A New Way to Bypass 47 USC 230? Default Injunctions and FRCP 65
By Eric Goldman I recently got the following email from David Gingras, the relatively new General Counsel of the Ripoff Report (reposted with his permission): ________ “As you know, Ripoff Report has defended, and won, a lot of CDA cases…
Google AdWords Litigation Keeps Rolling In–Parts Geek v. US Auto Parts
By Eric Goldman Parts Geek LLC v. US Auto Parts Network Inc.,3:2009cv05578 (D.N.J. complaint filed Nov. 2, 2009) [warning: 3MB PDF]. The Justia page. In my world, we have an honor code among geeks–thou shalt not harm other geeks. As…
Law Professor Sues Over ‘Above the Law’ Blog Posts–Jones v. Minkin
By Eric Goldman Jones v. Minkin, 1:09-cv-23256-MGC (S.D. Fla. complaint filed Oct. 27, 2009). The Above the Law blog post on the lawsuit with links to the posts in question. Given its history of provocative and occasionally aggressive blog posts,…
October 2009 Quick Links
By Eric Goldman Just a reminder that I am posting most of these types of links exclusively to my Twitter feed. * Tricome v. eBay, Inc., 2009 WL 3365873 (E.D.Pa. Oct 19, 2009). Court upholds eBay user agreement’s venue selection…
Internet Obscenity Conviction Requires Assessment of National Community Standards–US v. Kilbride
By Eric Goldman U.S. v. Kilbride, 2009 WL 3448360 (9th Cir. Oct. 28, 2009) Jeffrey Kilbride and James Schaffer were porn spammers, operating through Ganymede Marketing, a Mauritian company. I previously blogged on their case in 2007. Their spam failed…
Zittrain on the Dark Sides of Crowdsourcing
By Eric Goldman Last week, Cyberlaw expert/rock star Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School (visiting at Stanford Law School this term) spoke as part of SCU’s lecture series on IT, Ethics and Law. An overflow crowd of over 100 people…
Google AdWords Litigation Updates–Google Adds One Lawsuit and Ends Another
By Eric Goldman It’s been a little quiet on the Google AdWords trademark litigation front in the past couple of months, so it’s timely to check in on the situation. Jurin v. Google, Inc., 2:09-at-01695 (E.D. Cal. complaint filed Oct….
Facebook Not Liable for Private User Groups Per 230–Finkel v. Facebook
By Eric Goldman Finkel v. Facebook, Inc., 2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 32248 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Sept. 15, 2009) This is a really interesting legal dispute with an entirely predictable outcome for Facebook as a defendant. See my initial blog post…
Craigslist Isn’t Liable for Erotic Services Ads–Dart v. Craigslist
By Eric Goldman Dart v. Craigslist, Inc., 09 C 1385 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2009) Yesterday, Judge John F. Grady of the Northern District of Illinois federal court dismissed Cook County Sheriff Dart’s lawsuit against Craigslist for user-posted advertisements in…
DePaul Reputation Talk Slides
By Eric Goldman Last week I presented on my long-running Economics of Reputational Information project once again–this time at a DePaul conference on cyberlaw. I titled the talk “A Tale of Two Reputation Systems” and approached it as a comparative…