MaryClaire Dale of The Associated Press reports that Lower Merion School District will pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits stemming over webcam surveillance on district-issued laptops. District officials say they voted Monday night to pay Robbins $175,000 and his lawyer, Mark Haltzman, $425,000 for his work on the case. A second student will get $10,000.
Category: Court
The Slow Demise of Defamation and the Privacy Torts
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…
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,…