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Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
Jan 9th
paidContent reports the lawsuit brought against Google in 2008 over quality of ads showing on parked or error message web pages has been thrown out by the court. On Thursday, January 5th, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila turned down the class action suit brought against Google. He said he would…
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Lawsuit Over Twitter Followers May Not Set Precedent For Similar Cases
Jan 2nd
The outcome of a lawsuit in which a company is suing a former employee over Twitter followers will most likely hinge on how the list was developed and what value each side places on the followers, according to legal experts.
“This case is another example of the application of relatively old legal rules applied to new technology,” said Bill Nolan, an attorney with Barnes & Thornburg LLP. “It’s the 2011 version of the salesperson taking the Rolodex when he/she leaves the company.”
PhoneDog cleared the first hurdle in the lawsuit earlier last month when a court rejected Noah Kravitz’s request to dismiss the lawsuit. PhoneDog is seeking $340,000 from Kravitz, or about $2.50 for each Twitter user that started following the account @Phonedog_Noah while he was tweeting and writing for the online publication. When ravitz left the company in October 2010 he changed the account’s handle to @noahkravitz and retained the more than 17,000 followers he had amassed while working for PhoneDog.
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Nolan said the case is fact specific, meaning the outcome will be determined by the specific facts of the case and is unlikely to set blanket precedents for similar lawsuits in the future. Nolan expects the case to be decided on whether the employee or the employer invested more time in creating the list and whether the list contains valuable, proprietary information that will not be easily recreated.
“If a team from the company sat in a conference room and designed a strategy under which the now-departed employee would tweet on topics to the benefit of the company, that’s a very different story than if the employee on his initiative started using Twitter to boost his job performance,” Nolan said.
The case is being closely watched by companies that have employees use social media as part of their job function, as well as employees who may want to retain control of a Twitter account after leaving a firm. But since the case is fact specific, it ultimately may hold little bearing on similar disputes.
“The takeaway for employers and employees alike is to have clarity on these subjects up front. Employers seeking to protect lists of Twitter followers developed by employees in the course of employment should have policies and agreements saying so,” Nolan said. “Employees seeking to use these lists after they leave employment should consult with counsel to ensure that they proceed without subjecting themselves to undue legal risk.”
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Judge Throws Out Class Action Lawsuit Against Yelp
Oct 26th
Yelp is off the hook, again. A judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit filed against Yelp that alleged the company tried to extort small businesses by promising to remove negative reviews in exchange for money. As we reported when the suit was first filed in February 2010, the plaintiffs…
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Twitter Settles Lawsuit, Gets “Tweet” Trademark
Oct 11th
Twitter and Twittad have settled their dispute over the word “tweet,” though Twittad will retain the right to use the tagline, “Let your ad meet tweets.”
Twitter has been trying to trademark “tweet” since Apri…
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Google Books Lawsuit: Trial Proceedings Move Ahead, While Negotiations Continue
Sep 15th
The lawsuit over Google Books is back on track for trial, but purposely with enough time to allow the parties involved to keep negotiating a settlement. In a New York City courtroom today, Judge Denny Chin heard from Google, the Authors Guild and the American Association Of Publishers about…
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SEO Legal Services weighs in on big anti-foreclosure lawsuit – Athens NEWS
Sep 6th
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SEO Legal Services weighs in on big anti-foreclosure lawsuit
Athens NEWS An attorney with a local legal aid agency has signed onto a "friend of the court" brief filed with the Ohio Supreme Court in a case that could have a big impact on home foreclosures in the state. The brief, in US Bank National … |
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Lawsuit Accuses comScore of Major Privacy Violations
Aug 28th
A lawsuit filed on August 23 accuses comScore of recording private consumer information (including social security numbers and payment data), manipulating computer security settings without authorization, and embedding their software in other appl…
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Google Gets Chance To Appeal In Street View Lawsuit
Jul 19th
Just a couple weeks after the latest setback, Google picked up a small but potentially important victory today in its defense against charges that the company violated federal wiretap laws when its Street View cars intercepted personal data over unencrypted WiFi networks. As the San Francisco…
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