Schlossberg v. Solesbee, 2012 WL 141741 (D.Or. January 18, 2012) Plaintiff was being questioned by defendant police officer when defendant noticed plaintiff was using a digital camera to capture the exchange. The cop got enraged and took the camera away. He arrested plaintiff and looked through the files on the camera without getting a warrant. [...]
Earlier this week Eriq Gardner speculated in a tweet that less than one tenth of one percent of folks have actually read the SOPA legislation. I bet he’s right. It’s good to read the statute. But what might be worse than not reading it is reading it wrongly and thereafter propagating misunderstanding. One of the [...]
The day of protest against the now (hopefully) infamous "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011" (PROTECT IP Act, or PIPA) has ended….
The Ontario Court of Appeal just released its decision in Jones v Tsige saying that there is a tort of invasion of privacy in Ontario. Until this decision, it was generally felt that this right did not exist in Ontario. The court also refers to the tort as intrusion upon seclusion. The gist of the [...]
This list is a work in progress. Newer additions are at the top of the list. Porn Sites Black Out For SOPA (WebProNews) The Internet at its Best (EFF) Anti-piracy battle reveals dysfunctional thinking (The Hill) A SOPA/PIPA Blackout Explainer (Wired Threat Level) SOPA, PIPA won’t break the Internet (Washington Post) SOPA Outrage Is Breaking [...]
In light of today’s internet blackouts, we have received numerous requests for information about the Stop Online Piracy Act ("SOPA") and the Protect IP Act ("PIPA"), as well as the reasons for today’s protest of these two bills. …
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. Here are some of the sites that are going dark today, or changing their home pages in protest over the proposed US legislation. For more information on why this legislation is so bad, check out these sites, or search for “SOPA” on [...]
Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Doe, 2012 WL 90412 (E.D. Cal. July 11, 2012) In a mass copyright infringement suit, plaintiff served a subpoena on an internet service provider and got the identifying information for the account holder suspected of trading a copy of a movie via BitTorrent. The account holder was uncooperative with plaintiff’s [...]
Looking to make their brand “a little more memorable,” the News Licensing Group is now NewsRight – and is billing itself as an “easy rights clearinghouse for the best news reporting and original journalism on the Web.”
Earlier this month,…
Bostwick v. Christian Oth, Inc., 2012 WL 44065 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. January 10, 2012) Plaintiff bride logged onto her wedding photographer’s website and saw photos of herself wearing only underwear. She emailed an employee of the photographer, who promised to take the offending photos down. But they remained on the website even after plaintiff shared [...]