St Louis Manager Tony La Russa has sued Twitter in Superior court in San Francisco over a fake La Russa Twitter account. Text of La Russa complaint here; Citizen Media summary of case here, coverage here. One account reported that La Russa sued after Twitter failed to respond to attempts to contact it.
“What Will Journalism Look Like?”
FastCompany.com: What Will Journalism Look Like?
Twitter CEO On Authentication Of Names Of Twitter Commercial Accounts – Should Twitter Charge or Should Twitter Pay?
From a WSJ interview between Walt Mossberg and Twitter CEO Evan Williams and co-founder Biz Stone. Mossberg had asked Williams about whether commercial accounts on Twitter would be a good idea.
MR. WILLIAMS: The theory is this: There is a lot of commercial usage on Twitter today. There are lots of big brands on
Indiana Supreme Court On Web Development Gone Wrong
I agree with Prof Goldman and Prof Volokh on this one: this is an excellent intro to true everyday cyber law: website customer has payment dispute with website developer so developer ‘seizes’ the site. Contracts, conversion and copyright discussed.
Restraint of Trade in Market for Warhol Works
43(B)log: “Doubled Denied, denied in part“:
Simon-Whelan v. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2009 WL 1457177 (S.D.N.Y.)
Simon-Whelan, as putative class representative for art buyers, alleged that the Foundation and various defendants violated state and federal antitrust laws by conspiring to restrain and monopolize trade in the market for Warhol
License Agreement As Art
A meditation on a ‘user generated submission’ license agreement.
“Will Facebook Give Away Vanity URLs in a Landrush?”
InsideFacebook.com: “Will Facebook Give Away Vanity URLs in a Landrush?“:
Under such a system, users would be able to get URLs like facebook.com/mark for their own personal profiles. (However, some of the most common first names are already taken.)
Administering such a landrush would be a significant challenge. Presumably, Facebook wouldn’t let users
CLEAN v KLEAN Perfume/Cosmetics Trade Dress
From the complaint: Each of plaintiff’s CLEAN products and marketing materials bear inherently distinctive designs and/or such design have acquired distinctivenss wherein the word “CLEAN” appears large and starkly on the labeling with larger than appropriate spacing between each letter of CLEAN. (para. 11). Defendants are selling a line of fragrance and skin care products
Straight Forward ACPA Case From Judge Sotomayor
Mattel v Barbie-Club.com, denying in rem jurisdiction in ACPA case where plaintiff argued that mere deposit of a ‘registration certificate’ gives rise to in rem jurisdiction.
Also – BNA Tech Law round-up of some of the Judge’s ‘cyber’ cases.