In a post to its “Policy by the Numbers” blog on December 11, 2012, Google Legal Director Fred Von Lohmann announced the company was providing information about how often it removes search results that link to material that allegedly infringes on copyrights. Whereas the internet search giant received 250,000 copyright removal requests per week when
Los Angeles business litigation lawyer Robert Klein and all of the Los Angeles business litigation attorneys at Klein Trial Lawyers would like to wish our readers and their families a happy and safe holiday today.
On December 6, 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a press release announcing that she had filed a lawsuit against Delta Airlines, Inc. for failing to include a privacy policy within the company’s “Fly Delta” mobile application. The release said it was the first legal action under California’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a set of conferences from the non-profit Sapling Foundation that was formed to disseminate “idea worth spreading.” Past speakers have included former president Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and numerous Nobel Prize winners. In June 2006, the presentations became offered for free viewing online, and last month, the TED Talks
In 1983, Hasbro began producing “My Little Pony” plastic toys that were primarily marketed to young girls. The original toy line ran for a dozen years, but as a video from the PBS biweekly Idea Channel web series notes, the 2010 fourth generation incarnation of the ponies led to a television program that appealed to
A Wall Street Journal video discusses Marissa Mayer, the businesswoman who was Google’s first female engineer and held key roles with the multinational corporation before being appointed president and CEO of Yahoo in July 2012. The move made the 37-year-old Mayer the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company, but she is now facing what
The Virginian-Pilot reported that 36-year-old Dennis Newsome was sentenced on December 3, 2012, to 11 months in prison and nine months on house arrest for copyright infringement. According to a news release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Beacon, New York man “also forfeited assorted computers, hard drives, and other
Bloomberg News reported that a former GM engineer and her husband were convicted of stealing trade secrets on hybrid-car technology from the automaker to help develop similar vehicles in China. According to Bloomberg, ex-employee Shanshan Du allegedly copied GM’s private information on the motor control of hybrids and provided documents to her husband, Yu Qin. Qin allegedly
E.L. James’ erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey became a worldwide phenomenon when it was published in 2011, inspiring many satirical readings, setting various paperback sales records and even coining a new term: “mommy porn.” However, after Los Angeles-based Smash Pictures, an adult film production company, produced an actual pornographic movie entitled “Fifty Shades of Grey: a
The Associated Press reported on November 27, 2012, that a Grammy-winning band has settled copyright infringement lawsuits against Pizza Hut and The Home Depot. The Black Keys alleged misuse of its songs “Lonely Boy” in a Home Depot commercial for power tools and “Gold on the Ceiling” in a Pizza Hut advertisement. The terms of the settlements
