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Communications and Internet Law

Overview

Media may be broadly grouped into two categories: print media, which includes newspapers, magazines and books, and telecommunications media, which includes radio, television, wire, satellite, cable, and the Internet. Some media laws—such as the First Amendment, state defamation and invasion of privacy laws, and federal and state open government laws—impact all forms of media. Other media laws, such as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, target only telecommunications.

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  • PA Advisors, LLC v. Google Inc. et al

    Plaintiff PA Advisors, LLC allege that Defendants infringed no U.S. Patent No. 6,199,067 entitled "System and Method for Generating Personalized User Profiles and for Utilizing the Generated User Profiles to Perform Adaptive Internet Searches."
    Texas Eastern District Court
    Patent
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Plaintiff: PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC, PA Advisors, LLC and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and others...
    Last Docket Filed: February 9, 2010
  • The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc.

    Plaintiffs The Author's Guide. Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman sued Google Inc. for reproducing a digital copy of plaintiffs' works without the copyright holders' permission and in violation of the authors' rights under the copyright laws.
    New York Southern District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Plaintiff: The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild, The Author's Guild and others... Defendant: Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc., Google Inc.
    Last Docket Filed: February 5, 2010
  • Aloft Media, LLC v. Oracle Corporation et al

    Texas Eastern District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Plaintiff: Aloft Media, LLC Defendant: Oracle Corporation, Oracle USA, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google, Inc., Fair Isaac Corp. and others...
    Last Docket Filed: February 5, 2010
  • Beneficial Innovations, Inc. v. Careerbuilder, LLC et al

    Texas Eastern District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Plaintiff: Beneficial Innovations, Inc. Defendant: Careerbuilder, LLC, CNET Networks, Inc., The Dallas Morning News, Inc., Digg, Inc., Ebaum's World, Inc. and others...
    Last Docket Filed: February 5, 2010
  • Perfect 10 Inc v. Google Inc et al

    Plaintiff Perfect 10 sued defendant Google Inc. for displaying thumbnails of photographs copyrighted by the plaintiff. Consolidated with Perfect 10 Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc. et al. Additional Resources Ninth Circuit Opinion in Perfect 10 v. Google and Amazon.
    California Central District Court
    Copyright
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Plaintiff: Perfect 10 Inc; Defendant: Google Inc, DoesCounter Claimant: Google Inc, Counter Defendant: Perfect 10 Inc
    Last Docket Filed: February 4, 2010

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  • Rule - Revisions to Rules Authorizing the Operation of Low Power Auxiliary Stations in the ...

    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Revisions to Rules Authorizing the Operation of Low Power Auxiliary Stations in the 698-806 MHz Band:
    Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, Petition for Rulemaking Regarding Low Power Auxiliary Stations, etc.
    ,
    6316-6318 [2010-2779]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 2 [WT Docket No. 08-166, 08-167; ET Docket No. 10-24; FCC 10-16] Revisions to Rules Authorizing the Operation of Low Power Auxiliary Stations in the 698-806 MHz Band; Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, Petition for Rulemaking Regarding Low Power Auxiliary Stations, Including Wireless Microphones, and the Digital Television Transition AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Correcting amendments. SUMMARY: On January 15, 2010, the... [read document]
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  • Proposed Rule - California Public Utilities Commission Petition for Rulemaking

    Federal Communications Commission
    Proposed Rule
    California Public Utilities Commission Petition for Rulemaking
    ,
    6339-6340 [2010-2772]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 4 [ET Docket No. 04-35, RM 11588, DA 10-220] California Public Utilities Commission Petition for Rulemaking AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Petition for rulemaking. SUMMARY: The California Public Utilities Commission (``CPUC'') filed a Petition for Rulemaking requesting that the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC grant State public utilities commissions direct access to the Commission's Network Outage Reporting... [read document]
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  • Rule - Maritime Communications

    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Maritime Communications
    ,
    5241 [2010-2095]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Parts 80 [WT Docket No. 04-257 and RM-10743; FCC 10-6] Maritime Communications AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) furthers its ongoing efforts to ensure that its rules governing the Maritime Radio Services continue to promote maritime safety, maximize effective and efficient use of the spectrum available for maritime communications,... [read document]
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  • Rule - In the Matter of Procedural Amendments to Commission Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules

    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    In the Matter of Procedural Amendments to Commission Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules
    ,
    4701-4703 [2010-1878]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 1 [WT Docket No. 10-18; FCC 10-4] In the Matter of Procedural Amendments to Commission Part 1 Competitive Bidding Rules AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Commission makes two procedural amendments to its competitive bidding rules. The Commission amends the rule specifying how to report potential violations of the prohibition on certain communications in order to reduce the risk that bidding-related... [read document]
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  • Proposed Rule - Review of Emergency Alert System

    Federal Communications Commission
    Proposed Rule
    Review of Emergency Alert System
    ,
    4760-4768 [2010-1941]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 11 [EB Docket No. 04-296; FCC 10-11] Review of the Emergency Alert System AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission adopted a document seeking comment on its proposal to amend the Commission's rules governing the Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules to provide for national EAS testing and collection of data from such tests. The purpose of this testing and data collection... [read document]
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