Daniel Solove writes: The ABA Journal reports that the number of libel suits has been steadily dropping in the United States […] Why is this happening? Is it because there’s much less defamation or invasion of privacy today? I strongly doubt that’s the reason. Instead, I can think of several reasons for the decline in…
Category: Court
NL: BREIN and Usenet Portal Face Off In Court Over Legality
In another anti-piracy case in foreign news this week, anti-piracy group BREIN tried to convice a Dutch court that a usenet group (FTD) that publishes the locations of where copyrighted materials can be (illegally) downloaded is equivalent to publishing the material itself. Torrent Freak reports: … Lawyer Gijsbert Brunt began by outlining how FTD operates. He…
IE: Record labels lose file sharing case against UPC (updated)
Ciara O’Brien reports that although the High Court was sympathetic to record labels who are losing money due to illegal file-sharing and downloading, it held that Irish law does not permit enforcement of any “three strikes” rule that would require ISPs to cut off users upon notification by the label companies. Warner Music, Universal Music,…
Binyam Mohammed, Van Morrison and Ruth Hickey – three unsuccessful privacy claims
Inforrm’s Blog recaps three privacy lawsuits that failed in the courts this past week. One of the unsuccessful cases (Hickey) has previously been mentioned on this site. And while I covered Van Morrison’s successful privacy case against News of the World, it seems that he was not successful in a second similar action against the Sunday Independent….