Legal Issues and Policy: ISP Liability for 3rd Party Content/Conduct

OPG v. Diebold
Diebold, Inc., manufacturer of electronic voting machines, has been sending out many cease-and-desist letters to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), after internal documents indicating flaws in their systems were published on the Internet. The company cited copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and demanded that the documents be taken down. EFF and the Center for the Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic at Stanford Law School are fighting back.

Press Releases

Naas v. Anonymizer
Directory of information on an Ohio lawsuit against Anonymizer.com (a provider of anonymous Internet service) and several other parties (mostly John Doe defendants), in which a defamed plaintiff attempts to hold the service provider liable for third parties' defamatory statements.

CoStar v. LoopNet
Information regarding the CoStar v. LoopNet copyright infringement case. The district court dismissed the direct infringement claim against LoopNet, which hosted allegedly infringing photographs on its website. The court also addressed the application of the DMCA's 512 "safe harbor" provisions.

CDA 230 Cases
An archive of information about a number of CDA 230 Cases.