Internet Companies Urge FCC to Reject Trump Rules on Social Media Liability September 3, 2020 By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose A group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday urged the Federal...
Markel International Exits Personal Accident, Contingency Insurance on COVID-19 Impact June 18, 2020 Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer and division of Markel Corp., has announced its wholesale business will now focus solely...
Big Publishers Sue Digital ‘Emergency Library’ Offering Free Books During Coronavirus June 2, 2020 By Hillel Italie Four of the country’s biggest publishers have sued a digital library for copyright infringement, alleging that the Internet Archive has...
Harvard Professor Takes Aim at ‘Clickbait’ With Defamation Suit Against New York Times January 14, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson A Harvard University professor known as an expert in intellectual property is suing the New York Times for its publication...
Supreme Court Weighs Legal Standard in $20B Racial Bias Claim Against Comcast November 15, 2019 By Andrew Chung U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday expressed sympathy toward allowing comedian and producer Byron Allen to pursue his racial bias...
Bipartisan Group Calls for Pulling Internet Firms’ Liability Immunity October 17, 2019 By Naomi Nix and Rebecca Kern A bipartisan group of lawmakers is stepping up efforts to have U.S. trade officials eliminate a legal liability shield that...
Why Big Internet Firms Think They Should Remain Shielded from Content Liability October 16, 2019 By David Shepardson A 23-year-old law giving technology companies legal protection from lawsuits over user-generated content remains critical to the internet’s future, Alphabet...
EU’s New Copyright Rules Could Hurt Google, Facebook April 15, 2019 By Foo Yun Chee Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed...
Court Rules Dating App Not Liable for Harassing Content March 29, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. federal appeals court refused to hold Grindr liable to a New York man who said his former boyfriend...
Microsoft Exec Says It’s Time to Revisit Big Tech’s Responsibility for Its Content March 25, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith has called for a broad effort by the technology sector to do more to halt...