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Communications Decency Act Does Not Protect Internet Author-Administrators

By Lauren Gelman • February 9, 2006 at 11:07 am

The district court for the Southern District of Texas remanded this Internet libel action to state court. Plaintiff had originally filed suit in state court against Defendant, an Internet site administrator and site author who allegedly posted defamatory material on his website. Defendant had then removed the case to federal court. The federal court rejected two possible grounds for removal. First, it did not have original jurisdiction as the parties were not diverse and no federal question was raised in the complaint. Read more » about Communications Decency Act Does Not Protect Internet Author-Administrators

Court Finds No Antitrust Injury From GNU General Public License (GPL)

By Lauren Gelman • February 9, 2006 at 11:06 am

This case involves the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs the use of many products sold and distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), including GNU/Linux operating systems. The GPL requires, among another things, that users who distribute or publish any work derived from GPL-covered software to license that work to under the GPL to all third parties at no charge. The plaintiff, Daniel Wallace (Wallace), was not a user of FSF software; rather, he was a competitor of FSF’s, trying to sell his own operating system. Read more » about Court Finds No Antitrust Injury From GNU General Public License (GPL)

Eighth Circuit Holds that a Computer Security Contractor May Be Considered a “Victim” Under the CFAA

By Lauren Gelman • February 9, 2006 at 11:04 am

Defendant Thomas Millot worked for Aventis Pharmaceuticals as a systems analyst in the company’s information security department. Among other duties, Millot was responsible for the administration of computer user accounts at Aventis’s Kansas City, Missouri facility. Read more » about Eighth Circuit Holds that a Computer Security Contractor May Be Considered a “Victim” Under the CFAA

California District Court Finds Anti-Bootlegging Statute Constitutional

By Lauren Gelman • February 9, 2006 at 11:03 am

This decision granted a motion by intervenor the United States to reconsider a motion to dismiss granted on December 21, 2004, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by the late Judge William Rea. Read more » about California District Court Finds Anti-Bootlegging Statute Constitutional

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