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5 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm
“Tenured Wisconsin Prof Sues Former Student Over Online Comments on Her Teaching” [Caron/TaxProf] Recent Paul Alan Levy profile: “The web bully’s worst enemy” [Washingtonian] HHS signals it won’t pursue case against blogger [Levy, earlier] Arizona Yelp case angle [Scott Greenfield] Get your ideas out of town: threats against hotel “have escalated to include death threats, physical violence against our staff and other… [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 8:52 pm
by Paul Alan LevyLast year I expressed concern in this space that the federal courts seemed to be responding to the RECAP the Law project -- which is designed to build up a database of federal court records that would be available free of charge -- by using scare tactics to discourage participation. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 6:39 am
by Paul Alan LevyNorth Face has sued a company called “South Butt,” whose slogan “Never Stop Relaxing” is a deliberate poke at the fashionable outdoors clothing company's "never stop exploring. [read post]
18 May 2014, 3:51 am
That’s where a guy like Paul Alan Levy comes into play. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 3:09 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Over the past couple of months, I have discussed the heavily redacted filings in Rosetta Stone’s appeal of a ruling that Google did not violate the trademark laws by allowing advertisers to bid on the display of ads to Internet users who searched on Google for the term “Rosetta Stone. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 2:17 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Accepting an argument advanced by Public Citizen as amicus curiae as well as by Xcentric Ventures, the operator of Ripoff Report, a Florida appeals court has held that section 230's immunity for the providers of interactive computer services extends to requests for injunctive relief and not just to claims for damages. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 12:58 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In today’s Washington Post, John Feinstein captures an important truth about college sports –- the print headline of his column is: “Greed is the most powerful tradition in college football. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 8:13 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Today I received this email from Boston.com, the online site for the Boston Globe. [read post]
12 May 2011, 12:41 pm
by Paul Alan Levy When I posted my criticism of Bluehost’s mistreatment of customers, I extended an invitation to its founder to respond on this blog. [read post]
9 May 2011, 4:41 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Deepak Gupta has just posted about an excellent decision firmly rejecting both Koch Industries’ trademark and other claims over a satirical press release making fun of the Koch brothers’ funding of climate change denial, as well as Koch’s effort to obtain information identifying the critics. [read post]
10 May 2012, 3:17 pm
by Paul Alan Levy We have stepped in to defend a blogger against a motion to compel him to identify the author or authors of two anonymous comments to one of his stories. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 7:48 am
by Paul Alan Levy A recent blog post by Aaron Krowne, castigating the rejection of an anti-SLAPP motion filed by his company ML-Implode.com as "bizarre ruling" and "blatant miscarriage of justice," has gained wide circulation on the Internet. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 12:52 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In Miller v. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 4:56 pm
by Paul Alan Levy The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of the trademark abuses previously discussed on this blog, such as here and here, but from the Republican National Committee, which has threatened to sue CafePress.com because its users are selling t-shirts, stickers and other items bearing designs that refer to Republicans and Republican candidates using the initials… [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 5:27 am
by Paul Alan Levy Anyone who has volunteered for a community group has no doubt noticed the proliferation of silly forms that have to be signed in the course of the relationship. [read post]
24 May 2012, 11:43 am
by Paul Alan Levy For more than twenty years, before a few Internet free speech cases wandered across my desk and led me into my current area of specialization, I spent most of my time at Public Citizen representing rank-and-file union members in litigation over their right to campaign for change within their unions, and their rights vis-a-vis management given the fact that managers often try to rid themselves of workers who rock the boat about complaisant union leaders. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 2:59 pm
by Paul Alan Levy For more than three decades, the courts have recognized a general policy under both the common law and the First Amendment under which judicial records — both briefs that argue how judges should resolve cases, and the evidence submitted in support of those arguments — should be open to the public unless there are very good reasons why particular pieces of evidence should be kept secret. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 7:21 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I am pleased to announce that, in a response to public outcry as well as the prospect of a declaratory judgment, the Republican National Committee has renounced the vast majority of the trademark claims that it advanced with a threat of litigation against CafePress for allowing its users to sell Tshirts and other items displaying images that included the acronym "GOP" and the "official elephant logo" in which it has a registered trademark. [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 7:37 am
by Paul Alan Levy Corynne McSherry and Eric Goldman have posted a timely joint warning about an effort within the Trademark Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association to put forward a series of resolutions that are apparently designed to revive the hitherto unsuccessful litigation efforts by trademark owners to prevent their competitors (and occasionally critics) from using keyword advertising and similar techniques to promote comparative and critical… [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 1:38 pm
In pertinent part, Wolk said this: You relied I believe on an equally erroneous posting by Paul Alan levy which is why he is now sued. [read post]
