Judge’s Facebook Friendship With Victim’s Parent Does not Taint Proceeding — Youkers v. Texas
…media is part of any modern day judicial campaign) and personally, judges must still abide by the applicable ethical rules. The court looks to the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct…
Misguided Catfishing Scheme Leads to Discipline of College Students — Zimmerman v. Ball State
…Ball State received a complaint from the roommate and charged plaintiffs with two violations of the Conduct Code: (1) first for creating a intimidating or hostile environment; and (2) for…
Designing Optimal Immunities and Safe Harbors (Forbes Cross-Post)
…compared to 47 USC 230), it has still provided enough legal certainty to help the UGC industry grow. * California Business & Professions Code (B&P) 16600, which voids non-compete clauses…
First Sale Doctrine Doesn’t Allow Resale of Digital Songs – Capitol Records v. ReDigi
…commerce. Here, ReDigi is not distributing such material items; rather it is distributing reproductions of the copyrighted code embedded in new material objects, namely, the ReDigi server in Arizona and…
The Supreme Court’s Kirtsaeng Ruling Is Good News for Consumers, but the First Sale Doctrine Is Still Doomed–Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley (Forbes Cross-Post)
…to say that such shrinkwrapped contracts are ineffective, but I consider that issue legally unresolved. Geographic Coding. Publishers can encode electronic media in geographic-specific technical formats. For example, DVDs currently…
California Supreme Court: Retail Privacy Statute Doesn’t Apply to Download Transactions – Apple v Superior Court (Krescent)
…the court in Pineda, where the court found that collection of a zip-code by a bricks and mortar retailer violated the statute. While the statute provides for several exceptions allowing…
Google’s Privacy Policy Integration Initially Defeats Legal Challenge — In re Google Privacy Policy Litigation
…seq., California’s Right of Publicity Statute, Cal. Civ. Code 3344, California’s Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200 et seq., California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act, Cal. Civ. Code…
Facebook Isn’t–and Shouldn’t Be–A Democracy (Forbes Cross-Post)
…it’s costly for UGC websites to give more configuration options to users, especially if requires the website to maintain old or duplicative code. And from users’ standpoint, too many configuration…
Minors’ Suit Over Facebook Credits Survives in Part – I.B. v. Facebook
…and were not successful. They brought putative class claims. Disaffirmance: The big question was whether the minors’ contract to purchase the Facebook credits were void or voidable. California Family Code…
Sex Offender Online Registration Statute Covers New Myspace Account — State v. White
…suffer penal consequences for violating a statute that the trial court and appellate court couldn’t agree on the contours of. There is of course the larger question of whether it’s…