LimeWire Smacked Down for Inducing Copyright Infringement–Arista Records v. Lime Group
By Eric Goldman Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, 2010 WL 1914816 (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2010) This is one of the rare cases where the news reports mostly got…
FTC Drops Investigation of Advertiser Who Gave Gifts to Bloggers
…their scrutiny of blogs and not other media. Therefore, investigations like these are over-inclusive or under-inclusive–either the FTC should be going after print and broadcast reporters for undisclosed free gifts,…
FTC Endorsement and Testimonials Guidelines Notes from SMX West
…which irritated him. When Lennon released “I am the Walrus,” which was a compilation of three different song ideas each with nonsense lyrics, he reportedly said “Let the fuckers work…
230 Protects Newspaper from Liability for Reader Comments–Collins v. Purdue
…student, Wade Steffey, was reported missing and last seen on Jan. 12. (Months later, Steffey was discovered dead on campus–as far as I can tell, his death still has not…
eBay Mostly Beats Tiffany in the Second Circuit, but False Advertising Claims Remanded
…“sizeable proportion”? The parties did not agree on the exact amount of counterfeiting taking place, and Tiffany’s expert report was partially discredited by the trial judge. Does this mean we’re…
Craigslist Wins $1.3M Default Judgment Against Autoposting Facilitator — craigslist v. Naturemarket
[Post by Venkat] craigslist, Inc. v. Naturemarket, Inc., Case No. C 08-05065 PJH (MEJ) (N.D. Cal. March 5, 2010) [scribd] (report and recommendation adopted on February 5, 2010) Craigslist obtained…
Utah Passes Nation’s First (?) Bioprospecting Regulation
…bill got such a clean financial report. Given the Utah legislature’s sensitivity to costs, I bet a more thoughtful fiscal report would have slowed (and probably scuttled) the bill’s passage….
Crowdsourced Ads May Not Be Protected by 47 USC 230–Subway v. Quiznos
…of more recent—and more thoughtful—cases, including the multiple Ripoff Report cases that have expressly and implicitly rejected the MCW case. A more natural citation would have been the Roommates.com case,…
February 2010 Quick Links
…of investigative reporting in media such as cable television, documentary journalism-both televisions and movies-internet reporting and blogging, the need for protection remains the same. Whether Hornblum was writing a book,…
Forwarding Defamatory Email with Introductory Comments Protected by 47 USC 230–Phan v. Pham
…language that escaped this judicial panel). However, that’s never been the law. See, e.g., Barrett v. Rosenthal, Batzel v. Smith, D’Alonzo v. Truscello and the many Ripoff Report cases; but…