CIS today asked a 2nd Circuit Appeals Court to overrule a decision preventing a software company from accessing and republishing webfares to help consumers get the best prices.
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.
American Airlines v. FareChase
In this case, AA successfully obtained an injunction from a Texas trial court, stopping FareChase from selling software that enables users to comparison shop for webfares if it also searches American's website. The airline argued that FareChase's websearch software trespassed on American's servers when it collected the publicly available data. Stanford CIS is lead counsel on the appeal. For more comments on the case, see Denise Howell's March 11 blog entry.
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