In a stunning decision recently released by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Google was ordered to remove the now-infamous film, “Innocence of Muslims”, from YouTube.…
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Google's Big Score: District Court Says Book Digitization Project is Fair Use
In the latest installment of the legal saga surrounding Google’s book digitization project, Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District NY court has granted summary judgement in favour of Google,…
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The Italian ‘Google Vividown’ Case: ISPs’ Liability for User-Generated Content
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. (more…)
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Strike Three, Viacom
If at first you don’t succeed, Viacom, try try again? On April 18, 2013, Judge Louise Stanton of the 2nd Circuit District Court effectively wrote the last chapter in the…
Who Inherits Your Likes?
Our myriad of online accounts for social media and other cloud services will all persist after our deaths. Until recently, not much thought was given to managing these digital assets…
Mining the Digital Gold Rush: The Legal (L)ore around France's Data-Mining Tax
With markets in real property, personal property, and intellectual property quite cornered, the future-savvy lawyer might consider their cutting-edge cousin, if France’s data-mining tax proposal has its way: what could…