Defamatory

Kevin Hart can’t force celebrity gossip blogger Latasha “TashaK” Kebe to remove her allegedly “defamatory” interview with Hart’s ex-assistant from her website – at least not yet – a judge ruled Thursday. During a hearing on the dispute in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff said Hart’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order failed to include a transcript of Kebe’s interview with Miesha Shakes and left him wondering if he was expected to pay the $12 necessary to view the…

Blockbuster director Michael Bay is not having a happy new year. In what’s shaping up to be the weirdest story of the year so far, the explosive movie master is vehemently denying claims a pigeon was killed on the set of Netflix film 6 Underground. Now, Bay is demanding the publication that made the report make a correction or retract their “harmful and malicious” claim. The film was filmed in Rome where pigeons are a protected species under Italian law. In Italy, people are prohibited from harming, injuring, or…

SYDNEY—Australia’s highest court ruled that Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.30% Google isn’t liable for defamatory content that can be accessed via a hyperlink in its search results, a win for Google in a jurisdiction that has at times taken a hard line against tech platforms. The case involved a lawyer, George Defteros, who alleged that a Google search of his name returned a hyperlink to and a snippet of a newspaper article that was…

Photo: Mehaniq (Shutterstock)An Australian Court announced Monday that Google will need to pay $515,000 for refusing to remove two YouTube videos about John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier. Despite those damages being a small drop in the bucket for Google and its owner Alphabet, it may be a canary in a coal mine for how even more social companies could face even more legal action for users’ content.The videos cited in the suit were created by YouTuber Jordan Shanks, who also goes by…

An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker AUD 715,000 (roughly Rs. 40,001,300), saying its failure to take down a YouTuber's "relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory campaign" of videos drove him out of politics.The Federal Court found the Alphabet company, which owns content-sharing website YouTube, made money by broadcasting two videos attacking the then-deputy premier of New South Wales — Australia's most populous state — that have been viewed nearly 800,000 times since…