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17 Feb 9:46 am
... humanitarian scholar would do under such circumstances: She sued Yahoo and Alta Vista for trademark infringement, invasion of privacy, and "disregard of Bev Stayart's rights." The case presents a few difficulties. Leaving aside the problem of proving that there are no other Beverly Stayarts in the entire world who use the internet, as technology lawyer Eric Goldman points out, federal law shielding websites from liability
for third party ...
16 Feb 1:26 pm
... world. It's a little unclear from the complaint exactly what's going on to make Bev Stayart unhappy, but it looks like she ran into some
cloaked search ... Overture. First, if there is or has been even one other Bev or Beverly Stayart in
the world, the plaintiff has a real problem proving that the online references were ... and let me know what might explain the widespread redundant distribution of Bev Stayart's resume information at mulitple no-name services. Is this what a typical reputation management ...
8 Sep 4:05 pm
... 2840478 (E.D. Wis. Aug. 28, 2009) Earlier this year, I blogged about Beverly Stayart's quixotic
lawsuit against Yahoo and others for showing search ... claims and then dismissed the remainder of her lawsuit on procedural grounds, allowing Stayart to refile those claims in state court if she chooses. (She shouldn ... declines supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims. The court also
rejects Stayart's guffaw-inducing request for sanctions against the defendants for having the temerity of moving ...
17 Sep 3:58 pm
... make a commercial use of her name to bring a claim under the Lanham Act. Stayart v. Yahoo!, Inc., E.D. Wisc., No. 09-C-116 ... bring such
claims. Judge Randa's decision is squarely in the middle. The Plaintiff, Beverly Stayart, worked for
a number of major Chicago financial institutions, eventually attaining the rank ... could be associated with the Plaintiff. On its face, this would appear to permit a plaintiff like Ms.
Stayart to sue if her name was used to show her sponsorship with a product or service ...
6 Sep 3:14 pm
... v. Yahoo! Inc., 2009 WL 2840478 (E.D. Wis.) Beverly Stayart searched her own name and "didn't
like the results." She ... approval of a product or service. In order to have prudential standing under the Lanham Act, Stayart needed to
allege at least an existing intent to commercialize her identity. This she didn ... snippets from other sites, how can it possibly be distinguished from the New York Times using
Stayart's name in a story?) The distinction between appropriation and the right to publicity (based ...
16 Sep 8:27 am
From Tech Dirt: Earlier this year, we wrote about a woman named Beverly Stayart, who had sued Yahoo
over what she found when she did a search on her name. Her complaint was that some of the links advertised ... that this was a violation of her trademark and privacy rights..... Earlier
this week, the court dismissed the lawsuit against Yahoo and denied Stayart's request to refile. The court had trouble with the idea that this
was a trademark claim, noting that just because she does not like how her ...
10 Sep 3:07 am
A judge said the search service was not legally responsible for icky items that Mrs. Stayart found in a search on her name [Ars Technica,
Popehat, earlier] More: Citizen Media Law. Tags: search engines Related posts Suing Yahoo over search results (0)
2 Sep 10:42 am
You lost the bet. Now, "it will be interesting to see your apology" Fred. Background here.
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