NEW & NOTEWORTHY

• Supreme Court Upholds Part of Anti-Child Porn Law
* Read the New Opinion
• 8 Ex-AOL Time Warner Executives Charged
• FTC Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles Unplugged
• Microsoft: New Talks For Alternative Yahoo Deal
* Yahoo's General Counsel
• Napster Rolls Out All-MP3 Download Store
* Special Coverage: Napster Litigation

WORLD BEAT

• France's Orange Signs New iPhone Deal With Apple
* Talk About iPhones With Other Attorneys
• 38 Charged in International Phishing Scheme
* Privacy and Security Law Resources

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

• Senate Votes To Roll Back Media Ownership Rule
• Nintendo Hit With $21 Million Patent Infringement Judgment
• Google Makes Health Service Publicly Available

RECENT CASE SUMMARIES

• Doe v. MySpace, Inc.
• Mangosoft, Inc. v. Oracle, Corp.

NEW & NOTEWORTHY:

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PART OF ANTI-CHILD PORN LAW
(Associated Press) - The Supreme Court upheld criminal penalties Monday for promoting child pornography. The court, in a 7-2 decision, brushed aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or innocent e-mails that describe pictures of grandchildren. Read more...

Related Resources
• Read the New Opinion (U.S. v. Williams)

8 EX-AOL TIME WARNER EXECUTIVES CHARGED
(Associated Press) - Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising revenues by more than $1 billion between 2000 and 2002. Read more...

Related Resources
• Read the Complaints: S.E.C. v. Kelly
• S.E.C. v. Colburn
• Behavioral Advertising - How To Get It Right?

FTC ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING PRIVACY PRINCIPLES UNPLUGGED
(FindLaw Tech Columnist Eric Sinrod) - Behavioral advertising seeks to target relevant content for individual Internet consumers, but to do so, it relies upon information specific to those individuals. As a result, there has been some concern about the proper handling of private information relating to Internet consumers. Read more...

MICROSOFT: NEW TALKS FOR ALTERNATIVE YAHOO DEAL
(Associated Press) - Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven't escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo. Read more...

Related Resources
• Yahoo's General Counsel

NAPSTER ROLLS OUT ALL-MP3 DOWNLOAD STORE
(Associated Press) - Napster Inc. begins selling MP3s Tuesday, a move the online music service hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster's sliding fortunes. Read more...

Related Resources
• Special Coverage: Napster Litigation

WORLD BEAT:

FRANCE'S ORANGE SIGNS NEW IPHONE DEAL WITH APPLE
(Associated Press) - French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries. Read more...

Related Resources
• Talk About iPhones With Other Attorneys

38 CHARGED IN INTERNATIONAL PHISHING SCHEME
(Associated Press) - Federal authorities have charged 38 people with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users. Read more...

Related Resources
• Privacy and Security Law Resources

OPEN FOR BUSINESS:

SENATE VOTES TO ROLL BACK MEDIA OWNERSHIP RULE
(Associated Press) - The Senate Thursday night voted to nullify a Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. Read more...

NINTENDO HIT WITH $21 MILLION PATENT INFRINGEMENT JUDGMENT
(Associated Press) - Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a small East Texas gaming company $21 million Wednesday for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems. Read more...

GOOGLE MAKES HEALTH SERVICE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
(Associated Press) - Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information. Read more...

RECENT CASE SUMMARIES:

DOE V. MYSPACE, INC.
(U.S. 5th Cir., May 16, 2008) - Dismissal of a claim for negligence and gross negligence and findings that the claims are barred by the Communications in Decency Act (CDA) is affirmed where the CDA bars claims against web based interactive computer services based on their publication of third party content. Read more...

MANGOSOFT, INC. V. ORACLE, CORP.
(U.S. Fed. Cir., May 14, 2008) - In a patent infringement action relating to computer networking systems and methods that provide shared memory systems and services, summary judgment for defendant-Oracle is affirmed where the district court correctly construed the disputed claim term "local" to mean a "computer device that is directly attached to a single computer's processor." Read more...