EA Faces Uphill Battle in Its Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Zynga (Partial Forbes Cross-Post)
…protection is a tricky endeavor. Let’s take a careful look at the different overlapping copyright interests in a game like Social Sims: Code. The software code for a game is…
CA Court Confirms that Pineda v Williams-Sonoma (the Zip-Code-as-PII Case) Applies Retrospectively — Dardarian v. OfficeMax
…City and Thoms held that zip-codes are not personal information (and were effectively overruled in Pineda) the court says that OfficeMax did not start collecting zip-code information based on these…
H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 2 (Copyright)
…knockoff movies that “draft” off Hollywood blockbusters. * NYT on rampant copying of gameplay among apps. * If you buy a DVD that includes a code to download the movie,…
Judge Koh Whittles Down iPhone App Privacy Lawsuit – In re iPhone Application Litig.
…current whereabouts, unique device identifier, gender, age, zip code, and time zone) from plaintiffs and tracked them. Judge Koh granted the bulk of defendants’ motion to dismiss with prejudice in…
Plaintiffs Squeak Past Motion to Dismiss in Amazon P3P Case – Del Vecchio v. Amazon
…that challenged Amazon’s alleged failure to respect the P3P protocol. P3P allows websites to summarize their privacy policies in machine readable code so that web browsers could be configured to…
Java APIs Aren’t Copyrightable–Oracle v. Google (Guest Blog Post)
…Google did; they wrote their own source code to implement the same functions contained in Oracle’s APIs. The judge is correct that this is perfectly lawful. Second, if there is…
First Circuit Rejects Data Insecurity Claims on the Basis of Article III Standing–Katz v Pershing
…unauthorized access of the plaintiff’s data. There’s not a whole lot to add. Data security plaintiffs have tried to crack the code in a variety of different ways, but courts…
Facebook Post and Blog Entry About Judicial Endorsement Held to be Defamatory — Lewis v. Rapp
…violation of the seventh canon of the NC Code of Judicial conduct[,] [w]e are clearly into dirty politics. In response to this post, Lewis’s lawyer emailed Rapp and advised that…
Comments on the Ninth Circuit’s En Banc Ruling in U.S. v. Nosal
…business’s high frequency trading system. Prior to leaving Goldman, he transferred a chunk of the source code that he had developed while at Goldman. The Second Circuit sets aside his…