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Cybersquatting; typosquatting Facebook’s $2.8 million in damages and domain names

  • Francis Abourizk Lightowlers
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  • Global, USA
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  • May 10 2013

A decision was recently handed down in California awarding Facebook $2.8 million in damages for domain name 'squatting'. The defendants in the

Website copyright infringement: UK Supreme Court asks ECJ to confirm lawfulness of accessing copyright materials through internet browsers

  • White & Black Legal LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • May 5 2013

The UK Supreme Court ("UKSC"), in the case of Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd & Ors 2013 UKSC 18

Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and personal email accounts.how far can an employer go when it comes to using their contents as evidence against an employee?

  • Norton Rose LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 7 2013

With the proliferation of social media, employers are more and more tempted to resort to their employees' personal accounts so as to obtain valuable

Supreme Court's opinion on browsing: the longer view

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 3 2013

As Lord Sumption said in the opening words of the Supreme Court's judgment in The Public Relations Consultants Association v The Newspaper Licensing

AereoAereokiller update: the ongoing battle over what constitutes a public performance under the Copyright Act

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

When we last checked in on our combatants, federal district courts in New York and California had come to contrary conclusions as to whether the

Potential bad news for UGC music sites: pre-1972 tracks may not be covered by the DMCA’s safe harbor

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 6 2013

When you think of "Peggy Sue" by Buddy Holly, "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry, and "My Girl" by the Temptations, you think classic, iconic, rock and

Worker's firings over Facebook complaints were improper: NLRB

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

In the case Design Tech. Grp. LLC dba Bettie Page Clothing, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that employees of a clothing

And the hits keep coming: the NLRB continues to make inroads into social media

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 10 2013

As recently reported on this blog here, here, and here, the NLRB has aggressively been trying to regulate the workplace implications of social media

Question on web browsing and copyright infringement referred to CJEU

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Belarus, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2013

On 17 April 2013, the Supreme Court of England and Wales provisionally held in Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v The Newspaper Licensing

Dendrite - one size may not fit all

  • Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 2 2013

The Internet did not create the tension between one person's right to speak anonymously and another person's right to sue for libel, but it sure has