Communications and Internet Law Overview

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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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  • Almeida v. Google, Inc.
    Plaintiff David Almeida alleges that Defendant Google Inc. failed to disclose that leaving the content ad CPC input blank would subject Plaintiff to charges for content ads on third party websites.
    California Northern District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Plaintiff: David Almeida; Defendant: Google, Inc.
    Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009

    (April 20, 2009)
  • Aloft Media, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. et al
    Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc., Google, Inc. and AOL LLC infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,472,351 entitled "Mobile E-Mail Manager Interface with Integrated Instant Messaging and Phone Call Initiator Feature."
    Texas Eastern District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Plaintiff: Aloft Media, LLC; Defendant: Yahoo! Inc., Google, Inc., AOL LLC
    Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009

    (April 20, 2009)
  • 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 Report Change Found: April 21, 2009

    (April 20, 2009)
  • Aloft Media, LLC v. Google, Inc.
    Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendant Google, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,194,691 entitled "Network Browser Window with Adjacent Identifier Selector Interface for Storing Web Content."
    Texas Eastern District Court
    Plaintiff
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Plaintiff: Aloft Media, LLC; Defendant: Google, Inc.
    Last Docket Report Change Found: April 21, 2009

    (April 20, 2009)
  • 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 Report Change Found: April 21, 2009

    (April 20, 2009)

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  • Rule - Amendment of the Commission's Rules Concerning Commission Organization, Practice and ...
    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Amendment of the Commission's Rules Concerning Commission Organization, Practice and Procedure, Frequency Allocations and Radio Treaty Matters:
    General Rules and Regulations, Tariffs, Miscellaneous Rules Relating to Common Carriers, Radio Broadcast Services, and Stations in Maritime Services
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    3444-3446 [E9-1137]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 1 [DA 08-2125] Amendment of the Commission's Rules, Concerning Commission Organization, Practice and Procedure, Frequency Allocations and Radio Treaty Matters; General Rules and Regulations, Tariffs, Miscellaneous Rules Relating to Common Carriers, Radio Broadcast Services, and Stations in the Maritime Services AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Correcting amendments. SUMMARY: In this document, we correct an inadvertent error by... [read document]
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    (January 20, 2009)
  • Rule - Digital Television Distributed Transmission System Technologies: Announcement of ...
    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Digital Television Distributed Transmission System Technologies:
    Announcement of Effective Date
    ,
    2405-2406 [E9-796]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 73 [MB Docket No. 05-312; FCC 08-256] Digital Television Distributed Transmission System Technologies AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule; announcement of effective date. SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of six months, the information collection(s) associated with section 73.626(f) of the rules, and that this rule will take effect... [read document]
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    (January 14, 2009)
  • Rule - Closed Captioning of Video Programming: Grand Island, NE
    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Closed Captioning of Video Programming:
    Grand Island, NE,
    1593 [E9-508]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 73 [DA 09-04; MB Docket No. 08-213; RM-11500] Television Broadcasting Services; Grand Island, NE AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Commission grants a petition for rulemaking filed by Hill Broadcasting Company, Inc., permittee of station KTVG-DT, to substitute DTV channel 16 for post-transition DTV channel 19 at Grand Island, Nebraska. DATES: This rule is effective February 12, 2009. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION... [read document]
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    (January 12, 2009)
  • Rule - Closed Captioning of Video Programming: Closed Captioning Requirements for Digital ...
    Federal Communications Commission
    Rule
    Closed Captioning of Video Programming:
    Closed Captioning Requirements for Digital Television Receivers,
    1594-1605 [E8-31447]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 79 [CG Docket No. 05-231 and ET Docket No. 99-254; FCC 08-255] Closed Captioning of Video Programming; Closed Captioning Requirements for Digital Television Receivers AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission clarifies several points regarding video programming distributors' obligations to close caption digital programming in light of technological changes inherent in the digital... [read document]
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    (January 12, 2009)
  • Proposed Rule - Closed Captioning of Video Programming
    Federal Communications Commission
    Proposed Rule
    Closed Captioning of Video Programming,
    1654-1661 [E8-31446]
    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 47 CFR Part 79 [CG Docket No. 05-231; FCC 08-255] Closed Captioning of Video Programming AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: In this document, the Commission seeks comment on the application of the closed captioning rules to digital broadcasting, specifically to broadcasters that choose to use their digital allotment to multicast several streams of programming. The Commission's rules exempt video programming channels that... [read document]
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    (January 12, 2009)

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  • Spyware, Divorce and the Law Firm
    This post is about a federal civil case in Louisiana. Becker v. Toca, Civil Action No. 07-7202 (U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana). I'm doing a post on this civil case because it arose from the defendant's allegedly installing a Trojan horse on a law firm's computers. Here are the facts alleged in the plaintiff's complaint, i.e., the pleading that got the case started: Plaintiff, PHILLIP M. BECKER individually operates his law firm in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with the...
    (April 23, 2009)
  • Randy Barnett's "Federalism Amendment":
    Co-blogger Randy Barnett has an important Wall Street journal op ed arguing for the enactment of a "federalism amendment" limiting the powers of the federal government. In an interesting parallel...
    (April 22, 2009)
  • GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law & Economics of Innovation:
    On May 7 here at GMU Law School will be a conference on ""Online Markets vs. Traditional Markets," co-sponsored by Microsoft and GMU Law School. Details are here and further...
    (April 22, 2009)
  • Is The GOP Becoming More Libertarian?
    Public opinion analyst Nate Silver argues that the Republican Party is turning libertarian:...
    (April 22, 2009)
  • In Lackey story, an opportunity lost
    It is almost unheard of that an acquittal receives more media attention than the case that predicated it. But this is the case for Dan Lackey, a developmentally disabled man who was wrongly accused and convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 2003. Lackey spent 3 and a half years in prison before the judge overturned the judgment in the case altogether. The Syracuse Post-Standard covered the Lackey acquittal extensively. In this article, staff reporter Jim O'Hara gives an in-depth,...
    (April 22, 2009)