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MediaPost Communications
April 13, 2018
Time, Gannett and other news organizations are asking a federal appellate court to decide whether embedding a tweet in a news article can infringe copyright. The publishers are seeking to immediately appeal an order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest in New York, who ruled that theyÃâà...
MediaPost Communications
April 13, 2018
The publishers are seeking to immediately appeal an order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest in New York, who ruled that they may have infringed photographer Justin Goldman's copyright by embedding a tweet that contained his photo of NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Forrest's orderÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
April 12, 2018
That claim relied on state law, however, and the U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest opted to decline supplemental jurisdiction. Shen says in his refiling in Manhattan Supreme Court that the Post and Shapiro should pay him $8 million in damages, claiming that Shapiro “goaded [him] into a confrontation”Ãâà...
The Epoch Times
April 3, 2018
He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan, who also ordered him to forfeit $119,429 of proceeds from suspicious trading. Yan's guilty plea stemmed from his 2016 purchase of stock options in Stillwater Mining Co. just three weeks before South Africa's Sibanye Gold announcedÃâà...
Law360
April 3, 2018
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan handed down the sentence to Darcy Wedd, who was chief operating officer and then CEO of a company called Mobile Messenger, for an alleged $100 million scheme to charge cellphone users $9.99 a month without their consent for “premium” text contentÃâà...
Law360
April 2, 2018
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan handed down the sentence to Darcy Wedd, who was chief operating officer and then CEO of a company called Mobile Messenger, for an alleged $100 million scheme to charge cellphone users $9.99 a month without their consent for “premium” text contentÃâà...
Digital Music News
April 2, 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest has now ordered Adam Klein, the owner of the defunct CMJ trade journal and CMJ music festival, to pay $555,000 in unpaid wages. Four ex-employees collectively sued for the compensation in 2016. Former general manager David Dekeyser and former socialÃâà...
Pitchfork
March 31, 2018
The ex-employees filed a collective action lawsuit against CMJ Holdings, Klein, and his company Abaculi Media under the claim that they were not paid since October 2015. Now, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest has ruled that Abaculi Media must collectively pay those employees over $500,000Ãâà...
RollingStone.com
March 31, 2018
Adam Klein, owner of now-defunct music events and media company CMJ, must pay a group of former employees over $500,000. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, who filed a collective action lawsuit against Klein, CMJ Holdings and Abaculi Media in 2016,Ãâà...
Brooklyn Vegan (blog)
March 30, 2018
Adam Klein, the owner of the now defunct CMJ trade journal and CMJ music festival, has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to the ex-employees who collectively sued him in 2016 for unpaid wages, by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest. Klein's lawyer, Alex Granovsky, toldÃâà...
Minnesota Lawyer
March 22, 2018
Judge Katherine Forrest rejected the 9th Circuit's “server test” based, in part, on a surprising approach to the process of embedding. The opinion describes the simple process of embedding a tweet or image in a way that puts publishers, not servers, in the drivers' seat: “[W]hen defendants caused theÃâà...
MediaPost Communications
March 21, 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest in New York said in an order issued Monday that the legal question presented by the dispute could have a far-reaching affect. She added that she was granting the news organizations' request to allow a fast appeal "in order to bring resolution to an important andÃâà...
MediaPost Communications
March 6, 2018
"The court's decision here has dramatic, far-reaching practical implications for all online publishers, social media and content platforms, and Internet users," the news organizations write in papers filed Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest in New York. They are asking her to authorize anÃâà...
Law.com
March 2, 2018
Judge Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York disagreed: “Bitcoins carry value—that is their purpose and function—and act as a medium of exchange. Bitcoins may be exchanged for legal tender, be it U.S. dollars, Euros, or some other currency.” Id. at 548. The court found that Bitcoin fit withinÃâà...
ABA Journal
February 20, 2018
15, decision, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest of Manhattan refused to toss photographer Justin Goldman's infringement suit, report the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter calls the decision “a huge surprise.” The publication says the opinion couldÃâà...
Ars Technica
February 17, 2018
On February 5 in a brief, handwritten note, US District Judge Katherine Forrest blocked efforts by Ulbricht's new lawyer, Paul Grant, to go beyond the standard 36-month period allowed in what is called a "Rule 33 motion." (Grant took over the case from Ulbricht's previous counsel, Joshua Dratel, in JuneÃâà...
Above the Law
February 16, 2018
Judge Katherine B. Forrest has put up with a lot of ridiculous and horrible bulls**t in her tenure on the bench. So let's establish off the bat that she doesn't deserve most of the guff she takes. But her decision yesterday in Goldman v. Breitbart, et More Respectable Outlets, is just awful. And it's not even that it'sÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
February 15, 2018
In a huge surprise, a New York federal judge on Thursday delivered a blow to nine news organizations defending their use of a Tom Brady photo. ... and 'embed' invoked thoughts of a bird, a disease, and a reporter," begins a summary judgment opinion from U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest.
EFF
February 15, 2018
Judge Katherine Forrest rejected the Ninth Circuit's server test, based in part on a surprising approach to the process of embedding. The opinion describes the simple process of embedding a tweet or image—something done every day by millions of ordinary Internet users—as if it were a highly technicalÃâà...
Wesleyan Argus
February 5, 2018
On Thursday, Feb. 1, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Katherine Forrest '86 headlined the first installment of this semester's Public Affairs (PAC) Speaker Series. Judge Forrest delivered a talk entitled “Freedom of Expression: A View From the Bench.” Judge Forrest earned herÃâà...
Law.com
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit again revived an attempted class action suit that U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest of the Southern ... On Monday, the panel of Second Circuit Judges Rosemary Pooler, Reena Raggi and Christopher Droney, armed with two recent decisions, vacated andÃâà...
Above the Law
December 31, 1999
3. You Still Have a TON of Other Defenses. Judge Forrest was very clear on this point: despite the finding of infringement, there are “a number of as yet unresolved strong defenses to liability” that are available. For one, fair use is a very viable defense available to news publications embedding such tweets.
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