Internet Law and Business Blog

In a recent case, Craigslist was found to be not liable for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act because listings that were discriminatory for housing (gender, race, etc.) were posted by others, which meant that Craigslist was not the “author” of the listings.
But what about liability for ads that encourage others to engage in [...]

There’s an organization called the U.S. Copyright Registry (USCR) that is sending out unsolicited commercial e-mails (spam) that looks like the messages come from the U.S. federal government. The e-mails contain repeated references to copyright law and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (which handles patents and trademarks but not copyrights).
It appears that USCR has [...]

Several of my domains were registered through SpeedyDomainRegistration.com, a reseller. As two were about to expire, I renewed them and paid through PayPal. I subsequently received notice from DotRegistrar.com that the domains were being canceled because of nonpayment.
When I provided the PayPal receipt to DotRegistrar, they explained that Speedy had been doing this for months, [...]