June 2004

According to the Wall Street Journal, MLB Advanced Media, the online divsion of Major League Baseball, will not sign deals with companies that use spyware to serve ads.  The article defines spyware as software that once installed on the user’s machine, reports on the user’s activities so as to determine which ads to serve

Sixth Circuit: POWERZONE for Radio Shack’s ‘store-within-store’ is not confusingly similar to and has not caused actual dilution of AUTOZONE for auto part chain.

AutoZone v. Tandy, 01-6571 (6th Circuit  June 29, 2004)

Fourth Circuit: Copyright owner’s claims against ISP for direct infringement dismissed, as ISP would have to commit volitional acts to be liable for direct, as opposed to indirect infringement.

CoStar v. LoopNet, 03-1991 (Fourth Circuit,  June 21, 2004).