A bill introduced in the Illinois state senate last week, styled the “Internet Posting Removal Act,” would require all web site administrators, upon request, to remove any posted comments posted by an anonymous poster unless he or she agrees to … Continue reading
A federal court in Arizona dismissed copyright infringement claims in which the Ripoff Report — an online consumer complaint posting forum — contended that its competitor, ComplaintsBoard.com, “encourage[d] and permit consumers to post content that has been exclusively licensed to” … Continue reading
A court in Formosa, a province in northeastern Argentina, ordered social media giant Facebook within 48 hours to remove from its website an anonymous page that allegedly invaded the privacy of a woman and defamed her business. B.C c Facebook … Continue reading
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court upheld the denial of unemployment benefits to a claimant whose former employer fired him for posting disparaging comments about his workplace and co-workers on the micro-blogging website Twitter. Burns v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, No. … Continue reading
Both houses of the Illinois state legislature have passed a bill that would prohibit employers from asking their employees and prospective employees to provide passwords or other account information about the individual’s social networking accounts or profiles, or to demand … Continue reading
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed claims by a film copyright owner against 244 “John Doe” defendants who allegedly uploaded and downloaded on the Internet digital copies of the film while using the BitTorrent … Continue reading
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave a restrictive reading to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), rejecting its use to remedy violations of a private company’s computer use policies by the company’s employee. United States v. Nosal, … Continue reading
The Canadian Supreme Court held that, by itself, a hyperlink to a third party’s website containing allegedly defamatory statements links does not constitute a publication of those statements for purposes of imposing defamation liability on the linking party. Crookes v. … Continue reading
An individual who had been a company’s “video and social media producer,” and was responsible for maintaining social media pages used to market the company’s products, refused to deliver the usernames and passwords for those social media accounts to her … Continue reading
In a recently-released ethics opinion, a committee of American Bar Association (“ABA”) opined that in some circumstances, an attorney has an obligation to warn an individual client that there is a risk that the client’s employer may gain access to … Continue reading
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