Sophie Hardach reports: A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and…
Category: Court
Driver’s Ed Photos of Dead Youth Didn’t Violate Family’s Privacy
Jeff Gorman reports: A woman can’t collect damages from a paramedic who displayed photos of her son’s dead body in a driver’s education class, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled. Jeremy Wooten died in a car accident at the age of 21. Paramedic Don Horton kept the photos, which are typically taken at the scene…
Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims
Ryan Singel reports: An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system. The suit known as Doe v. Netflix…
Facebook sues social network spammers
John Leyden reports: Facebook has launched lawsuits against a trio of alleged high profile hijackers and spammers. A lawsuit filed in an unspecified federal court charges Jeremi Fisher, Philip Porembski, and Ryan Shimeall of “phishing Facebook users and sending spam from their accounts”, the social networking website said in a statement. Also named as defendants…