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Some Requirements for Pleading Copyright Misuse Counterclaims
Author: Stuart Loh Defendant Psystar Corporation (“Psystar”) makes and sells a line of computers which support the plaintiff Apple Inc.’s (“Apple”) operating s…
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Internet Service Provider Potentially Liable for Copyright Infringement of Hosted Websites
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich Following an investigation and notification attempts, clothing distributor Louis Vuitton Malletier filed a complaint against…
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FCC Can Ban Customer Retention Practices
Author: Alex Harris The DC Circuit upheld a decision of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) prohibiting Verizon from continuing some of the company’s…
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Court Allows Invasion of Privacy Claim Against Tax Service Provider for Throwing Away Tax Returns in Public Dumpster
Author: José Mauro Vicki J. Pinero sued Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (“Jackson Hewitt”) for not complying with its own privacy policy and dumping her tax re…
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Google Immune from Liability Under § 230 of the CDA for AdWords Content Created by Third Parties
Author: Matt Kellogg In the Northern District of California, the District Court granted Google’s motion to dismiss in a suit claiming that Google had been comp…
Packets
Packets is production of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS). It is written by members of the Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA),…
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Privacy And Free Speech (ACLU No. Cal. Primer)
The ACLU of Northern California has published a primer (PDF) on the advantages to businesses of good privacy and free speech practices. The primer assembles ma…
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CIS is on Twitter
CIS is now on Twitter! Follow our tweets @StanfordCIS!…
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“Everything. I record everything.”
This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s a…
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A Short Tour Of Robot Case Law
“Robots again.” That’s how federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski begins his dissent from the Ninth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Wendt v. Host International…
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The Powder & the Glory premieres on PBS
The Powder & the Glory, part of the Fair Use Project's Documentary Film Program, will have its broadcast premiere on PBS Monday March 23, 2009 at 10PM (…
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See Otter
As if we privacy advocates didn't have enough to worry about, this sea otter apparently got a hold of a video camera and was "filming" tourists. W…