contributory infringement

American Airlines Pursues Another Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Over Keywords

Ryan Gile
October 22, 2008 23:12

Eric Goldman writes on his Technology & Marketing Law Blog about the new lawsuit filed by American Airlines against Yahoo! And Overture (dba Yahoo Marketing Services) over “keyword” advertising. See American Airlines, Inc. v. Yahoo! Inc. et al, Case No. 08-00626 (N.D. Tex. Filed October 17, 20...

Direct Infringement and Digital Video Recorders: Catch as Cache Can

September 09, 2008 14:47

Cartoon Network LP v. CSC Holdings, Inc., --- F.3d ---, 2008 WL 252614 (August 4, 2008). Instead of taking a satellite signal and broadcasting it straight into your home at the time dictated by the broadcaster, your local cable company sets up a very fancy digital box (Digital Video Recorder or...

Creative Commons, Open Source, Copyright and Contract Law

September 06, 2008 17:38

For a number of years, activists dismayed at how commercial enterprises exploited copyright agitated to change the nature of how copyrighted works affected creative collaboration. They imagined a world of greater creative collaboration where everyone would still be able to make a living.Authors,...

User-Generated Video Uploads Veoh, Napster, Google and Safe Harbors

August 29, 2008 19:15

In Io Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., No. C06-03926 (HRL), a decision dated August 27, 2008 by Northern District of California Judge Harold Lloyd, discussed by PC Magazine here, the court found that the video uploading service found at http://www.veoh.com/ is not liable for copyright...

Rosetta Stone Files Trademark Infringement Lawsuit Against Rocket Languages Over Keyword Advertising “Piggybacking”

Ryan Gile
July 17, 2008 04:53

On July 2, 2008, Rosetta Stone Ltd., the maker of the Rosetta Stone line of interactive computer software for learning many different foreign languages, filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against two New Zealand companies,...