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DOJ challenges non-HSR reportable transactions

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

On May 22, 2007, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) filed a civil antitrust lawsuit challenging a series of 2004 transactions that eliminated competition between the only two daily newspapers in Charleston, West Virginia

Viacom sues YouTube for copyright infringement

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2007

In a high-profile case that could test the limits of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), media giant Viacom filed suit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, seeking $1 billion in damages for the posting of hundreds of thousands of Viacom video clips on the popular YouTube website

Connecticut judge upholds ruling on AT&T U-Verse service

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 18 2008

A U.S. district court judge in Connecticut dismissed arguments that amendments adopted last year to Connecticut video franchise law render moot a previous decision that AT&T’s U-Verse IPTV service fits the legal definition of a cable service

Appeals court upholds contempt ruling in DISH Network-TiVo case

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2010

DISH Network suffered yet another defeat in its quest to fend off patent infringement charges levied by TiVo, Inc

Comcast settles class action suit on P2P file blocking

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2009

Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to settle class action litigation that accused the nation’s largest cable system operator of delaying, blocking, or otherwise discriminating against web-based transmissions emanating from BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing sites

Jury says Cox did not infringe Verizon VoIP patents

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2008

In another patent-related legal development, a district court jury found that voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) services offered by Cox Communications, one of the nation’s largest cable operators, do not infringe upon VoIP technology patents held by Verizon Communications

Texas cable franchise law overturned by appeals court

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

Time Warner Cable (TWC) and other cable incumbents in the State of Texas were handed a victory last Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Social networks not liable for monitoring of pirated content, says EU high court

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 24 2012

In a development hailed by European Digital Rights as a “win for fundamental freedoms,” the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decreed that operators of social networking websites are not obligated to install blanket filtering systems that monitor and remove copyrighted content that is posted illegally

Public policy groups urge Supreme Court to overturn Pacifica decision

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
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  • November 18 2011

Filing a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of the Fox and ABC television networks, a coalition consisting of various public policy groups called on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark ruling in FCC v. Pacifica, arguing that technological innovation and the emergence of alternative forms of media have rendered obsolete the high court’s original justification for upholding limits on broadcast indecency

Court dismisses Hulu challenge against VPAA class action suit

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 18 2012

Hulu was dealt a legal defeat last week by a U.S. district court, which rejected the online video streaming provider’s motion for dismissal of a class action lawsuit that accuses Hulu of violations of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPAA