Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
Pretty drunk, apparently. The key issue is whether you’ll drive it well, or instead plow into a reef and spill millions of gallons of oil into a fragile ecosystem.
My friend and colleague Colette Routel has written an amicus brief on the Exxon case (that’s the Exxon Valdez case). She’s also explained the case to the [...]
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Filed under: Court Decisions, Law School, Minnesota, Scholarship, Video, civil procedure, international
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
The Detroit Free Press’s Shawn Windsor has written a great piece on the nasty contract dispute between Rich Rodriguez, the new football coach at the University of Michigan, and his former employer, West Virginia University. (Disclaimer: he talked with me about the contract dispute, and kindly sent me the current set of filings in the [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Derek Bambauer
8 April 2008: The Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project has kindly posted a description of this dispute.
then try contacting my boss! [See analysis of the latest order in the case, above.]
Recently, I wrote a post on Garrido v. Krasnansky, where a Vermont family court judge ordered the husband in a divorce case to take [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Court Decisions, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Scholarship, civil procedure
Posted on November 9th, 2007 by William McGeveran
My post from yesterday on Facebook’s Social Ads program got picked up by bloggers at the New York Times and CNet, so I’ve heard some more feedback than usual. Here’s a few more thoughts on the issue in response to themes emerging from the conversation:
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Filed under: Blogging, Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Peer Production, Privacy, Social Networking, civil procedure
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by William McGeveran
[UPDATE: As expected, the jury found liability for copyright infringement and awarded the recording industry $222,000. That is considerably less than the $3.6 million in damages theoretically available, but still represents a win for the RIAA. It will be interesting to see if this discourages other defendants from fighting through to trial.]
The [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Minnesota, Music, RIAA, civil procedure
Posted on September 29th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Earlier this week I taught the case of DiMeo v. Max in civil procedure. As Derek explained the district court ruling last year in this space , it was both a funny opinion and also a clear explanation of the federal-law immunity that certain web sites enjoy for user-generated content that might otherwise give [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2007 by William McGeveran
I chuckled when I saw the headline on this AP story in my local St. Paul newspaper last week: Red Cross Sued for Using Red Cross. It’s often pretty easy to make trademark law look silly. (I know because I’ve spent all summer writing an article about it — coming soon to an [...]
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Filed under: Media, Scholarship, Trademarks, civil procedure
Posted on August 1st, 2007 by William McGeveran
Don’t worry, no spoilers here.
I stayed up way past my bedtime last night finishing the final Harry Potter book. I found it very satisfying. But this is a law blog, and I am a geeky law professor, so the phenomenon I will note is how extensively these books develop the theme of procedural [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Genarlow Wilson, you may recall, is the young man sentenced to a 10-year mandatory sentence in Georgia for occurrences at a wild hotel room New Year’s Eve party with other high schoolers when he was 17 years old. He was acquitted of raping a 17-year-old girl who said that she was intoxicated and that [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, civil procedure
Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by William McGeveran
[Cross-posted at Concurring Opinions.]
Brian Leiter notes this news story about a South Korean law which has just taken effect, requiring large web sites to obtain real names and the equivalent of Social Security numbers from everyone who posts content. He compares this approach to that taken in the US where, he says, “there exist only [...]
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