Heather Antoine
Posts by Heather Antoine
Getting Ahead of ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuits
The lack of regulations here has led to the absolute worst-case scenario. People with disabilities have not been served since most companies are unaware this is an …
Did Reddit’s CEO Pierce Section 230 Protections?
Internet attorneys spend our days fighting the good fight – at least that’s what I think I do. In a time where judges confuse metadata and metatags, …
From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield: Making order from chaos on data protection
To replace the now-defunct Safe Harbor agreement, last week the European Commission published the first details of its transatlantic Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is meant to …
eBay removes spin bike listings because ‘spin’ is apparently trademarked
VeRO is ebay’s Verified Rights Owner program. VeRO allows a right’s owner (someone who has a verified trademark, copyright, etc.) to request removal of an …
Google Prevails in “Innocence of Muslims” Copyright Appeal
Judge McKeown rejects Garcia’s copyright claim, explaining, “Innocence of Muslims is an audiovisual work that is categorized as a motion picture and is derivative of the …
Judges Increasingly Allow Discovery of Private Facebook Content
The court ruled that the relevance of her photographs greatly outweighed Nucci’s minimal privacy interest. Nucci argued that she had a legitimate expectation of privacy in …