Archive for April, 2009

StubHub and Section 230 Immunity

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Fehrs v. StubHub, Inc., No. 0801-00515 (Ore. Cir. Ct. Sep. 9, 2008) found that StubHub was immune from a state law claim regarding ticket scalping. StubHub was not so lucky in NPS LLC v. StubHub, Inc., 2009 WL 995483 (Mass. Super. Jan. 26, 2009) where commentators at the Berkman Center and Mass Law Blog [...]

Website Terms Allowing Unilateral Changes Illusory and Unenforceable

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

As part of the fallout from Facebook’s rollout of its Beacon ad service, some users of Blockbuster’s site sued Beacon-partner, Blockbuster, in the Northern District of Texas, for among other things, violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Blockbuster moved to compel arbitration of the dispute, relying on the Terms and Conditions on its [...]

links for 2009-04-21

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

50 great examples of infographics – FrancescoMugnai.com
(tags: infographics visualization)

Copyright and Trademark Double-Header

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Big day for interesting judicial opinions:
Golan v. Holder, (D. Colo. Apr. 3, 2009).
Congress has a legitimate interest in complying with the terms of the Berne Convention. The Berne Convention, however, affords each member nation discretion to restore the copyrights of foreign authors in a manner consistent with that member nation’s own body of copyright law. [...]