Napa Valley has long been one of the premier viticultural regions in California—if not the United States. The Napa Valley Register reported that one grape grower near the Napa town of Calistoga is filed a lawsuit against a winery last month for an alleged breach of contract. Frederic Constant, owner of Diamond Mountain Vineyard claims that
Earlier this month, we discussed the “Six Strikes” Copyright Alert System (CAS) being used by the five major internet service providers (ISPs) to combat copyright infringement. On March 1, the technology blog Techdirt reported that MarkMonitor, the American brand protection company entrusted by the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) to identify instances of infringement under the “Six
A May 2012 advertisement from satellite service provider Dish Network touts the company’s sports offerings, but Dish threw the flag on the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” when it accused cable television sports programming giant ESPN of breach of contract. On February 28, a federal jury awarded Dish $4.86 million in one of its four breach of
In a video from the technology news website SiliconANGLE, contributing editor John Casaretto discusses whether “rogue” mobile apps are really a danger to the film industry. The segment addresses the takedown notice that Warner Bros. recently sent Google demanding that the company remove the “Hobbit 3D Wallpaper HD” app from its store. As SiliconANGLE host
rs for stealing trade secrets. In its complaint, Express Scripts alleges that former Ernst & Young partner Donald Gravlin “had been sneaking into Express Scripts’ headquarters and stealing confidential and proprietary information belonging to Express Scripts and Medco over the course of several months, with assistance from other E&Y partners and employees.” The complaint alleges Galvin
In a February 19 post to the blog InternetNZ, Susan Chalmers examined the first two cases that came before New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal as part of that country’s “Three Strikes” copyright infringement program. Chalmers wrote that the written decisions showed that the account holders had a limited understanding of the technology they had been punished for using,
A video posted online shows some of the pictures that street photographer Brandon Stanton has used as part of his Humans of New York photo project. In a February 25 post to his Facebook page, Stanton included a photo a fan had sent him from a DKNY store in Bangkok. “The window is full of
During the final lap of the NASCAR Nationwide Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway on February 23, a multi-car crash sent Kyle Larson’s car airborne and into the catch fence. The crash on the eve of NASCAR’s biggest race of the year, The Daytona 500, sent 14 fans to the hospital after a tire
In 2009, Andy Baio, of CreativeMornings, put together an 8-bit version of “Kind of Blue,” the classic Miles Davis album. Baio’s version was entitled “Kind of Bloop” and he had a friend create a pixel-art version of Jay Maisel’s photo for the iconic cover. The photography blog PetaPixel reported that “Baio meticulously licensed all the
An October 2012 video from the LexBlog Network talks about the risk that social game company Zynga took when it sued a former employee for allegedly taking confidential information to a competitor. This came only a few months after Zynga was defending itself from allegations of trade secrets theft. In business litigation, it is important for lawyers
