Internet advertising firm Gator has filed a lawsuit asking a
federal court in San Francisco to declare that placing pop-up ads
on other companies' web sites does not violate the rights of the
sites' operators, according to a story by Bloomberg.
Gator was recently sued by major companies, including the
Washington Post and United Parcel Service, which are upset that
those running Gator's software will see ads when they visit their
sites which the site operators did not authorise.
It lost the first round of that case and is appealing the ruling
in a Virginia court – in addition to seeking the declaration from
the Californian court that its practices are lawful.
