Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee, Inc. v. Does, 12-00240 (N.D. Cal. January 25, 2012) (Hat tip to Venkat for posting a link to this decision.) Ron Paul’s campaign — Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee, Inc. — sued some John Doe defendants in federal court over an offensive video attacking former (but then current) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Ron Paul not allowed to find out who posted mean video about Jon Huntsman on YouTube
January 26th, 2012
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How Twitter’s grant to the Library of Congress could be copyright-okay
April 15th, 2010
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Twitter is giving a copy of the archive of all tweets from the beginning of time to the Library of Congress. The inevitable outrage has ensued. One big concern is privacy. You gotta admit it’s creepy (and evokes Big Brother) to know that all your tweets will belong to the feds. The other outrage-catalyst is [...]
Do Twitter’s new terms of service forsake third party developers?
September 11th, 2009
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Twitter announced its new Terms of Service yesterday. One big issue deals with copyright ownership. This is one of the perennial questions in the law of social media: “who owns the user-created content?” Twitter nods to this issue when it states that “Twitter is allowed to ‘use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display [...]
Was on CNN.com talking about Twitter
July 30th, 2009
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Great time today being on CNN.com Live talking about the recent lawsuit filed against a Twitter user for talking about mold in her apartment and an apparently uncaring management company. Video embedded below. (Or click through if it’s not showing up in the RSS feed). Embedded video from CNN Video
Is Twitter a big fat copyright infringing turkey?
November 26th, 2008
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Here’s a topic you can mull over if conversation gets slow during tomorrow’s Thanksgiving dinner: Does Twitter infringe your copyright every time you post to it (i.e., put up a “tweet”)? Consider this: One of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner (under 17 U.S.C. 106) is the right to display the work. A website [...]
Blackberry and Twitter in a trademark tussle?
April 2nd, 2008
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In April 2007, Twitter, Inc. filed application no. 77166246 to register the trademark TWITTER with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Twitter is the ever-more-popular tool that enables “friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” It’s fun. You [...]
