Media in India have been covering the Tyler Clementi case in New Jersey because of the involvement of an “Indian-American,” as as some of their headlines have described one of the defendants, Dharun Ravi. In today’s coverage, ANI reports: The lawyer for an Indian origin student in New Jersey university who has been charged with…
Category: Court
German court sets file sharing damages at €15, not €300
A German court has said that a teenager who was guilty of posting copyrighted material to a file sharing network must pay €15 in damages per track and not the €300 the rights holders were demanding. The court said that the basis for a fine should be the amount that reasonable parties would agree as…
Message Board Operator Fights Discovery Order Requiring Disclosure of Identities and Private Messages — Concerned Citizens for Crystal City v. City of Crystal City
Venkat Balasubramani discusses a case in which the identities of everyone who posted in a forum were requested as part of discovery: Concerned Citizens for Crystal City, et al. v. City of Crystal City, et al., No. ED 94135 (Mo. Ct. App.; Oct. 26, 2010) As background, the case concerns a group and forum created…
Utah statute requiring sex offenders to register Internet identifiers violates neither First nor Fourth Amendments nor ex post facto clause
Via FourthAmendment.com: A Utah statute that required that sex offenders register their Internet identifiers with the state violates neither the First nor the Fourth Amendment. As to the Fourth Amendment, there is no high privacy interest in the identifiers that a person uses on the Internet because it is voluntarily provided to third parties. It…