June 2009 Archives - New Media and Technology Law Blog

Heads Up for a Ruling on the ‘”Remote DVR” Petition for Certiorari

By Jeff Neuburger on June 24th, 2009 Posted in Copyright

UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari on June 29, 2009. *** The petition we are talking about here is the petition for certiorari filed in the US. Supreme Court in the case more formally known as The Cartoon Network LP, LLP v. CSC Holdings, Inc. (2d Cir. 2008), petition for cert…. Continue Reading

Ninth Circuit Executes Dictionary Attack on Telephone Consumer Protection Act

By Jeff Neuburger on June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Electronic Direct Marketing

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion today in Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster, Inc., a case involving the applicability of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to text messages sent to cellular phones. The appeals court reinstated a TCPA claim against Simon & Schuster and remanded the case for resolution of disputed fact… Continue Reading

Zombie Images and the Right of Publicity

By Jeff Neuburger on June 4th, 2009 Posted in Online Content

Deleting information in the digital world can be a problematic issue. A Web site that appears to a viewer to present unitary pages of text and images actually consists of text and graphic elements that can be drawn from a variety of sources. For a variety of technical reasons, it is not unusual for text… Continue Reading