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21 Nov 2008, 3:09 pm
You may remember that as the case that Public Citizen lawyer Paul Alan Levy, in a post at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, said... [read post]
6 Aug 2011, 8:40 am
Paul Alan Levy reports on the doings of one Florida lawyer who “touts his past presidency of the ‘First Amendment Lawyers Association’” but “is apparently not so keen on the free speech rights of others. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 10:53 am
by Paul Alan Levy As previously discussed here, Houlihan Smith, a Chicago investment bank, obtained a temporary restraining order against 800Notes.com after it refused to remove negative comments from consumers (and former employees) but then was denied a preliminary injunction after Julia Forte, the operator of 800Notes, got notice of the suit and was able to call to the Court's attention section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, as well as the plaintiff’s factual… [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 8:21 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a previous post, I discussed abusive trademark claims put forward by Jones Day seeking to suppress speech on the BlockShopper web site about two of its associates that it did not like. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 2:53 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In a decision that apparently expands copyright law far beyond its intended scope, a federal judge has held that a company (in this case, Swatch) that conducts a newsworthy conference with security analysts of its own choosing can register a copyright in its statements, by the simple device of recording the conference, and then bring an infringement action against someone (in this case, Bloomberg) who makes its own record of the statements and provides too much of… [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 2:49 pm
by Paul Alan Levy In an op-ed published today, Larry Lessig calls for reform of the Copyright Code to prevent the sort of political censorship that I discussed a few days ago here. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 6:43 pm
by Paul Alan Levy After Lifestyle Lift sued Justin Leonard for allowing putting its name in the "path" for pages on his infomercialscams.com web site where consumers commented on the merits of Lifestyle's product, claiming trademark infringement and dilution, Leonard issued a warning that the case was so lacking in merit that attorney fees could be awarded if the suit proceeded. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 1:22 pm
by Paul Alan Levy Earlier this month I blogged about the legal issues raised by a subpoena used by a religious cult, Art of Living, relying on a marginal copyright claim as a basis for identifying one of its former members. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 8:33 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged earlier this year about the sudden end of a mass downloading lawsuit that was brought by Texas lawyer Evan Stone against hundreds of individuals who allegedly downloaded his client's "adult" movie. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 8:52 am
by Paul Alan Levy Judge Carl Barbier has issued a significant decision construing and applying the Lousiana anti-SLAPP statute. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 8:33 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged earlier this year about the sudden end of a mass downloading lawsuit that was brought by Texas lawyer Evan Stone against hundreds of individuals who allegedly downloaded his client's "adult" movie. I pointed out then that, after the trial judge appointed me and two EFF lawyers as counsel ad litem for the Doe defendants, and we caught Stone red-handed in a serious violation of the discovery rules, Stone dismissed the lawsuit with… [read post]
24 May 2012, 1:54 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I will confess that, as a lawyer who has dedicated his career to the public interest movement, I was disappointed when Fred von Lohmann, one of the top lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, left to work inhouse at Google. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 8:30 am
Attorney Alan R. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 6:37 pm
Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) reports on the threat, and on his response. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 3:05 pm
by Paul Alan Levy I got a call this afternoon from Michel Ishakian, the Chief for Public Access and Records Management at the Administrative Office of the United States courts. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 10:06 pm
Alan (of Gura & Possessky), Robert (of the Cato Institute), and Clark (of the Institute for Justice) are the lawyers who spearheaded the Heller litigation. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 8:10 am
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company... [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 7:58 am
by Paul Alan Levy New York Times reports on the battle over how tickets may be scalped between two groups claiming to represent fans, the "Fans First Coalition" and the "Fan Freedom Project," each of which is funded by rival companies that run major scalping operations. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:56 pm
Paul Alan Levy sends this along: The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of... [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 12:16 pm
Paul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company against an effort by a Massachusetts software company to use trademark litigation to punish the filmmakers for the portrayal of one of the student leaders in [...] [read post]
