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Who Said France Does Not Have Fair Use?
Valérie Laure Benabou, a law professor at the University of Versailles and an esteemed expert on French and international copyright law, kindly agreed to share…
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Google's New Adwording Policy in Europe
As of yesterday, Google’s new policy concerning registration of trademarks as keywords for triggering contextual advertisement in many European countries went i…
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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords
The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…
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The Google Books Amended Settlement Agreement and International Works
The long-awaited Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) was filed yesterday. The relevant documents (including the new version of the settlement and a summery of th…
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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…
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Google Books Reaches Settlement With Publishers And Authors
Author: Matt Kellogg Google recently reached a settlement agreement with the authors and publishers who in 2005 sued the company for copyright infringement. A…
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James Gleick on the Google Book Search Deal
In case you have not seen it yet, here’s James Gleick’s OP-ED in the NYT, discussing the settlement between Google and book authors and publishers. The interest…
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Reading IP Patents Like Tea Leaves
I've been reading through a study of Google's patents prepared by Stephen Arnold entitled Google Version 2.0: The Predator. Mr. Arnold displays a foren…
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How close is "very close"?
Earlier this week Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted saying that YouTube is “very close” to turning on a filtering system that should prevent copyright co…
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User Data = 2 x Video
Anyone still in doubt whether user data is valuable? Take a look at the news and learn: User data is worth the double of what Google paid for YouTube –– Googl…
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'Surveillance and You' Civic Forum
'Surveillance and You' is the title of this years Civic Forum of the Science, Technology & Society Program at UT Austin. The one day event will host…
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Search Law & Policy @ Haifa
Search is becoming an increasingly important topic in cyberlaw. After several sessions and conferences looking at the issue (including at CFP 2004, Yale Law Sch…