The defense team in a high-profile illegal music downloading case against physics graduate student Joel Tenenbaum had hoped to rely on a fair-use doctrine defense. But after that plan was…
Despite a defense lawyer’s argument that extremist blogger Hal Turner isn’t a danger to others and even once alerted authorities to a potential assassination plot against President Barack Obama, a…
An apartment management company in Illinois has sued a tenant for libel over a “malicious and defamatory” tweet about the state of her apartment to her 20 followers on Twitter.
After a change in dean, Harvard Law School is reportedly making it difficult for a student to continue working on a high-profile file-sharing case that she says she has “lived…
Apple Inc. has withdrawn a legal threat concerning a BluWiki website that discusses how users might use non-Apple media software with an iPod or iPhone, rather than iTunes.
Sen. John McCain has apologized for his campaign’s unauthorized use of Jackson Browne’s signature 1977 hit Running on Empty in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the singer-songwriter.
Actor Warren Beatty has lost his bid to avoid having to give a deposition on videotape in a dispute over television and film rights to the Dick Tracy comic strip…
In what some consider an Orwellian remedy, Amazon eliminated from users’ Kindles last week electronic copies of the classic George Orwell books Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four after determining that…
A computer hacker accessed internal documents at Twitter and made them public, igniting debate about the legal and ethical obligations of those who published confidential material about the microblogging website’s…
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is abandoning his suit against Twitter, filed in May because the microblogging site failed to take down an impostor’s…
A judge in New Jersey superior court ruled last week that Shellee Hale of Washington state is not protected by New Jersey shield laws for her posts on an online…
A pending settlement between Google Inc. and groups representing authors and publishers could violate antitrust law, the U.S. Department of Justice says in a letter to the federal judge in…
Defense counsel for an attorney and former New Jersey lawmaker accused in a child pornography case must be given access to the images allegedly found on Neil Cohen’s computers, a…
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