Roommates.com Update
By Eric Goldman As I’m sure you know, I am not a fan of the recent Ninth Circuit hairball opinion in the Roommates.com case. In discussions since the opinion was issued, most of my lawyers I’ve spoken with have no…
Lawyer Rating Service Sued–Browne v. Avvo
By Eric Goldman Browne v. Avvo, CV7 920 (W.D. Wash. complaint filed June 14, 2007) You may have heard about Avvo, the latest entrant in the suddenly crowded field of lawyer ratings/rankings. Avvo pulls together a variety of third party…
AutoAdmit Fiasco Turns Into a Lawsuit–Doe v. Ciolli
By Eric Goldman Doe v. Ciolli, 307CV00909 CFD (D. Conn. complaint filed June 11, 2007) AutoAdmit is a message board for law students and related groupies. It’s a relatively untamed corner of cyberspace. The site owners have espoused a relatively…
Domain Names Can’t Be Trespassed–Utube.com v. YouTube
By Eric Goldman Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corp. v. YouTube, Inc., 2007 WL 1655507 (N.D. Ohio June 4, 2007) Boy, this case got a lot of attention when it was first filed (which isn’t surprising; YouTube lawsuits usually do)….
Cavazos Presentation on Open Source
By Eric Goldman At the UT Austin Technology Law Conference in May, Ed Cavazos spoke about open source issues. He proffered seven common myths about open source: #1: the phrase “open source” is meaningful, or developers understand all this so…
SPY Act Passes House…Again
By Eric Goldman HR 964 For the third year in a row, the House passed the SPY Act. I was hopeful that the House’s passing of the I-SPY Act would forestall further action on this bill, but unfortunately I was…
Zango Also Loses Kaspersky TRO Motion
By Eric Goldman Zango, Inc. v. Kaspersky Lab Inc., C07-0807-JCC (W.D. Wash. TRO motion denied June 6, 2007) Yesterday, Zango’s TRO request against PC Tools was denied but Zango claimed the result was nevertheless a “victory for consumer choice” because…
Zango Loses TRO Motion Against PC Tools But Claims Win
By Eric Goldman Zango, Inc. v. PC Tools Pty Ltd., C07-0797-JCC (W. D. Wash. TRO denied June 5, 2007) The judge denied Zango’s TRO request against PC Tools. The actual opinion is efficient and somewhat non-committal, as befits an opinion…
PC Tools & Kaspersky Respond to Zango Lawsuit
By Eric Goldman PC Tools and Kaspersky have responded to Zango’s TRO requests in Zango v. PC Tools and Zango v. Kaspersky. PC Tools’ response reads like a typical anti-spyware gripefest about Zango generally, only some of which actually responds…
More Defendants Lose 230 Defense
By Eric Goldman On the heels of the Roommates.com train wreck, two more defendants have had their 47 USC 230 defenses rejected. Interestingly, both cases come out of Tennessee federal courts in the Sixth Circuit–not normally known as a problem…