アップル社、ブロガーに対する情報漏洩訴訟で却下される
ブログに対して、企業機密を漏洩した訴訟で法廷がアップルの主張を却下した。これで情報源の匿名性が守られた。ただ、ThinkSecretに対する類似の訴訟はまだ係争中。
"The Sixth District Court of Appeals on Friday roundly rejected (.pdf) Apple's argument that the bloggers weren't acting as journalists when they posted internal document about future Apple products. 'We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes 'legitimate journalis(m).' The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here,' the court wrote. "