Linda Deutsch of the Associated Press reports: An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison before giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim. Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused…
Category: Court
Pirate Bay legal action dropped in Norway
Mikael Ricknäs reports: Copyright holders have given up legal efforts to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to block filesharing site The Pirate Bay, one of the parties to the case said. The copyright holders, led by Norway’s performing rights society TONO and by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Norway (IFPI Norge) Norway have lost…
EFF to Court: Block Unmasking of Anonymous Online Critic
EFF has gotten involved in a case that has been covered previously on this site. Their press release: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online…
William Prosser and the Privacy Torts
Dan Solove writes: I recently posted on SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article (with Professor Neil M. Richards of Washington University School of Law). The piece is called Prosser’s Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacy, 98 California Law Review __ (forthcoming 2010). It was written as part of a symposium “Prosser’s Privacy at 50.” Read…