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Court Gives Thumbs Down to First Amendment Protection for “Liking” Candidate on Facebook
In a decision that runs counter to a large body of Supreme Court precedent on both Internet and non-verbal speech, a Virginia district court has held that “liking” a candidate…
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Piracy in the Cloud: Collateral Effects of Criminal Investigation Sparks Legal Action by Hosting Service
In one of the largest Internet piracy actions brought by the federal government to date, Megaupload and its founders have been charged with massive copyright infringement and facilitating a…
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Viacom v. YouTube: A Question of Fact
Viacom recently asked a federal court to order YouTube to pay it more than $1 billion in damages for about 150,000 videos that Viacom claims it owns and YouTube users…
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Creative Lawyering
Legal databases Lexis and Westlaw have come under fire in a recent suit before the Southern District of New York, filed on behalf of attorneys and their law firms. In the claimed class action, Plaintiffs demand injunctive…
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What did Einstein Intend?
Fifty Seven years after he died, Albert Einstein’s name and likeness continues to generate about $10 million annually according to Forbes. Hebrew University has controlled Einstein’s name and likeness for…
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Online news aggregation service under fire: will Meltwater melt?
The latest battle over online content involves not music or movies, but the news. On February 14, 2012, the Associated Press filed a complaint in the Southern District of New…
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Lawyer Ratings Site Seeks Declaration That it Is Not Required to Remove Unflattering Reviews of Attorney Posted by Third Parties
In response to threatened legal action from a Florida law firm unhappy with negative reviews posted by users of the online attorney review site LawyerRatingz.com, the site’s operator, Ratingz, Inc.,…
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A Penny for Your Tweet?
Or, according to PhoneDog LLC, $765,000.00 a Twitter account and counting. The suit brought by PhoneDog LLC on July 15, 2011 includes four claims against former employee, Noah Kravitz: 1)…