Facebook Friendship May Undermine University Disciplinary Board Decision — Furey v. Temple Univ.
…was taken down and arrested by additional officers who arrived on the scene. Furey was charged with a violation of Temple’s code of conduct. The panel adjudicating the charge consisted…
July 2010 Quick Links, Part 1 (IP Edition)
…* Mattel Inc. v. MGA Entertainment Inc., 09-55673 (9th Cir July 22, 2010). Another Kozinski bull-in-the-china-shop opinion, it is studded with important legal statements. Among the most interesting: an employee…
Baidu Can Maintain Negligence Claims Against Register.com for Lax Security Practices Which Allegedly Facilitated Cyber-Attack – Baidu v. Register.com
…asked for the security code, the intruder did not provide the correct code (the intruder did not have access to the Baidu email address on file). Notwithstanding the discrepancy in…
Judge Denies Facebook’s Request for Judgment on the Pleadings and Strikes Power.com Counterclaims — Facebook v. Power.com
…self-help If Facebook can show these four elements, it has a good chance at winning the Penal Code 502 case; indeed, this ruling indicates that under Penal Code 502, the…
Q2 2010 Quick Links Part 2
…to keep reality TV secrets. * Want to be on the TV show Survivor? Check out its contract first. * Anderson v. Bell, No. 20100237 (Utah June 22, 2010): “electronic…
Q2 2010 Quick Links Part 1 (Content Regulation Edition)
…the password after seeing blog postings threatening him. The ex-boyfriend says he didn’t expect the new boyfriend to be reading the blog because: [California Penal Code] Section 502 provides that…
Use of Multiple (Even Random or Garbled) Domain Names to Bypass Spam Filter Does not Violate Cal. Spam Statute — Kleffman v. Vonage
…forged header information under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17529.5(a)(2)? Discussion: The court starts out the discussion by noting a fact that to me starts and ends the discussion:…
Contributory Copyright Infringement Claim May Need Direct Infringer as a Defendant to Succeed–Miller v. Facebook
…of Boomshine’s source code to create the accused ChainRxn video game. Without Mr. Yeo in the case to provide testimony and the ChainRxn source code, however, it is unclear how…
9th Circuit Affirms Rejection of Data Breach Claims Against Gap — Ruiz v. Gap
…Ruiz, one of those applicants, brought claims on behalf of a putative class under theories of negligence, breach of contract, unfair competition (17200), the California constitution, and California Civil Code…
April-May 2010 Quick Links Part 1 (IP Edition)
…information technology. Such “cybermarks” are not merely indicators of product source, but function both as symbolic indicia for human recognition and as strings of computer code in the operation of…