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Question of federal government’s power to protect American families from profane television moves closer to Supreme Court as FCC appeals TV indecency ruling.
U.S. District Judge William Bertelsmen orders gossip blog TheDirty.com to pay $11 million to professional cheerleader in defamation suit.
Federal court issues massive, [...]
Continue Reading →FCC gives Hollywood the green light to deactivate PCs and individual home theaters that show pirated movies.
9th Circuit will decide if First Sale Doctrine excuses eBay sales of record labels’ promotional CDs on eBay.
“Tell-All” generation rethinks privacy issues on [...]
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CBS receiving criticism for lack of homosexual characters on scripted shows. And in the late-night realm, David Letterman sex-scandal/extortion plot getting even more attention.
The verdict is in: Americans don’t like being tracked online.
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Skype has quickly become an Internet phenomenon, appealing to a broad variety of customers with its instant messaging, video chat, and phone services. (I personally became a fan during my study abroad with the Vanderbilt in Venice summer program.) For the uninitiated, Skype allows you [...]
Continue Reading →Oliver Stone has nothing on this drama-– and it’s all because of eBay. It turns out that who killed Kennedy isn’t the only issue surrounding the assassination that is still being debated today. This week, a Texas judge delayed the trial which will determine who owns the window from which Lee Harvey [...]
Continue Reading →In July 2008, the Southern District of New York ruled that eBay could not be held liable for direct or contributory trademark infringement or dilution in a suit brought by retailer Tiffany & Co. Tiffany had argued that eBay should be liable for trademark infringement because it allowed counterfeit [...]
Continue Reading →Luxury brands around the world were no doubt ecstatic over Louis Vuitton’s $63 million win this past Monday in France. A Paris court ordered eBay to pay damages to LVMH (a Paris-based conglomerate owning luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Givenchy, among others) for facilitating the sale of counterfeit [...]
Continue Reading →In April 2008, the internet auction site eBay filed a stockholder lawsuit against Craigslist, the online classified site. The complaint alleges that Craigslist directors and controlling shareholders, Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster, breached their fiduciary duties by [...]
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