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Fashion Faux Pas: Louis Vuitton Clashes With UPenn
So, have you heard about the little legal scuffle between Louis Vuitton and the UPenn Law School? The Penn Intellectual Property Group (PIPG),...

A U.S. First: Juror Gets Jail in Fallout Over His 'Friending' of Defendant
At a recent presentation during which I reviewed a number of cases and court rule changes regarding juror use of social media and the...

Can AP's Copyright Claims Hold (Melt)water?
By now you might have heard about the lawsuit that the Associated Press filed against on-demand software company Meltwater News. AP...

Intentional Grounding II: Can Public Colleges Monitor Athletes' Tweets?
On Feb. 3, The New York Times' college sports blog "The Quad" reported about the flip side of my...

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New Threat Entries

Ratingz, Inc. v. Adrian Philip Thomas, P.A.
On February 22, 2012, Ratingz, Inc., operator of LawyerRatingz.com, a user-review site for reviewing attorneys, filed a declaratory judgment action in federal court in California. According to Ratingz's complaint and the...

Liberty Media Holdings v. John Does
Liberty Media Holdings, an adult film company, filed suit on May 6, 2011, against approximately 50 Massachusetts residents for copyright infringement of material allegedly shared over a BitTorrent file transfer...

Associated Press v. Meltwater News
On February 14, 2012, the Associated Press (AP) filed a lawsuit in federal court against Meltwater News, Inc. AP alleges multiple counts of copyright infringment, as well as hot news...

PhoneDog, LLC v. Kravitz
PhoneDog, LLC, an "interactive mobile news and reviews resource," filed suit against former employee Noah Kravitz on July 15, 2011, for ownership of a Twitter account Kravitz used while he...

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