By Eric Goldman I have finally posted my article, Brand Spillovers, to SSRN. It will be published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology later this year. I have blogged about this project several times over the past 4…

By Eric Goldman American Airlines, Inc. v. Yahoo!, Inc., 4:08-CV-626-A (N.D. Tex. Jan. 16, 2009) The procedural battles over American Airlines’ lawsuit against Yahoo for selling trademarked keywords continue. You may recall that American Airlines sued Yahoo in its home…

By Eric Goldman Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association v. Wingate ex rel Kentucky, 08-CI-01409 (Ky. Ct. App. Jan. 20, 2009) We see state enforcement agencies freak out about the Internet all the time, so I have a hard time…

By Eric Goldman Meyerkord v. The Zipatoni Co., 2008 WL 5455718 (Mo. App. Ct. Dec. 23, 2008) It’s a late entry, but this opinion may be a dark horse candidate for the most bizarre case of 2008. Meyerkord was a…

By Eric Goldman GW Equity LLC v. Xcentric Ventures LLC, 2009 WL 62173 (N.D.Tex. Jan. 9, 2009) I previously blogged about this case in October when the magistrate judge issued his report and recommendations finding that Rip-off Report was immune…

By Eric Goldman Doe 1 v. AOL LLC, 2009 WL 103657 (9th Cir. Jan. 16, 2009) This is one of several lawsuits against AOL over AOL’s 2006 posting of a database of improperly anonymized search queries. This particular lawsuit was…

By Eric Goldman Mikhlyn v. Bove, 2008 WL 4610304 (E.D.N.Y. Oct. 15, 2008). The Justia page. In my Co-Blogging Law article, I discussed the potentially ugly legal consequences of “blog divorces” when co-bloggers fall out of love with each other…

By Eric Goldman As I mentioned in my previous post, I will be speaking tonight in Sacramento about 47 USC 230. The audience will have a heavy component of businesspeople mixed among the lawyers. Although I’ve spoken frequently about 230,…

By Eric Goldman As usual at this point in the semester, I’m still scheduling events for the semester, but this post enumerates some of the events I have calendared so far. Some of these are High Tech Law Institute events,…

By Eric Goldman [Eric’s note: this is a popular annual event–last year’s symposium drew over 200 attendees. This year should also be popular due to the timely topics and impressive speaker’s list. Should be a great event. Hope you can…