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Advertiser protection under CDA Section 230 for user-generated online contest submissions will go to jury

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2010

A hard-fought battle between two sandwich franchises has yielded an opinion dealing with the application of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to videos submitted as part of an online contest

Old wine, new tablet: new Apple iPad raises many legal issues

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 28 2010

Apple probably could not have satisfied all the wild and hopeful imaginings of everyone who weighed in on what its new iPad device would look like, and what its functionality would be

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  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2010

A new advertising icon was released last week by a privacy advocacy group in conjunction with a group of advertisers and agencies as part of an effort to educate consumers about behavioral advertising and head off federal regulation

Operator of BitTorrent P2P file-sharing network induced copyright infringement and is ineligible for DMCA safe harbors

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

The operator of a file-sharing network that utilized the BitTorrent file-sharing technology is secondarily liable for inducing copyright infringement by users of the network, a district court ruled

Ninth Circuit rules on license conditions versus contract covenants in dispute over World of Warcraft bots - MDY v. Blizzard, part I

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2011

Playing World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), can be, well, a drag

Twitter's settlement with the FTC demonstrates that "reasonable security" isn't only about online commerce

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2010

The social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter recently agreed to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its privacy and data security practices

Web site addition of hyperlinks to a previously posted online article does not restart defamation statute of limitations

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

The addition of hyperlinks to an allegedly defamatory online article does not restart the statute of limitations for defamation, a district court ruled

Advertiser protection under CDA Section 230 for user-generated online contest submissions held an issue for jury

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

Material issues of fact concerning an advertiser's role in the creation of user-generated videos submitted in an online contest preclude a grant of summary judgment on the issuer's defense under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a district court ruled

Under Pennsylvania law, no tort action lies for internet posting of external photographs of residence

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

Taking external photographs of a private residence and making the photographs available on a publicly accessible Web site does not give rise to a tort action under Pennsylvania law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled

Failure to allege that defendants were authors of defamatory posts merits dismissal under CDA Section 230

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

An action for defamation based upon comments on a Web site allegedly operated by the defendants was properly dismissed pursuant to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, where the plaintiff failed to allege that the defendants were the authors of any of the defamatory statements

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