Next on CLBR: Silicon Beach and Lawyers Behaving Badly

Featuring Popehat’s Ken White and DigitalLA’s Kevin Winston. NEWS Federal Court Opens ADA Floodgates to Streaming Video Content A Massachusetts federal judge has held that streaming video is subject to Americans with Disabilities Act in rejecting Neftlix motion to dismiss claim by National Association of Deaf that failing to close caption streaming video violates the…

Bloggers’ Gruesome Execution in Emerging Failed State: Mexico

Excerpt from  Tortured, disemboweled and hung from a bridge for tweeting Couple killed by Mexican drug cartel as gruesome warning to bloggers who ‘snitch’ online A couple have been found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo after being disembowelled and mutilated by attackers. The motive for the gruesome attack…

Blog Street Journal: Righthaven Loses, GoDaddy Wins

Righthaven Loses First Case, Named in Counterclaim Righthaven, which has now filed 157 copyright infringement actions on behalf of its newspaper sponsors, suffered its first defeat as a federal district judge took the unprecedented step of dismissing the claim on the basis of fair use.  In addition, the Electronic Frontier Foundation have come to the…

STEVENS MEDIA WAR ON BLOGGERS

STEVENS MEDIA WAR ON BLOGGERS As we reported previously, Stevens Media, has been on a lawsuit binge filing at least 50 copyright actions against bloggers and websites using their content.  Stevens Media, which owns newspapers in 9 states including its flagship the Las Vegas Review , has assigned copyrights to some of its articles to a…