Posts Tagged ‘Legal’

Feb
11

Google Lawsuit Over Search Rankings

Are you ready for another win for Google? Here we go! This time around, "two real estate agents in Victoria, ...

Jan
31

Google Takes Heat for Potential Age Discrimination

Brian Reid is the source of this law suit that Google is being handed. "Age discrimination" is what Reid ...

Nov
07

YouTube Gets Another YouSuit

According to InfoWorld.com, An Indian music label has filed a suit against Google and its video sharing site YouTube after the ...

Aug
30

Google Getting Sued Again, Among Other Big Boys

A recent report coming from TechDirt, Google is among many of the major players in the Internet world that is ...

Aug
08

Google in the Clear with Postini

Early last month, Google announced the acquisition of Postini, an online e-mail specialty company. As normal procedure happens in ...

Jun
18

Public Policy is Actually Public Policy Now

Google has officially launched a blog specifically all about Google Public Policy. With much scrutiny in the recent past, ...

Mar
23

Google: 1 Kinderstart: 0

As Kinderstart.com sued Google in July of 2006, they were fighting because Google set their PageRank to a zero which ...

Mar
13

Let’s Get Ready to Rumble! Viacom vs. Google

The next step in the copyright infringement wars has begun. Google (YouTube.com) is being sued by Viacom for "massive ...

Mar
07

Google Beats Skyline Software in Patent Wars

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an ...

Mar
01

The Oscars Do Not Like Google

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has forced Google-owned YouTube to remove video clips of last weekend's Oscar ...

Feb
28

Google in Hot Water with Korea for Fair Trade Pact

Google has been hit with an alleged violation of the Korea Fair Trade Pact ("KFTC"). The unnamed web company ...

Feb
28

Google to Fight for Gmail.cn

A legal source told Reuters that Google was trying to buy the Internet domain name, held by Beijing-based ISM Technologies. It ...

Feb
28

Search Engines Rights to the First Ammendment

Search engine decisions to reject ads is protected by 47 USC 230(c)(2) as a legitimate decision to filter "otherwise objectionable" ...

Jan
31

Google Loses Gmail Name in Europe

Google's Gmail trademark just suffered a severe blow in Europe as the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market has ...

Jan
04

Google, Apple, and Napster being Sued over Patents

The NY Times is reporting that Google, Apple, and Napster are all being sued over patent issues. Who's behind ...

Dec
06

Google Walks Away From the Fraud Case

Straight from BusinessWeek, there was a case about a click fraud software developer that blantantly walked into the Google office ...

Nov
25

Google comes to terms with Belgians

The agreement was made with the Belgian copyright groups Sofam, representing about 3,700 photographers, and Scam, on behalf of journalists. ...

Nov
25

Flach Film vs. Google

Flach Film is suiing Google over the video they have produced: The World According to Bush. PARIS - The producer of ...

Nov
12

Google Domain Trademarking

Cristian wrote a good article about this so I'll dig a bit more into it. Google is a very exclusive domain ...

Nov
09

Google video being sued this time

Google Video is the target of legal action this time. SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s on-line video service has been sued ...

Nov
07

Google Speaks Up Against Australia’s Senate

The warning came in a submission to Australia's senate on legislation Google said could open the way for copyright owners ...

Nov
06

Google Wins YouTube.com Ownership

The Chicago Tribune writes on the antitrust approval for Google over YouTube.com. The antitrust authorities were investigating the recent ...

Nov
03

AdSense.com Now Owned by Google

AdSense.com has been owned by an advertising consulting agency for quite some time. The company, AdSense, owned the domain ...

Nov
03

UTube.com Sues YouTube.com

UTube.com is suing YouTube.com for a couple of different reasons. First, all the traffic they have been getting and ...

Oct
30

French Publishers Join the Lawsuit

As we've been watching and reading, Google is still being sued over copyright infringements overseas. La Martinière filed suit against Google ...

Oct
27

The Fight Continues

Google's legal problems are far from being over. They are still battling it out in the courts with the ...

Oct
25

Amazon Just Says No

BsuinessWeek reports: Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it ...

Oct
13

Google’s YouTube Faces New Law Suit

Shortly after Google's recent acquisition of YouTube.com, Time Warner sent a friendly letter over to Google. Dick Parsons, the chairman and ...

Oct
07

Google Fights Back Publishers

Google's legal team has been busy and they are starting to fight back with subpoenas. Google's alone on this ...