The mainstream media has noticed that something is amiss in Steubenville, Ohio. (Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City). And Jezebel gives credit where it is due -- to a blogger who refused to let the story die. (We Wouldn’t Know About the Steubenville Rape Case...
Anonymous has now targeted Hunter Moore. In a release published today, Anon writes: Greetings citizens of the world, We are Anonymous. This is a call to all Anonymous worldwide, you have a chance to make a real difference in the lives of hundreds of bullied teenagers and protect them from...
I got this story in my inbox -- that United Airlines was trying to bully a website that is dedicated to complaining about United Airlines - Untied.com. United Continental Holdings has sued a Canadian professor who maintains the 15-year-old complaint website Untied.com, which airs complaints from disgruntled United Airlines...
This blog often features articles on developments in § 230 of the Communications Decency Act, or the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the significance – and nuance – of such rulings may not be immediately appreciable to many readers. Hopefully such posts are helpful to lawyers. However, they are important...
The ACLU filed a complaint in the Northern District of Indiana against the Griffith Public School district after it expelled three middle school girls for a lengthy conversation they had on Facebook outside of school hours. According to the complaint, the conversation “spanned numerous subjects,” beginning with one girl complaining...
Remember Righthaven? While it has been stripped of its intellectual property and claims against it keep piling up, the fat lady has not yet sung - and the ABA has noticed. The May 2012 ABA Journal's cover story is the aftermath of Righthaven. Eriq Gardner, who Righthaven once sued for posting...
By J. DeVoy Earlier this week, Facebook announced its $1B acquisition of hipster staple Instagram. Everywhere you look, social media companies based on seemingly fragile social momentum are receiving gigantic valuations and making initial public offerings. Zynga has $8.8 billion in market capitalization - it's best known for FarmVille, brogrammers and...
By J. DeVoy The Second Circuit released its opinion in Viacom v. YouTube today, partially vacating the Southern District of New York's order granting summary judgment in favor of the online video service. Ultimately, the case is to be remanded to the district court for fact-finding on whether YouTube had knowledge...
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is not particularly known for his friendliness toward the First Amendment, is at it again. As chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, Lieberman urged Twitter to stop hosting pro-Taliban tweets last fall, in addition to persuading Internet companies to remove blog posts that promote terrorism. It...
The man known for using sexually suggestive advertising to sell his products and owner of a company dubbed Virgin recently won a legal battle to gain control over richardbranson.xxx. Source. Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson filed a UDRP complaint against Sean Truman, who, according to the decision, is not in the...
