Realty Company Sues Craigslist Over User-Generated Ads

Craigslist is reportedly existence sued for stylemark infringement. A actual realty consort in Texas titled First disposition Properties is locution that it began bill ads on Craigslist in March, and that after that, a competitor titled AAA Apartment Locating began bill ads using phrases same "first call," "call first," and "call us first."

According to MediaPost, First disposition titled Craigslist, AAA and digit individuals as defendants. The housing has been dispatched to agent Court.

Clearly, this is not the prototypal instance cases same this hit prefabricated the news. It's meet the prototypal instance that Craigslist has been on the receiving modify of much a suit. Google has sure been there. MediaPost's Wendy solon points discover that these cases don't commonly intend likewise farther in court, but digit between Google and Geico was settled.
 
"This is foolish in some sort of ways: first, as daylong as the ad itself is not unclear much that the reverend (or a moron in a rushing reader) would conceive that the ad is from the example consort kinda than the competitor, there's not probable to be a stylemark violation," says Mike Masnick at TechDirt. "More importantly, modify if there is a stylemark violation, it should not be Google's liability, since they're only the assist provider. The badness (if there is any) would be on whoever created the ad."

There is added engrossing characteristic to the Craigslist case. According to MediaPost, First disposition also says the AAA ads are libelous, and feature things same "First disposition Properties is a Scam," but solon points to a country of the Communications Decency Act, which says sites can't be sued for libel supported on user-generated content.

It module be engrossing to wager the outcome of this case. Craigslist could settle, but supported on time Google experience, it module belike meet disappear.