Mickey Krieger was a friend, mentor, and served as Of Counsel to this firm on trademark matters for several years. He died on October 25th after a battle with esophageal cancer. His death came less than three weeks after Raun Burnham, who worked for many years with the firm as a trademark paralegal, lost her […]
Aspire Health Partners sued Aspire MGT under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §1125(d) (“ACPA”) over defendant’s registration and use of the domain name . Plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction to stop defendant from using the disputed domain name, but the court denied the request. The court held that plaintiff failed to show that […]
Tingey Injury Law Firm, Unsplash On December 4, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) ordered building services contractor Guardian Industries, Inc. (“Guardian”) to cease enforcement of no-hire provisions it included in customer service agreements with residential building owners and building management companies, prohibiting the hire of Guardian’s employees. Guardian, which operates in New York and […]
This is a FOSTA case involving Backpage, but it’s against Backpage’s vendor Salesforce. That makes this a tertiary liability claim. Here are the steps in the plaintiffs’ alleged chain of liability: V) victims promoted in Backpage advertisements (plaintiffs) –> D1) advertisers (alleged sex traffickers) [1st party perpetrators] –> D2) publishers (Backpage) [provided advertising support for […]
Originally posted 2010-06-07 08:25:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Now Instapundit links to this New York Times story: Google and Yahoo are introducing services that will let users search through television programs based on words spoken on the air. The services will look for keywords in the closed captioning information that is encoded in […]
In California, cable service providers are subject to stringent privacy regulations, especially under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“California CCPA”) and other state-specific laws. The California Consumer Privacy Act is a landmark privacy law in California that grants residents extensive rights over their personal data and imposes significant obligations on businesses that collect, process, or […]
Google’s recent removal of Alex Jones’ InfoWars from its Google Play service, because of false and misleading information it had been transmitting about the coronavirus, isn’t an aberration. That kind of oversight is encouraged by a key Internet law that is now under attack from various fronts. That law is section 230 of the federal […]
The domain industry may not be set to shrink, but it’s not set to grow either, according to predictions in ICANN’s newest draft budget, published this week. The Org’s bean-counters have also confirmed that the recently announced fee increases for registries, registrars and registrants may become a “repeatable” occurence. ICANN says its budget for fiscal […]
From what feels like time immemorial the UK government has paraded its proposed online harms legislation under the banner of ‘What is Illegal Offline is Illegal Online’. As a description of what is now the Online Safety Bill, the slogan is ill-fitting. The Bill contains nothing that extends to online behaviour a criminal offence that […]
Noach Newman and others sued the Associated Press (AP), alleging that its use of freelance photographers with ties to Hamas contributed to the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel. Newman and the other plaintiffs, who were either present at the attacks or affected by them, claimed AP’s publication of photos taken by these freelancers supported […]