Category: Litigation

Lawyers on the edge A Hamburg court has ruled that moderators of internet forums are liable for content posted on their sites.… Originally by The Register – Internet and Law: Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs, 10:49 AM Read more Read more →

Should Neelie intervene? Microsoft has successfully sued two Dutch companies it claims sold Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels without the appropriate software or repackaged them with different software.… Originally by The Register – Software, 10:46 AM Read more Read more →

Ars Technica examines the class action lawsuit as a mechanism for consumer redress: Class-action lawsuits are common, especially when it comes to tech products. iPods, CDs, DVD rentals… you name the product and chances are someone has filed a class-action suit. There’s no denying it: class-action lawsuits feel good. After all, individual consumers have little… Read more →

‘Toxic iPods’? Apparently. The owner of an iPod has commenced proceedings against Apple in the United States, claiming that the music device causes hearing loss. The plaintiff’s statement of claim asserts that Apple’s music players are ‘inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss’. The… Read more →

A promotional piece for O’Reilly’s upcoming Emerging Technology Conference in March 2006 discusses America’s Next Top Tech Lawsuits: Publishers threaten Google Print; Techmo shuts down videogame skinners; Xbox modders go to jail; Lynn blows the lid off Cisco; Blizzard emulators breach the DMCA; image archives under fire; SCO still trying to bugger Linux; blog owner… Read more →

‘TheOcho writes “Webhost company AIT has decided to file a class action lawsuit against the internet giant Google. According to the article the dispute is over click fraud. AIT claims they have lost around $500 000 due to fraudulent clicks. They claim that Google is hitting their website from ‘the same IP addresses’.”‘ ‘Click fraud’ is… Read more →

‘The Supreme Court [of the United States] rejected an appeal by digital-media manufacturers that are battling a patent suit filed by storage-card maker SanDisk.’ Originally by WSJ.com: What’s News Technology, 2:30 PM Read more Read more →

RealNetworks announced a legal settlement Tuesday with longtime adversary Microsoft, ending the last major antitrust case against the world’s largest software maker. RealNetworks said it had reached three deals with Microsoft worth up to $761 million. That includes a $460 million up-front cash payment to settle the antitrust dispute. Another part of the agreement gives… Read more →

Electronic discovery is the bogeyman that haunts the sleep of corporate legal counsel, according to Fulbright & Jaworski’s annual study of in-house trends. With steep fines and jail sentences being handed out to corporations and executives that violate the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate counsel are taking a closer look at policies guiding record-keeping and disclosure, but… Read more →

Google’s attempt to lift job restrictions on a top computer engineer lured from rival Microsoft suffered another blow Friday under a tentative court ruling that would limit the search engine company’s legal options for at least another three months. Kai-Fu Lee’s relocation from Microsoft’s home state of Washington to Google’s home state of California has… Read more →