Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
My colleague and friend Robin Effron, along with Adam Steinman (a colleague of Tim’s) and Cynthia Fountaine of Texas Wesleyan, has launched the Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog. Not only is Robin an expert on civ pro, but she also has the only set of major philosopher action figures I’ve ever seen…
Update: The action [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Cincinnati, Court Decisions, Law School, Scholarship, civil procedure
Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The guns in RIAA v. Tenenbaum have gone temporarily silent; now, there’s post-game analysis and preparations for the next phase: challenging the jury’s award of $675,000 in damages ($22,500 per song, at 30 songs). Ben Sheffner’s Billboard column gives a great summary of the fight. Tenenbaum’s side will claim that the Copyright Act’s statutory damages [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Blogging, Copyright, Court Decisions, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, First Amendment, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Music, RIAA, Scholarship, civil procedure
Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Yep, it’s all Section 230, all the time here at Info/Law! Makes for a nice change from filtering. Mickey Kaus writes about the threat by Sarah Palin’s attorney to sue anyone defaming her, and also those who republish such defamation. He’s astonished to learn that Section 230 could shield him and other bloggers. (I’d presume [...]
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Filed under: Blogging, Court Decisions, Digital Media, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Law School, Media, Scholarship, Social Networking, civil procedure
Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety has withdrawn its effort to compel the state’s ISPs to filter ~200 gambling Web sites, in the face of a lawsuit filed by iMEGA. State officials are maintaining a brave (poker) face, along with some bad analogies – they claim not to have “folded their hand.” John Willems – the [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Court Decisions, Digital Media, First Amendment, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Minnesota, civil procedure
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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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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