US Supreme Court Declines to Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield
For the past several years a number of parties have been trying to use the courts to invent loopholes in Section 230 of the CDA. This...Continue reading
Category: Lawsuit
Author Drops eBook Royalty Suit Against S&S Over Book It Doesn’t Publish
The most bizarre publishing lawsuit of the year has just gone on hiatus. Earlier this year author Sheldon Blau filed a lawsuit against Simon & Schuster over the...Continue reading
Paramount Says Star Trek Axanar Copyright Lawsuit Is Not Over
Around this time last month news stories circulated with the claim that the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Paramount against the fan film Axanar was about to...Continue reading
Author Sues Simon & Schuster Over eBook Royalties on a Book It Doesn’t Publish
There's a story going around this weekend about a new class action lawsuit filed against Simon & Schuster. Doctor and author Sheldon Blau is alleging that S&S...Continue reading
Reports of the Death of the Star Trek Axanar Lawsuit Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
There's a story going around this weekend to the effect that the lawsuit Paramount filed against the indie Star Trek fan film Axanar "is going away". While...Continue reading
Ellora’s Cave Now Threatening RWA With Bogus Defamation Lawsuit
The romance publisher Ellora's Cave has moved on from trying to silence book bloggers with a SLAPP lawsuit; now it is reportedly making threats against the Romance...Continue reading
Amazon Files Suit Against Sellers of Fake Reviews
Amazon filed its third round of lawsuits against purveyors of fake product reviews last week. Geekwire and the Seattle Times report that the retailer is suing...Continue reading
Fair Use Triumphs as US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Google Book-Scanning Project
The decade-old lawsuit over Google's effort to scan library books and display snippets in search results came to an end this week. The US Supreme Court...Continue reading
Amazon Defeats Publicity Rights Lawsuit Over Erotica Cover
In April of last year Amazon, Smashwords, and B&N were caught up in a publicity rights lawsuit in Ohio. The lawsuit was filed by a couple...Continue reading
Textbook Publishers Win Default Judgement Against Alleged Textbook Pirate
The copyright and trademark infringement case filed last year by Pearson, Cengage, and McGraw-Hill came to an abrupt end last month in a default judgement. The Sante...Continue reading
Scribd Settles NFB Lawsuit Over Inaccessible eBook Service
Scribd's headline news today is the new content they're adding to their catalog, but that's just press release fluff. The important story happened several weeks ago, and...Continue reading
Axel Springer Sues Ad-Block Developer
German news publisher Axel Springer has always taken a hard line on advertising. It has sued ad block developers, barred ad block users from Bild.de, was...Continue reading
Louisiana Booksellers, ABA Challenge Louisiana Indecency Law
From the "we haven't learned anything from history"dep't comes the tale of a new nanny-state law in Louisiana. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit...Continue reading
Does Amazon’s Arbitration Clause Bar its Own Suit Against 1114 Anonymous Reviewers?
Late last week Amazon filed a lawsuit against a thousand plus members of the Fiverr marketplace who were selling fake Amazon reviews. The theory behind the...Continue reading
The Ellora’s Cave/Dear Author Lawsuit Has Been Settled
The defamation lawsuit that romance publisher Ellora's Cave filed against the Dear Author book blog has come to a quiet end on Thursday. Deirdre Saoirse Moen reports that...Continue reading