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Yelp Accused of Extortion
Yelp, the online review site, is being accused of extortion in a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week. The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppress or delete reviews that disparaged the hospital. Yelp , a popular San Francisco-based site, is one of the leading sites for consumers to post reviews and comments about their local businesses and services and touts its integrity of “Real people.
Continue reading »Government Settles for $3 Million in Spying Coffee Table Suit
The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table. Rather than comply with a court order to provide lawyers in the case with what the U.S.
Continue reading »Looking for the “right balance” of copyright
“For many years,” writes Mike Masnick in TechDirt , “I’ve pointed out that I tend to disagree with many folks — who I otherwise agree with — in copyright debates, who argue that we should be looking for the ‘right balance’ of copyright holder rights vs. user rights.” He goes on »»» I’ve long thought that balance is the wrong way to look at it. The purpose of copyright law is to incentivize the creation of new content, and thus the standard on which copyright law should be judged is one where the creation of content is maximized.
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