The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that L.L. Bean's Internet, catalog, and mail-order retail operations are sufficient to support personal jurisdic…
The Sixth Circuit considered whether the dormant Commerce Clause prevented the state of Michigan from treating in-state and out-of-state wineries differently wi…
In what it called a case of “cruel and sadistic identity theft,” the Ninth Circuit ruled that an online matchmaking service, Matchmaker.com was statutorily immu…
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) served two separate subpoenas, both under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), on Verizon Internet…
The Prometheus Radio Project is an unincorporated organization whose goal is to provide support for the creation of low-power, non-commercial radio stations. P…
The Ninth Circuit held that plaintiffs whose private e-mail messages were disclosed under a “patently unlawful” subpoena could sue the defendant who issued the…
In October 1999, Andrew Bunner posted DeCSS—code that can be used to defeat CSS copy protection on DVDs—on his website, and the DVD Copy Control Association (“D…
WhenU.com’s pop-up advertising software typically comes bundled with free downloadable software. The pop-up advertising software resides on the user’s computer,…
Peter Catalanotte, defendant-appellant, registered the domain name on January 21, 1997. Never having operated any website using this domain name, Catalanotte…
The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, denied a motion for summary judgment against Skylink Technologies, Inc., m…
At issue was whether the copyright owner should be permitted to recover actual damages beyond the defendant’s profits, where the profits resulted from the overs…
The plaintiffs, the Traditional Cat Association and its head Diana L. Finerman, sued the defendants for using the name “Traditional Cat Association.” The case…