Eighth Circuit: No Derivative Liability Under Iowa Spam Statute — Kramer v. Bartok
…Iowa Chapter Code 714E, which while the suit was pending was replaced with Iowa Chapter Code 716A (which looks fairly different, and does not contain the term “initiate”)), the Computer…
Kozinski and Goldfoot on Cyberspace Exceptionalism and Internet Regulation
…civil code has not hurt its development.” I agree that the Internet is doing wonderfully, but I would assign causality differently. Legislatures in the 1990s passed a number of Internet-favorable…
January 2010 Quick Links
…the divergence between the open source community and the Wikipedia community, APC reports that 75% of Linux code is now written by paid developers. * Oddee: 15 Funny Facebook Fails….
Court Rejects Computer Fraud & Abuse Act Claim Based on Unsolicited Text Messages–Czech v. Wall Street on Demand
…a claim for obtaining information from her phone; (2) a claim for transmitting information or code through her phone; and (3) a claim for “accessing” her phone. Information Claim: The…
Google AdWords Litigation Keeps Rolling In–Parts Geek v. US Auto Parts
…honor code among geeks–thou shalt not harm other geeks. As you can imagine, then, I was a little sad to see geek-on-geek litigation like this one, where auto parts geeks…
Nursing Student’s Blog Post Doesn’t Support Expulsion–Yoder v. University of Louisville
…grounds that she violated two contracts: the student honor code and a confidentiality agreement. Given how damaging Yoder’s post was to the University’s nursing school (after reading it, I suspect…
Wikipedia and Rules Proliferation
…time. Personally, I’ve seen code expansion over and over again in the context of negative behavioral restrictions in user-to-user communities. A 2008 article by Brian Butler, Elisabeth Joyce and Jacqueline…
Web Developer Didn’t “Convert” Website–Conwell v. Gray Loon
…never actually delivers any code to the customer. 2) Was there an enforceable agreement to amend? The trial court said yes, and the Supreme Court saw no reason to override…
Google Liberalizes US Trademark Policy: “What, Me Worry?” Part 2
…in code in the ad copy to explain why they did so. Nevertheless, we shouldn’t let these omissions detract from what is otherwise very good news from Google. While I…
Catching Up on Three Keyword Advertising Cases–Hearts on Fire, Romeo & Juliette, AAA
…Zippo jurisdictional test. There were also 2 California consumer complaints against the defendants, and the lead generation form had a zip code field to indicate when consumers were from California….