Section 230 of Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. 230) shields Yahoo’s spam filtering efforts Holomaxx v. Yahoo, 2011 WL 865794 (N.D.Cal. March 11, 2011) Plaintiff provides email marketing services for its clients. It sends out millions of emails a day, many of those to recipients having Yahoo email addresses. Yahoo used its spam filtering technology [...]
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Stored Communications Act protects Yahoo email account from subpoena
October 20th, 2010
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Chasten v. Franklin, 2010 WL 4065606 (N.D.Cal. October 14, 2010) Plaintiff sued some corrections officers at the prison where her inmate son was killed. She learned in a deposition that one of the defendants had a Yahoo email account. So she sent a subpoena to Yahoo seeking all the email messages sent from that account [...]
Downloading a song is not a performance under the Copyright Act
September 29th, 2010
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“Performance” under Copyright Act requires “contemporaneous perceptibility”. U.S. v. ASCAP, — F.3d —, No. 09-539 (2d Cir. September 28, 2010). Yahoo and RealNetworks commenced a proceeding to determine the rate of a “blanket license” they would pay to ASCAP to perform musical works over the internet (e.g., through streaming services). (As an aside, such actions [...]
Has Section 230 immunity passed its apex?
May 8th, 2009
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Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc., No. 05-36189, 9th Cir. May 7, 2009 Yesterday’s decision from the Ninth Circuit in Barnes v. Yahoo is kind of a big deal. Jeff Neuberger observes that Section 230 took a hit. Characterizing it differently, Thomas O’Toole called it a nice win for online publishers. I’m thinking that the halcyon days [...]
Purported John Kerry ex-flame’s suit against Yahoo tossed
November 13th, 2007
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I’m going back in time a little bit to pick up on an unreported September 5, 2007 decision by a New York state trial court in the case of Whitnum v. Yahoo! [2007 WL 2609825]. Plaintiff Whitnum is the author of the book Hedge Fund Mistress, and also the owner of the website of the [...]
