{"id":590,"date":"2012-06-22T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2012-06-22T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T21:22:00","slug":"facebook-sponsored-stories-proposed-settlement-valued-at-over-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/litigation\/case-law\/facebook-sponsored-stories-proposed-settlement-valued-at-over-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sponsored Stories proposed settlement valued at over $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports today on the rights of publicity class action proposed settlement by which Facebook would\u00a0agree to make it clear to users that when they click to like a product on Facebook, their names and photos can be used to plug the product.\u00a0They will also be given a chance to decline the opportunity to be unpaid endorsers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New York Times Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/22\/technology\/to-settle-suit-facebook-alters-policies-for-like-button.html#h[]\" target=\"_blank\">Read the NYT article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary motion for approval of the settlement in the Fraley et al. \u00a0v. Facebook case is available here: <a title=\"Digital Commons @ SCU.edu\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.law.scu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&amp;context=historical\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will Facebook&#8217;s advertising business be affected as a result of this proposed change is uncertain, but IPmetrics&#8217; Chief Economist, hired by the plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers, testified that giving users the choice to block their participation in the Sponsored Stories advertising product could cost Facebook $103 million in advertising revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-9w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}