AFP v. Google Settles
By Eric Goldman The Agence France-Presse v. Google lawsuit has settled. See news reports: AP, CNET News.com. Like it did with the Associated Press, Google struck a licensing deal for AFP content, including indexing it in Google News. Financial terms…
Google AdWords Contract Upheld (Again)–Feldman v. Google
By Eric Goldman Feldman v. Google, Inc., 2007 WL 966011 (E.D. Pa. March 29, 2007) Yet another click fraud lawsuit, this time involving one of the 556 plaintiffs that opted out of the Google click fraud settlement. In my prior…
Utah Bans Keyword Advertising [Updated]
By Eric Goldman Utah SB 236 (the “Trademark Protection Act”), enacted March 19, 2007 Legislators enact stupid laws all of the time, but some laws transcend mere stupidity and produce a single 3 letter response: WTF? And no legislature has…
Miva Securities Litigation Rejects Most Click Fraud/Syndication Fraud Claims
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,…
KinderStart v. Google Dismissed–With Sanctions Against KinderStart’s Counsel
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…
Person v. Google Dismissed (with leave to amend)
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…
Click Fraud Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss–Payday Advance v. FindWhat
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…
Can A Spider Enter Into A Binding Contract?–Internet Archive v. Shell
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…
Person v. Google Hearing
By Eric Goldman Person v. Google, C 06-7297 JF (RS) (N.D. Cal.) Carl Person is on a losing streak. First, he sought the Green Party nomination for New York Attorney General, but he lost that election in April 2006. Then,…
Rescuecom Files Reply Brief in Rescuecom v. Google
By Eric Goldman In the Second Circuit appeal of Rescuecom v. Google, Rescuecom has filed its reply brief to Google’s first brief and the various amicus briefs filed in support of Google’s position. Rescuecom’s brief relies heavily on McCarthy’s recent…