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What the Bleep Do We Know? How the Use of Volunteer Moderators, LiveJournal, and the Saga of Bleeping Computer Continues to Shape the Internet

Social networking sites and online message boards are an integral part of the Internet. Those websites are able to provide unfettered forums for the exchange of ideas because they enjoy certain legal immunities. But, those immunities are eroding. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides immunity from copyright infringement, and 47...

10 May, 2017 / 0 Comments

The “Pop-Up Keyboard” Defense: How Apps, Mobile Phones, and Terms of Use Work Together

Unlike the Blackberry keyboards of yesteryears, your smartphone probably has a pop-up touch-screen keyboard. Recently, the Northern District of California took issue with this modern design, and denied Uber’s motion to compel arbitration because a pop-up keyboard blocked Uber’s Terms and Conditions from view while a user registered for the...

10 May, 2017 / 0 Comments

Jail For Laughing Protester Is An Outrage

Marc Randazza’s most recent CNN column analyzes the recent conviction of Code Pink Protestor Desiree Fairooz after the media suggested she had been arrested merely for, "laughing at Jeff Sessions" during a Congressional hearing. There is, of course, more to the story. See - Jail for laughing protester is an outrage When Fairooz...

10 May, 2017 / 0 Comments

Marc Randazza’s most recent CNN column analyzes U.C. Berkley’s decision to silence Ann Coulter

See Dear Berekely: Even Ann Coulter deserves free speech There has been a wave of violent outbursts against conservative speakers during the 2016 election season, including violent protestors at Berkeley driving Milo Yiannopolous off campus a few months ago. Berekley’s reaction? When the Berkeley College Republicans invited Coulter to speak, Berkeley canceled...

27 April, 2017 / 0 Comments

Trademark counterfeiting and the new Las Vegas Raiders

Marc Randazza, the managing partner of Randazza Legal Group, comments on Trademark counterfeiting and the new Las Vegas Raiders. "[If] you sell merchandise with 'Raiders' on it, you better have the permission of the NFL," Mr. Randazza told Las Vegas 13 Action News, "[j]ust because there may not yet be...

09 April, 2017 / 0 Comments

Las Vegas New Porn Frontier

Right now, Las Vegas looks like the new frontier for porn. Marc Randazza, an entertainment lawyer who has studied the porn industry's migration to Nevada, sees Kink.com's move "in the larger context of adult entertainment companies looking just a few hours east, seeing much lower costs to doing business, and...

24 March, 2017 / 0 Comments

SPRING VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

Randazza Legal Group is proud to sponsor Spring Valley High School Football. When they approached us to sponsor them, of course we said “yes.” When they told us that we got to put whatever we wanted on the back of the shirt, we saw it as a great opportunity to...

22 March, 2017 / 0 Comments

Randazza Resoundingly Wins First Amendment Case

In Marc Randazza’s latest First Amendment victory, he once again fended off censorship in favor of wide open debate. In this appellate victory, the 11th Circuit Court of appeals upheld an earlier anti-SLAPP win, and a lower court decision that held that a plaintiff could not use a bogus “false...

07 March, 2017 / 0 Comments

Protect yourself in Brazil

Although you might not think often about protecting your trademark rights in Brazil, you need to – even if you don’t yet have a single Brazilian customer. Scammers are constantly looking for ways to profit off of the work of others. Anyone with a computer and a little bit of know-how...

10 December, 2016 / 0 Comments

Pro Bono Representation Grant to the American Muslim Women PAC

Randazza Legal Group is proud to announce that it has given a pro bono representation grant to the American Muslim Women PAC to provide First Amendment and Intellectual Property services to the organization. The PAC’s president, Marriam Seddiq, said, ‘Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion, these are key American values....

26 October, 2016 / 0 Comments