Australian Online Forum Sued Because Users Wrote How They Didn't Like...
While there are lots of problematic laws when it comes to the internet, two things that the US got right (though, in otherwise troublesome laws) was putting in various "safe harbor" provisions that...
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Last week I was wondering why the various mobile operators couldn't just be honest to customers in explaining the limitations of various service plans. A report had come out saying that people were...
View ArticleWhat's The Liability For A Service Provider Who Ignores Takedown Notices?
We've gone on at length over the years concerning safe harbors for online service providers, noting that service providers shouldn't (and usually don't, under the law) have liability for illegal...
View ArticleYes, DMCA Safe Harbors Apply To Websites
Every once in a while, when discussing the DMCA's "safe harbors" someone shows up in the comments to insist that the safe harbors were never intended to apply to websites, but merely to ISPs. Tim Lee...
View ArticleCourt Ruling In Veoh Case Could Be A Big Boost To YouTube Over Viacom
A judge has ruled that online video hosting site Veoh is not guilty of copyright infringement for videos uploaded by its users. The judge made the proper ruling here, noting that the DMCA's safe...
View ArticleCraigslist Pressured Into Policing Ads For Prostitution
We've talked plenty about how New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been using legal threats to get companies to change business practices, even if those practices aren't illegal. But, he's not...
View ArticleTurns Out You Can't Sue SexSearch.com If The Girl You Met Via It Is Underage
Another day, another case where someone tried to blame a website for the actions of its users. In this case, a guy used the website SexSearch (seriously) to find someone to have sex with (ah, the...
View ArticleGerman Appeals Court Says Video Hosting Platform Not Liable For User Uploaded...
Earlier this year, we wrote about a German lower court ruling that found YouTube liable for copyright infringement, for the actions of a user, uploading a Sarah Brightman song to the platform. As I...
View ArticleDid Japan And Korea Just Make Life Really Difficult For Any Cloud Service...
For a while we followed the important Cablevision remote DVR case, in which the entertainment industry argued that Cableivision offering a hosted DVR service for its users was infringing on their...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Wikileaks Censorship And PROTECT IP: Censorship...
The always thought-provoking Yochai Benkler, has a new paper, which, unfortunately (and pointlessly given Benkler's key points -- see update below), is locked up behind an MIT paywall. It explores the...
View ArticleCourt Shelves Washington State Law That Would Turn Service Providers Into...
Back in June, we wrote about a challenge -- from both the Village Voice's Backpage.com and the Internet Archive to a new law in Washington State, SB 6251, that effectively criminalized online service...
View ArticleCongressional Moral Panic Over The Fact That Prostitutes Now Use Twitter
Politicians seem to love nothing more than to go into full on grandstanding mode whenever you mix the internet and prostitution, leaving pretty much all facts by the wayside. This often results in...
View ArticleAustralian Online Forum Sued Because Users Wrote How They Didn't Like...
While there are lots of problematic laws when it comes to the internet, two things that the US got right (though, in otherwise troublesome laws) was putting in various "safe harbor" provisions that...
View ArticleService Providers Can't Be Honest With Themselves, So How Can They Be Honest...
Last week I was wondering why the various mobile operators couldn't just be honest to customers in explaining the limitations of various service plans. A report had come out saying that people were...
View ArticleWhat's The Liability For A Service Provider Who Ignores Takedown Notices?
We've gone on at length over the years concerning safe harbors for online service providers, noting that service providers shouldn't (and usually don't, under the law) have liability for illegal...
View ArticleYes, DMCA Safe Harbors Apply To Websites
Every once in a while, when discussing the DMCA's "safe harbors" someone shows up in the comments to insist that the safe harbors were never intended to apply to websites, but merely to ISPs. Tim Lee...
View ArticleCourt Ruling In Veoh Case Could Be A Big Boost To YouTube Over Viacom
A judge has ruled that online video hosting site Veoh is not guilty of copyright infringement for videos uploaded by its users. The judge made the proper ruling here, noting that the DMCA's safe...
View ArticleCraigslist Pressured Into Policing Ads For Prostitution
We've talked plenty about how New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been using legal threats to get companies to change business practices, even if those practices aren't illegal. But, he's not...
View ArticleTurns Out You Can't Sue SexSearch.com If The Girl You Met Via It Is Underage
Another day, another case where someone tried to blame a website for the actions of its users. In this case, a guy used the website SexSearch (seriously) to find someone to have sex with (ah, the...
View ArticleGerman Appeals Court Says Video Hosting Platform Not Liable For User Uploaded...
Earlier this year, we wrote about a German lower court ruling that found YouTube liable for copyright infringement, for the actions of a user, uploading a Sarah Brightman song to the platform. As I...
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