NewsFactor - A French film company is taking Google to court, charging the search giant with copyright violations in connection with the distribution of "The World According to Bush" on the Google France Web site.

California Permits Internet Re-defamation Playfuls.com, Romania - California's Supreme Court has ruled only those people who originate defamatory remarks on the Internet can be sued and not those who republish them. ...

The news that Lee Siegel, a senior editor at The New Republic, has been suspended by the magazine for using a "sock puppet" or Internet alias to respond to critics on his web- log, has stimulated predictable delight among other