By Matthew J. Schwartz, InformationWeek Good news for Megaupload users: Your data just got a two-week reprieve from being deleted. Friday, U.S. district attorney Neil MacBride had written to Megaupload’s lawyers, informing them that federal investigators had finished reviewing Megaupload data, and that it could be deleted from servers just one week later. “It is […]
ONE recent afternoon in the offices of the Midtown law firm run by David Boies and his powerful litigation partners, a large black clamshell box sat on a conference table. Inside were raucous, sometimes wildly funny collages of photographs and magazine pages handmade by the artist Richard Prince, works of art that have become the […]
These dueling yogis have their practices tied up in knots. Bikram Choudhury, famed creator of Bikram Yoga, is suing Yoga to the People in the East Village for stealing his signature sequence of yoga poses. Choudhury is demanding $1 million from Gregory Gumucio, a former student and the owner of Yoga to the People, for […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Facebook of engaging in “unfair and deceptive” practices, the federal government on Tuesday announced a broad settlement that requires the company to respect the privacy wishes of its users and subjects it to regular privacy audits for the next 20 years. The order, announced by the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, […]
An organic farm that drew national headlines when it began growing vegetables on a Long Island City roof has been sued by a national farmers advocacy group over its name. The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry claims the Brooklyn Grange cannot use the word “grange” in its title because it has […]
CBS scored another legal victory in its long-running fight with the Federal Communications Commission over Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during a Super Bowl halftime show. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld its earlier ruling that the FCC’s indecency fine of $500,000 against the network was invalid. At […]