By Eric Goldman Building on several previous blog posts, I am writing up a extended discourse explaining why Wikipedia will fail. A key part of my argument is that committed Wikipedians will turn over faster than they can be replaced….
A recent court case reiterates that privacy policies aren’t the be-all, end-all panacea for protecting online privacy. By Ethan Ackerman One of the main arguments against a federal online privacy law has been that website privacy policies were a self-regulatory…
By Eric Goldman Please join us for this event being held in conjunction with the Data Privacy Day. Free admission and no RSVP required. Erika is a long-time colleague (dating back to our Cooley Godward days) and I’m very interested…
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…