric Goldman Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, No. 04-57143, 04-57207 (9th Cir. March 29, 2007) The Ninth Circuit issued an important but characteristically quirky opinion in Perfect 10…
Google Loses Belgium Copyright Case–Google v. Copiepresse
…Thus, we can string together this case and the Perfect 10 decision from a year ago and show that at least 2 judges have voted that Google crossed the line….
Top Cyberlaw Developments of 2006
…to say. I’ll see you in 2007!] For several years, we have developed a list of the top 10 Internet IP cases in the previous year (see the 2005 list)….
Can 512(f) Support an Injunction? Novotny v. Chapman
…copyright law that would hold either PayPal or DivX liable for Novotny’s infringement (compare the awful Perfect 10 v. Cybernet case with the Perfect 10 v. ccBill and Perfect 10…
Fall 2006 Cyberlaw Syllabus
…statute to the reader: * the Lamparello case (which I actually substituted in last year after I prepared my 2005 syllabus) * Perfect 10 v. Google and Field v. Google….
Amazon’s Display of Book Cover Doesn’t Violate Publicity Rights—Almeida v. Amazon.com
…was an interesting ruling because 47 USC 230 doesn’t preempt “intellectual property claims,” so the question arises—is a publicity rights claim an IP claim? A precedential case (Perfect 10 v….
More on Perfect 10 v. Google
…the Internet. Perfect 10 alleges that Google (and, in a separate suit, Amazon.com) has directly, vicariously and contributorily infringed Perfect 10’s copyrights in 1000’s of pictures of models that third…
Perfect 10 Wins Injunction Against Google
By Eric Goldman Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., CV 04-9484 AMH (C.D. Cal. Feb. 17, 2006) A major new ruling in the running battle over search engines and copyrights–this time…
Keep on Suin’–Crumb v. Amazon
…real risk is from the small-time copyright owners–the Kellys or the Perfect 10s of the world. They have a lot less reputation to lose by suing, they are often meticulous…