Lawsuits brought against Facebook Inc, NASDAQ, and different underwriters will all be brought under a judge in NY, who will have to sort throughout the after effects of Facebook's IPO earlier this year. According to Wall Street & Technology, recently a group of federal judges ordered that the [Full Story…]
NY’s #Aereo Streaming Local Broadcasts
September 22, 2012 at 4:02 pm
NY based Aereo is introducing a service that picks up local broadcasts and streams them via the Internet to mobile devices and TV sets. The service will be implemented first in NY and then eventually to the rest of the country. Subscribers can pay fees starting at eight dollars a month to record [Full Story…]
NY Judge Rules Twitter Must Produce #OWS Protesters Posts
September 12, 2012 at 10:08 am
NY State Supreme Court Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. ruled yesterday that Twitter has to turn over post and background information from Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris by Sept. 14. If Twitter does not produce Mr. Harris's posts, than they must provide the court with its earnings [Full Story…]
E-Signature Market Sees Explosive Growth
August 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Getting an official signature on documents sent via the Web is tricky. Tune Core, a Brooklyn-based online music distribution company founded in 2005, faced this exact issue when dealing with legal documents for artists. The company was flooded with documents, and sending, tracking, and storing [Full Story…]
Green Light Given by Judge to Subpoena #OWS Protester’s Tweets
April 25, 2012 at 4:08 pm
An Occupy Wall Street protester has lost his appeal to stop prosecutors from subpoenaing his tweets. Malcolm Harris, who was arrested on Oct. 1 during the mass OWS protest on the Brooklyn Bridge, challenged a recent subpoena of his tweets that, according to Reuters, prosecutors want to use as [Full Story…]
NY Law Enforcement Snags #OWS Protesters via Twitter
March 21, 2012 at 2:06 pm
As a result of a recent subpoena issued to Twitter by NY DAs and prosecutors, several Occupy Wall Street protestors have re-evaluated their decision to fight charges against them. The order allows the user's Twitter account to be used by the court in order to find incriminating evidence against the [Full Story…]
Aereo Launches NY Internet TV Service with Waitlist
March 15, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Despite ongoing lawsuits by area broadcasters, NY internet TV provider Aereo has launched its $12 monthly subscription service. However, the site is currently invitation only with consumers prompted to submit their email address and await a reply. Mike Schroeder, spokesman for Aereo, said to [Full Story…]
Kickstarter Sues ArtistShare CEO Over Alleged Patent Shakedown
October 6, 2011 at 9:21 am
NY startup Kickstarter is suing former musician Brian Camelio (who used to jam with the bands Journey and Phish), the CEO of ArtistShare. The startup claims that Camelio, who filed a patent that resembles their own crowdfunding model, "repeatedly turned up to demand that the website license his [Full Story…]
Prostitution Lawsuit Against Backpage Dismissed
August 18, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Yesterday, Judge Thomas Mummert III, dismissed a lawsuit against Village Voice Media that claimed that the Voices' classified ads site, Backpage.com, aided and abetted sex trafficking by allowing sex ads on the site. The federal judge ruled that websites are not responsible for unlawful material [Full Story…]
Viacom Sues Cablevision Over iPad Streaming Rights
June 24, 2011 at 11:30 am
According to NewTeeVee, one day after Viacom settled its legal battles with Time Warner Cable, the programmer launched a similar lawsuit against Long Island-base cable company Cablevision, alleging that the cable company’s iPad app allows subscribers to stream live video fees right into their [Full Story…]
Thomson Reuters Launches New Site For NY Legal Practitioners
May 17, 2011 at 9:19 am
NY-based Thomson Reuters has been working with their subsidiary Westlaw, an online legal research service for lawyers, in order to roll out a new website called New York Legal, aiming to cover the niche world of NY law. The site will cover key local verdicts, profile attorneys behind [Full Story…]
Bloggers File Class-Action Suit Against Huffington Post, AOL
April 13, 2011 at 11:05 am
A group of Huffington Post bloggers filed a class-action suit against the NY-based website, founder Arianna Huffington and AOL, demanding to be paid for their volunteer writing. The move is led by union organizer and journalist, Jonathan Tasini, who blogged for the Huffington Post since December [Full Story…]
NYTC Talks Internet Privacy Fears
December 6, 2010 at 3:32 pm
At the New York Technology Council's Innovations in Media conference, held late last week in Manhattan, Internet privacy fears and the possibility of federal regulation were high on the agenda. The panelists agreed that marketers and advertisers would face some sort of government regulation [Full Story…]
LimeWire to Close Its Doors on December 31
December 6, 2010 at 9:21 am
Late last Friday, p2p music file sharing company LimeWire announced that after years of protracted legal battles with the music industry, the company will be closing its NYC headquarters and ending the service by the end of the year, officially on December 31. According to Media Decoder, though [Full Story…]
Court Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Poster’s Name
October 21, 2010 at 2:22 pm
A Manhattan court Tuesday ordered Google to provide Carla Franklin, a NY business consultant who has been the subject of anonymous disparaging videos and posts online, with the names and contact information for the person or people who posted them. The videos were posted on Google's YouTube site and [Full Story…]
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