Mark Partridge of the Guiding Rights blog has a great summary of a recent case here in Illinois about personal jurisdiction over an out of state defendant. The court found that there were sufficicent minimum contacts based upon activity performed over the defendant’s website with the state of Illinois to justify holding the defendant subject…
Category: Cases
Domain name dispute: Angé v. Templer – State court claims
Angé v. Templer Decided February 21, 2006 No. C 05-05169 WHA, 2006 WL 436139 (N.D.Cal.) Plaintiffs, an individual and a California corporation named Gap International, Inc., sued in state court for the conversion of the domain name Gapinternational.com. Defendants include the hosting company who took the Plaintiff’s domain name and the Pennsylvania company named Gap…
Domain name dispute: Digital Telemedia, Inc. vs. C. I. Host, Inc.
Digital Telemedia, Inc., d/b/a Logicworks vs. C. I. Host, Inc. and Logicworks Corporation, No. 04 Civ. 1734(CSH) – Southern District of New York 2006 WL 300465 (S.D.N.Y.) Decided February 8, 2006 The plaintiff, Digital Telemedia, Inc., does business as “Logicworks.” It alleges trademark infringement, cyberpiracy, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices against two defendants. The…
Saving the Soul of the Internet
Ryan Singel at Wired News has a great article on the battle (has it really been ten years? My, how time flies) ten years ago over the Communications Decency Act. The article is entitled “They Saved the Internet’s Soul.” I highly recommend it, it’s only two pages long. This case went all the way to…
Trade Secrets: Hub Group, Inc. v. Clancy – Plaintiff unable to obtain preliminary injunction
The recent case of Hub Group, Inc. v. Clancy, decided by Judge Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on January 25, 2006, provides an interesting look at a trade secrets case (they’re relatively rare when compared to other forms of intellectual property) and it also provides a review of the standards needed in order…
BMG v. Gonzalez: 7th Circuit weighs in on fair use for filesharing
The Seventh Circuit ruled yesterday in the case BMG Music v. Gonzalez, which involves a claim of fair use for songs downloaded from the peer to peer file sharing system, KaZaA. The district court had granted summary judgment to BMG, awarding $22,500 in statutory damages and an injunction against further infringement. Gonzalez then appealed to…
Guest on Internet Cases Podcast
My thanks to Evan Brown who asked me to be a guest on his InternetCases.com podcast to discuss the recent controversy over RSS Hijacking. I’ve written about hijacking here and here. Also interviewed is Rick Klau, the Vice President of Business Development for Feedburner. I was fortunate to meet Rick at Blawgthink 2005. The podcast…
More on RSS Hijacking: The Other Point of View
In my last post on RSS Hijacking, the views there are from the point of view of the podcaster. Lisa Vaas, in a followup to her first article, has written another article for eWeek. This time, she writes about the point of view of the alleged hijacker, in this case the Podkey redirection service. Interestingly,…
RSS Hijacking: Is it Copyright Infringement?
Colette Vogele has a great posting on her blog about the ongoing situation regarding the RSS hijacking of the podcast of Erik Marcus. This is also the subject of an article at eWeek. Briefly, a third party has created a URL that links to the official RSS feed from Erik’s podcast. This URL has been…
Firestorm over Sony DRM continues
So, just what was Sony thinking? Now that the first class-action lawsuit has been filed in California, I’m sure more details on that topic will eventually emerge. Since Sony licenses the software from First 4, it may not have known all of the niceties of just how the software worked. I would not be surprised…