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Copyright Declaratory Judgment Claim Dismissed

An interesting case just came down, and it was Domain Tools, LLC vs. Russ Smith and Consumer.net LLC. And essentially what happened was that Russ Smith objected to the fact that Domain Tools which is an archiving and data and DNS and who is website, was actually archiving his website, Russ Smith's website, at Consumer.net, and putting it into their database so that other third people could go through and see what his website looked like at particular points.

Website Agreements Can Help You Avoid Class Actions by Website Visitors

Class action is a special type of lawsuit which is sometimes available in circumstances where everyone in the class is essentially identical. So all the legal rights are identical of the people who would be part of the class action. The clearest example, the most illustrative example in law, is when you've got people who own stock in a company. Their ownership rights represented by the stock certificates are identical for each person that owns shares of stock. So one person who owns that share of stock can actually bring a class action against the company on behalf of all the shareholders. That's an example of a class action.