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Computing News | Apple to Pay Bloggers' Legal Fees
Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 23:19 Wednesday, 31st January 2007 GMT
Source: BetaNews
Apple was ordered to pay the legal fees in a case involving two Apple enthusiast sites, seven months after a judgment in its favor was overturned, essentially giving bloggers the same protection as traditional journalists in the state of California.
The case involved Apple rumor sites AppleInsider and PowerPage.org. At issue was the disclosure on both sides of a confidential product code named "Asteroid." The device was never released, but the Cupertino company sued anyway.
In the initial case, a lower court ruled in favor of Apple, saying that the two sites had no right to disclose the information, and an "interested public" was not the same as "public interest," which would be protected speech under the law.
However, a state appeals court disagreed with that ruling in May of last year, saying that bloggers should be afforded the same protections under the Constitution and state law as traditional journalists. Apple later dropped the case.
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