Is a Website “Published” for Copyright Law Purposes?–Rogers v. BBB of Houston

September 10, 2012 · by

…that BBB directed its new web developer to pull content from Rogers’ websites (mainly the source code). BBB moved for summary judgment on Rogers’s copyright infringement claims, arguing that Roger’s…

No Privacy Claim Against Netflix for Disclosing Viewing Histories and Instant Queue Titles Through Netflix-Enabled Devices — Mollett v. Netflix

August 22, 2012 · by

…(and Cal. Civ. Code 1799.3) by .. get this .. freely displaying, to a subscriber’s family members, a subscriber’s “recently watched” and “instant queue titles” on the subscriber’s Netflix-Enabled Device….

Bank Might Bear Loss for Fraudulent Money Transfers Initiated From Its Website–Patco v Ocean Bank (Catch-Up Post)

August 14, 2012 · by

…conclusions, albeit under slightly different portions of the Uniform Commercial Code. Article 4A of the UCC states that the risk of loss falls on the banks by default, but banks…

Ex-Employee’s Access/Misuse of Employer Files States CFAA Claim — Weingand v. Harland Financial

August 8, 2012 · by

…Code sec. 502: Section 502 is a state anti-hacking statute that was central to Facebook’s claim against Power Ventures. In that case Judge Ware said that a violation of the…

EA Faces Uphill Battle in Its Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Zynga (Partial Forbes Cross-Post)

August 7, 2012 · by

…protection is a tricky endeavor. Let’s take a careful look at the different overlapping copyright interests in a game like Social Sims: Code. The software code for a game is…

CA Court Confirms that Pineda v Williams-Sonoma (the Zip-Code-as-PII Case) Applies Retrospectively — Dardarian v. OfficeMax

August 4, 2012 · by

…City and Thoms held that zip-codes are not personal information (and were effectively overruled in Pineda) the court says that OfficeMax did not start collecting zip-code information based on these…

H1 2012 Quick Links, Part 2 (Copyright)

July 5, 2012 · by

…knockoff movies that “draft” off Hollywood blockbusters. * NYT on rampant copying of gameplay among apps. * If you buy a DVD that includes a code to download the movie,…

Judge Koh Whittles Down iPhone App Privacy Lawsuit – In re iPhone Application Litig.

July 4, 2012 · by

…current whereabouts, unique device identifier, gender, age, zip code, and time zone) from plaintiffs and tracked them. Judge Koh granted the bulk of defendants’ motion to dismiss with prejudice in…

Plaintiffs Squeak Past Motion to Dismiss in Amazon P3P Case – Del Vecchio v. Amazon

June 7, 2012 · by

…that challenged Amazon’s alleged failure to respect the P3P protocol. P3P allows websites to summarize their privacy policies in machine readable code so that web browsers could be configured to…

Java APIs Aren’t Copyrightable–Oracle v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

June 2, 2012 · by

…Google did; they wrote their own source code to implement the same functions contained in Oracle’s APIs. The judge is correct that this is perfectly lawful. Second, if there is…