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18 Jan 2022, 11:01 am
[The latest from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), pushing back against threats of trademark litigation over parody.] [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 2:09 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Eric Goldman’s comments on Judge Alsup’s followup to his “identify your shills order” contains a line that reminds me what irks me so about the series of orders: “Perhaps one lesson to take away from all this: if you're a litigant and your filings cite a published work by your expert/consultant, maybe you need to disclose that. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 2:54 pm
by Paul Alan Levy The Seventh Circuit today issued an important decision confirming that fair use can be determined at an early stage of a copyright case, based on nothing more than a side-by-side comparison of the copyrighted work and the later work claimed to infringe. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 10:37 am
by Paul Alan Levy In early June, I described a recent decision by a United States Magistrate Judge in Colorado who had been persuaded to adopt a weaker than normal standard to decide whether anonymous Internet posters should be identified when a plaintiff seeks to sue them becauce their speech allegedly violates the plaintiff’s rights. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 2:19 pm
by Paul Alan Levy The blogosphere has been reverbrating today with news of the settlement of Dow Jones’ lawsuit against Briefing.com, which features an admission by the defendant of liability for copyright infringement and DMCA violations, as well as “common law misappropriation of certain ‘hot news’ including the news headlines listed in Exhibit D of the Complaint. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 8:02 am
by Paul Alan Levy I have blogged in the past about servile Internet hosts that provide information in response to subpoenas without giving their customers a chance to oppose discovery by showing that they have done nothing wrong. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 10:51 am
” [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P, on a business's threats against the "Insurance Forums" website] Tags: bullying businesses, libel slander and defamation, online speech Related posts Latest customer-complaint-website suit (2) Why defamation law protects opinion (2) Update: Schenectady BBS defamation (0) Update: Dow Jones settles online defamation suit (0) Update: CAIR using litigation to silence critics? [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:36 am
“A SLAPP statute that depends on a finding that the suit was brought in bad faith is nearly worthless,” writes Paul Alan Levy of a Maryland enactment that was not enough to save the publisher of the “Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter” blog. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 9:44 am
While this seems strange, it is no worse than the many false allegations that have been levied against the millions of disability benefits recipients who greatly depend on their benefits. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 6:41 am
This week, fellow Boston health care blogger Paul Levy (Running a Hospital) continues to chronicle the thrust-and-parry between SEIU and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is CEO, as the SEIU's tactics get some ink in the NY Times. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 12:04 pm
Paul Sherman, 20, of Fulton, Missouri, Levi Morris, 39, of Emporia, Kansas, and Trinette Wofford, 18, of Columbia, Missouri, were involved in a two vehicle crash June 16th, 2010 on southbound US 54 at South Outer Road in Callaway County. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 6:51 pm
Paul Levy, the blogging CEO at Running A Hospital provides some advice to a West Virginia medical student who responded to his post "Students, Are you curious? [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 3:05 am
Fuller investigation of that “reputation management” ruse of filing dummy court cases with the aim of getting critical web posts taken down [Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy, Levy first and second followups, earlier here and here] “When Civic Participation Means Shaming A Non-Voter’s Kid” [my Cato post about an ill-considered public service announcement] Why America’s regulation problem is so intractable: Fortune magazine cover… [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 11:30 am
by Paul Alan Levy When I first heard about Chik-fil-A’s threats against Vermont silk-screen artist Bo Muller-Moore over his use of the slogan “Eat More Kale,” claiming that the slogan infringes or dilutes their trademark in the advertising slogan “Eat Mor Chikin” my first reaction was outrage. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 11:30 am
by Paul Alan Levy The lawsuit filed by Florida TV production company Vision Media TV group against Julia Forte has been dismissed. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 8:01 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Late last summer I described on this blog a disturbing decision by a federal magistrate judge that disregarded the consensus rule by which courts across the country have balanced the rights of plaintiffs claiming to have been wronged against the First Amendment right to speak anonymously in deciding whether to enforce subpoenas seeking identifying information. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 3:46 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I have blogged before about a suit brought by "Vision Media Television," against the consumer-complaint website 800Notes.com, for allowing the posting of messages that criticize Vision Media's misleading telemarketing claims. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 3:57 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Jenzabar, a Boston-based educational software company run by the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, continues in its efforts to abuse trademark law to punish the makers of a documentary film that shows one of the company's founders making brash statements as a student, hoping for a bloodbath that would spur a popular uprising in China, that she has since come to regret. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 8:06 am
by Paul Alan Levy Last month, I discussed the appellate brief filed by Rosetta Stone in its appeal from a trial court’s dismissal of its trademark lawsuit over Google’s practice of allowing advertisers to pay for ads directed to Google users who express an interest in trademarked terms. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 1:57 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Nearly five years after he withdrew subpoenas to Google seeking to identify four anonymous bloggers who commented on his expulsion from a rabbinical council and his dismissal from his synagogue over allegations that he had abused his religious authority to have sexual relations with congregants, Orthodox rabbi Mordechai Tendler has issued a new subpoena to Google demanding identification of the same bloggers (plus one more). [read post]
