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Goldman v. Digg.com [1]

Submitted by DMLP Staff on Mon, 10/22/2007 - 21:54

Summary

Threat Type: 

Correspondence

Date: 

08/03/2007

Location: 

California

Verdict or Settlement Amount: 

N/A

Legal Claims: 

Copyright Infringement
An attorney for Fred Goldman and his copyright management company, Ron Goldman, LLC, sent a cease and desist letter to Digg.com, a social linking site. In the letter, the attorney alleged that Digg was "encouraging and inducing users of... read full description
Parties

Party Issuing Legal Threat: 

Fred Goldman; Ron Goldman, LLC

Party Receiving Legal Threat: 

Digg.com

Type of Party: 

Individual

Type of Party: 

Intermediary

Location of Party: 

  • Indiana

Location of Party: 

  • California

Legal Counsel: 

Sommer Barnard PC
Description

An attorney for Fred Goldman and his copyright management company, Ron Goldman, LLC, sent a cease and desist letter to Digg.com, a social linking site. In the letter, the attorney alleged that Digg was "encouraging and inducing users of [its] website to download portable document format ('PDF') copies" of the manuscrip for OJ Simpson's book "If I Did It." The letter demanded that Digg cease and desist from distributing the book.

It is unclear what action, if any, Digg took in response, but links to what purports to be the manuscript dating from June 2007 remain on the site. Since Digg does not itself host PDF files, the allegedly infringing activity was most likely a link posted by a Digg user to a PDF file hosted by another website.

Related Links: 

Annotated cease-and-desist letter [2] on Chilling Effects [3].

A Digg page [4]containing a link to the manuscript.

Details

Web Site(s) Involved: 

Digg [5]

Content Type: 

  • Text

Publication Medium: 

Website

Subject Area: 

  • Copyright
  • Linking
Court Information & Documents

Jurisdiction: 

  • California

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Source URL (modified on 08/20/2014 - 11:03pm): https://www.dmlp.org/threats/goldman-v-diggcom

Links
[1] https://www.dmlp.org/threats/goldman-v-diggcom
[2] http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/notice.cgi?NoticeID=13893
[3] http://www.chillingeffects.org/
[4] http://digg.com/celebrity/OJ_Did_It_Manuscript_Leaked_Online
[5] http://www.digg.com