Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Associated Press unleashed a firestorm in the blogosphere last week when it claimed that Drudge Retort, a left-wing alternative to the conservative blog Drudge Report, had committed copyright infringement by linking to and briefly quoting several AP articles. Bloggers everywhere were surprised to learn that the AP expects bloggers to pay for the privilege [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a victory for the free speech rights of bloggers, Kentucky has settled a lawsuit with political blogger Mark Nickolas, whose critical comments about then-Governor Ernie Fletcher resulted in the state “blacklisting” all blogs on state-owned computers. Under the settlement, Kentucky officials agreed to no longer single out blogs for special treatment.
Public Citizen filed suit [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Public Citizen racked up another victory for Internet free speech last week when a federal judge in Michigan dismissed a trademark claim filed by a Michigan company against the consumer Web site InformercialScams.com. Lifestyle Lift, which markets cosmetic surgery through infomercials, was trying to make the somewhat ludicrous assertion that InfomercialScams couldn’t use its name [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation, Open Government on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Oregon, the law is the exclusive property of the state. When Justia.com, a website devoted to making the law available for free online, tried to post copies of the Oregon Revised Statutes, it received a cease-and-desist letter from the state’s Legislative Counsel Committee threatening a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
There is nothing preventing [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Larry Sinclair gained some noteriety when he put up a YouTube video earlier this year and spun a pretty outrageous tale that involved cocaine, Barack Obama and oral sex, not necessarily in that order. All this from an admitted felon, drug dealer and smuggler of illegal aliens. Needless to say, Sinclair has a slight credibility [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on March 21, 2008 | 42 Comments »
In case anyone is confused, the logo to the left is not endorsed or supported by Wal-Mart, the mega retailer often criticized for its stores’ negative impact on communities, the pay and benefits provided to its workers and its promotion of products made in overseas sweatshops where workers toil in inhumane conditions for nominal pay. [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
From Paul Alan Levy @ Consumer Law & Policy Blog: Dr. Seuss –- or, at least, the lawyers for his estate — are at it again. The victim this time is Teamsters for a Democratic Union, which put articles on its web site and in its newspaper that portrayed Teamster President James Hoffa as the [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Less than a week after a judge dissolved his injunctions against the Web site Wikileaks.org, the Swiss bank that was suing the site has decided to drop its lawsuit against the Web site, its users and its Internet host. Paul Elias of the Associated Press writes about it in his story. Bank Julius Baer’s decision [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that Wikileaks.org, the Web site that investigates international corruption, got shut down because it knew too much. Of course, I’m not one of those guys. Still, one has to wonder why a California federal judge shut the site down by issuing an injunction against Wikileaks’ Internet host. [...]
Posted in Free Speech, Internet, Litigation, tagged Free Speech on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Paul McMann, a Boston builder who got on the wrong side of a former client will just have to suck it up and live with her online gripes about his services. Public Citizen, which represents the woman, won its case in front of an arbitrator who hears disputes about Internet domains. McMann has already sued [...]
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