A decision has been reached in a Canadian case on outing anonymous commenters. Dan Michaluk writes: Yesterday the Divisional Court held that a motions judge erred in requiring the owner/operator of a right-wing internet message board to disclose the identities of eight John Doe defendants who had posted commentary about lawyer Richard Warman. The case…
Category: Court
What’s going on with Dutch passports?
There have been a few stories recently mentioning concerns about Dutch passports and the database of fingerprints for passports. One story (only poorly translated by free online translators) suggests that a privacy group, Privacy First, is taking the government to court over the use of the stored fingerprints for criminal investigatory and not just passport…
Judge tosses ‘mother-in-lawsuit’ vs. comedian
John Rogers reports that the in-laws of a comedienne have lost their lawsuit against for her jokes about them, with the judge finding that many of the jokes they objected to are protected speech: A standup comedian who was sued for making mother-in-law jokes has had the last laugh after a federal judge threw the…
Google Sues for Decision on Links to Copyrighted Songs
Dan Nystedt reports: Google is suing a blues music label to seek a declaration that it has not facilitated the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs by providing links in search results. Google filed the suit against Blues Destiny Records (BDR) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to seek a judgement…