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California Supreme Court says individuals not liable for defamatory online third party acts

California Supreme Court says individuals not liable for defamatory online third party actsWell it makes since to meAfter all why should I be held liable for what someone else said? and making me liable would stifle free speech ...Just my 2 cents worth ...

Tags: third party act, California Supreme Court

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

California Supreme Court says individuals not liable for defamatory online third party acts

The California Supreme Courts opinion in Barrett v. Rosenthal issued today, and, as was widely anticipated, the Court reversed the appellate decision that was under review. Although the case involved a newsgroup posting, todays decision is nevertheless excellent news for bloggers, and brings California law in line with that...

Tags: Blogging, Podcasting, User generated content, Video, Defamation

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Not thy commenter's keeper

Based on the reactions of many of those who attended oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Barrett v. Rosenthal, indications are strong that the Court will come down on the side of protecting those who provide a platform for, but do not author or edit, third party comments...

Tags: Section 230

Blog posts 2006-09-09

Additional Resources

Modern threats to American liberty

Cash, currency and coins, is a store of value. In the US, "legal tender for all debts, public and private." Carry too much of it though and you are marked for suspicion (per the Wall Street Journal]: Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Transportation Security Administration, Government, ATM, Policies And Procedures, Storage, Internet, Networking, Human Resources, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-04

U.S. Supreme Court rules for AT&T in antitrust suit

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday for a subsidiary of AT&T in an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of anti-competitive practices over high-speed Internet access. The justices unanimously rejected a claim that AT&T's Pacific Bell Telephone subsidiary had engaged in a "price squeeze" aimed at driving...

Tags: Antitrust, AT&T Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-25

AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-off

AMD wins approval for manufacturing spin-offx86 licenseAren't you going to address the issue concerning Intel nullifying its x86 technology license to AMD, or has that been resolved?Lawyers started to work on that issue 2 years agoI think Intel has raised it a couple of times, but mainly as a FUD...

Tags: Processors, manufacturing, Intel x86, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., x86 license

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Patent wars: RealNetworks wins; Global Crossing pays up

RealNetworks defeated a patent infringement suit that was trying to come back from the dead. Meanwhile, Global Crossing licensed a portfolio of call center patents from Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, an outfit that collects dough from a who's who of corporate America. First, RealNetworks said on...

Tags: Patent, Global Crossing Ltd., RealNetworks Inc., Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, Katz, Ronald Katz, RAKTL, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and Freescale

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and FreescalePaul-the-pseudonym is probably rightFor a long time, Apple has been managing its supply chain as a lean, JIT organization with a good deal of outsourcing. Their strategy: We are the best at design, let's increasingly move manufacturing and integration to subcontractors willing to...

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PPC

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs

IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docsDid he work in or will he work in California?If so, the non-compete is unenforceable. Even if not, he can point to the recent court case in Cali that found non-competes to be unenforceable.RE: IBM sues brainiac looking to leap...

Tags: IBM Corp., Apple Inc., doc

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of Wax

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of WaxAnd this is whyour Founding Fathers pushed for as limited a government as possible. If our federal government actually stayed within its constitutional limits, this debate and its corresponding corruption and graft wouldn't exist.Again, you are deliberately misreading historyIt is as foolish...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, government, U.S. Constitution, Medicare

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

The insurers bid to fix health care

The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Ripping vs. Transcoding

Ripping vs. Transcodingripping?I thought ripping was illegal in US, thanks to our congress and good ol' juges.I'm wondering how AnyDVD stayed off the legal radar so long.I'm also wondering who will ever need 6 DVDs ripped at once.For 99% percent of people ripping one DVD at a time is just...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicion

Is your laptop your digital "home"? Um, no, the ("liberal" - that always makes me laugh) Ninth Circuit ruled Monday in US v Arnold. At least not at the border or at the international terminal of a US airport. Michael Arnold arrived at LAX from the Philippines,...

Tags: Suspicion, Mobile, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Mac Clones and Psystar

Back in August of 2006 I outlined a business plan for a guy in California who wanted to go after the PPC market Apple was then abandoning. There were three keys to my plan: a manufacturing and sales partnership with a major defence contractor; a commitment from Freescale...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Hardware, Data General, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-19

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you

Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and youThe question iswhy shouldn't the NSA have the same access to information Google has? The gathering of information is vital to National Defense. It must be controlled with checks and balances to prevent abuse.The United against a common enemy States of...

Tags: Databases, SECURITY, NSA, totalitarianism, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Things getting hot on the Comcast front

Things getting hot on the Comcast frontComcast Is A Joke AnywayThey are the butt of every ISP provider's joke and a pox on the online community.Here's the deal. Comcast doesn't want any major video streaming..If users figure out how to watch movies/shows over the internet, they will dump their...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, HTTP, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

License-plate scanners are transforming police work

The suspect: A man had rammed a 12-year-old girl with his car, pulled her inside and tried to sexually assault her. The girl fought back and escaped. The officer: San Jose, Calif., Officer Max Boyer, on routine patrol discovered the car parked last Monday. By Friday, Donald Bachmann, 27,...

Tags: Car, Scanner, San Francisco Chronicle, American Civil Liberties Union, Technology, Productivity, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Police Blotter: Fired worker blames porn on malware

Police Blotter: Fired worker blames porn on malwareagreed nt.He could have been set upWhat's to say that his employer set him up for a fall? Surely a supervisor has his username and password. What's to stop them from using his account and going to a bad site or even placing...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, hospital, Police Blotter, malware, worker

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

And on the Microsoft legal circuit...

And on the Microsoft legal circuit...Tick, tick, tick[i]California and a handful of other states told the judge overseeing Microsoft's compliance with the terms of its antitrust settlement with the U.S. government that the Consent Decree has done little to curb Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior.[/i]And this matters any more -- how?Come November,...

Tags: Linux, Corporate law, Processors, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

Lawgarithms Links for 8/20/07

Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:California court invalidates Alienware arbitration provision in online terms and conditions, from Internet Cases by Evan Brown"Among other things,...

Tags: Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-20