Monday, April 11, 2011

DOES THIS MEAN WE GET A SEQUEL? In a ruling from Alex Kozinski today, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss had their efforts to set aside an earlier litigation settlement relating to Facebook tossed by the Ninth Circuit. The opinion's interesting not just because Kozinski comes down on the side of "Winklevosses" rather than "Winklevoss Parties" or "Winklevii," but also because it discloses (perhaps for the first time) that the Winklevii were at least alleged to have hacked into Facebook "to purloin user data." The legal issues honestly aren't that interesting (basically, questions are whether a term sheet can function as a complete agreement or just an "agreement to agree" and whether it's possible to defraud someone represented by sophisticated counsel), but if Kozinski is to be heeded, this story is now at its end. HT: Prof. Eric Goldman's Twitter Feed.
Posted by Matt at 2:14 PM

6 comments:

  1. Russ3:44 PM

    <p><span>[HN3]<span>  </span>46<span>  </span>CINEMATIC LAW</span>
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    <span><span>dcvgt4(z)<span>  </span>Intellectual Property</span></span><span>.<span>  </span>If petitioners had invented Facebook, such fact would have been evident to others, because they would have invented Facebook.</span></p>

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  2. Jake5:13 PM

    Did anyone else have "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing in their head while reading the opinion (with the musical climax coinciding with "AFFIRMED")?

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  3. Adam C.5:32 PM

    In the "We're always the last ones to do ANYTHING" Sweepstakes, we finally maneged to rent The Social Network this weekend.  Whoever did the subtitles rendered the plural form as Winklevi.  One i.  Which was disappointing.

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  4. Jenn.5:37 PM

    Gotta enjoy the headline on this article about the decision.

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  5. Benner5:41 PM

    interesting that one twin rows port and the other starboard. 

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  6. isaac_spaceman9:35 PM

    Pure speculation, but if you grow up rowing pair sweep, that would be natural.  Also, if two people were exactly the same size with the same musculature, wouldn't you want them rowing opposite sides to get perfectly symmetrical force? 

    Those two sentences came straight out of my ass and likely are utter nonsense. 

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