French Court Orders eBay to Pay $61 Million to LVMH- June 30, 2008 A French court ordered the online auction giant eBay to pay 38.6 million euros, or $61 million, in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, in the latest round in a long-running legal battle over the sale of counterfeit goods on the Internet. LVMH, a maker of high-end leather goods, perfumes and other fashion and luxury products, successfully challenged eBay for a second time in the French court, arguing that 90 percent of the Louis Vuitton bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are...http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/french-court-orders-ebay-to-pay-61.html Turkish Group Says It Hijacked ICANN Domain Names- June 30, 2008 The domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked. A Turkish hacking group known as NetDevilz claimed responsibility. There is no word on how the hijack was accomplished.Read the article: CNET News.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/turkish-group-says-it-hijacked-icann.html "Mini-Me" Actor Gets Sex Tape Taken Offline- June 30, 2008 Actor Verne Troyer, best known for his portrayal of Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" films, successfully shut down, for now, the distribution of a sex tape featuring him and a former girlfriend. The celebrity Web site TMZ posted a 25-second snippet of the video but pulled the clips after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by Troyer's attorneys.Read the article: Seattle Timeshttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/mini-me-actor-gets-sex-tape-taken.html Competitor Sued for Placing Ads on Google, Yahoo- June 30, 2008 In a case that spotlights the growing importance of search engines to commerce, NameSafe has sued a competitor, LifeLock, for trademark infringement involving ads placed next to search results. NameSafe, which like LifeLock sells services designed to protect customers against identity theft, alleged its rival used NameSafe's name in deceptive search ads on Google, Yahoo, and other search engines.Read the article: CNET News.comhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/competitor-sued-for-placing-ads-on.html Court Fines Software Company for Ticketmaster Usage- June 30, 2008 A federal court has slapped RMG Technologies with an $18 million fine to be paid to Barry Diller's Ticketmaster and permanently banned the software company from using its products to procure tickets. The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California had issued a temporary ban in October 2007.Read the article: Forbeshttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/court-fines-software-company-for.html Wards Website Hacked But Customers Not Notified- June 30, 2008 An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge -- a hack of its customers' credit card numbers -- but didn't inform the consumers, revealing how data breaches might be heavily undercounted even with new notification laws. At least 51,000 records were exposed in the breach at the parent company of Montgomery Ward.Read the article: USA Todayhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/wards-website-hacked-but-customers-not.html ICANN Approves New Rules for Top-Level Domains- June 26, 2008 The Internets main oversight agency approved the most sweeping changes to the networks address system since its creation. According to new rules unanimously passed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, at its meeting in Paris, any company, organization or country will soon be able to apply for a new Web address extension, called a top-level domain.Read the article: The New York Timeshttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/icann-approves-new-rules-for-top-level.html Facebook Agrees to Settlement Payment Over Founding- June 26, 2008 Facebook agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of cash and stock to settle a long-running legal battle over whether founder Mark Zuckerberg stole ideas for the site from fellow Harvard students, according to court documents. The parties in the case -- which pitted Zuckerberg, a shy 24-year-old entrepreneur now worth billions of dollars, against former Harvard classmates and one-time U.S. Olympic team rowing hopefuls Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- agreed to a tentative settlement deal in...http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/facebook-agrees-to-settlement-payment.html Lawmakers Fail to Define Illegal Internet Gambling- June 26, 2008 Lawmakers failed to agree on setting a clear definition of illegal Internet gambling to go along with a 2006 ban on online betting. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have been unable to finalize rules to implement the ban because Congress didn't clearly define online gambling when it passed legislation less than two years ago.Read the article: San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/lawmakers-fail-to-define-illegal.html Anti-Spam Group Pushes Best Practices for ISPs- June 26, 2008 A major antispam organization is pushing a set of new best practices for ISPs to stop increasing volumes of spam from botnets. The guidelines, from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, were drawn up at a meeting in Germany and deal with forwarded e-mail and e-mail that is sent from dynamic IP addresses.Read the article: InfoWorldhttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/anti-spam-group-pushes-best-practices.html |