By John Ottaviani The Free Software Foundation posted draft 3 of GPL3 on its website today. The General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used open source licenses. Version 1 was released in 1981, and Version 2…
By John Ottaviani Various sources are reporting that EMI has agreed to settle its copyright infringement lawsuit against Bertelsmann AG related to Bertelsmann’s investment in Napster. The settlement removes the last large record label with claims against Bertelsmann in the…
By Eric Goldman Twentieth Century Fox Films Corp. v. Cablevision Systems Corp., No. 06-Civ. 03390 (SDNY March 22, 2007) Not infrequently, copyright defendants argue that they are offering a service that passively implements consumer directions to infringe. In some cases,…
By Eric Goldman In re Miva, Inc. Securities Litigation, 2007 WL 809686 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 15, 2007) Stockholders of Miva (formerly FindWhat) sued Miva, alleging that Miva had inflated its stock price by making false public statements. In this ruling,…
By Eric Goldman I gave a talk to a group of local entrepreneurs on general IP issues in the process of being an entrepreneur. For most of you, this talk is very, very basic, but if you’re interested, here are…
By Eric Goldman KinderStart.com LLC v. Google, Inc., C 06-2057 JF (N.D. Cal. March 16, 2007) Copy of the opinion dismissing the lawsuit Copy of the opinion granting sanctions against KinderStart’s counsel Gregory Yu Google has won big in the…
By Eric Goldman Person v. Google, C 06-7297 JF (RS) (N.D. Cal. Mar. 16, 2007) As expected, Judge Fogel dismissed Person’s antitrust lawsuit against Google but gave Person one more chance to refile a complaint. It would be foolish for…
By Eric Goldman Payday Advance Plus, Inc. v. Findwhat.com, Inc., 2007 WL 760437 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 12, 2007) The high-profile click fraud lawsuits against Google and Yahoo settled last summer, but other lesser-known lawsuits appear to be in the pipeline, such…
By Eric Goldman Korb v. Maxmedia, Inc., 2007 WL 734423 (E.D. Mich. Mar. 9, 2007) I rarely blog on domain name disputes for two reasons. First, there are too many of them, and each one tends to look like the…
By John Ottaviani Can a spider enter into a binding contract when the terms and conditions on the website declare that copying or distributing anything on the site indicates an agreement to or acceptance of terms, and the spider copies…