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- Copyright
- The legal ownership of a "work," which can take any of the following forms: written text, program source code, graphics images, sculpture, music, sound recording, motion picture, pantomime, choreograph and...
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- Social networks: what goes out, what goes in
- "Social Networking 3.0" was on the agenda this afternoon at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. This one was a "must watch" for me, as will be Dan Farber's later today on "The Democratization of Media." You can follow along with the conference's live Webcast here.Moderator Charlene Li, senior analyst...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Podcasting, Live Web, Identity, Copyright, Conferences, Collaboration, Attention
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Lawgarithms Links for 7/28/07
- My Google Reader starred items are the ones I've selected just for you, O Lawgarithms readers. Some current highlights therefrom include:NPR on MP3 blogs, from Scripting News New York Lawyer Advertising Rules Round Up, from Sui Generis--a New York law blog by NBlackThe Pirate Bay Goes Simpsons, from Digg...
- Tags: Social networking, Net neutrality, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Blogging, Attention
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners
- Flickr makes it so easy to find photos, doesn't it? And if you're blogging for a commercial outlet like this one, or, say, Valleywag, it even makes it easy to find photos licensed for commercial use.Yesterday, Valleywag disregarded that when it copied and republished a noncommercially licensed Dan Farber...
- Tags: Social networking, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07
- Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...
- Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Embedding a headache
- Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today picked my brain for his article at the Blog Herald examining the Copyright Risks in Embedding YouTube Clips: [W]ith the read/write Web comes a whole new set of challenges. As we begin to share one another's content like never before, it is not enough to...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Trust, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Why I'm buying an iPhone
- As if anyone needed to list more reasons to buy an iPhone. But I haven't seen anyone save Steve Gillmor write about most of the reasons I'll be buying this device, so here they are.By consolidating phone, contacts, email, music, podcasts, video, and Web in a single device, the...
- Tags: Attention, Copyright, DMCA, Gadgets, User generated content, Video
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media
- There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Global Legal Challenges: General Counsel forum, Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices conference
- (Mark Lemley, Maren Christensen, Daniel Cooperman)There's a group of high profile in-house counsel participated today in the General Counsel forum at Stanford Law School's Fourth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices conference, including: Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School and Keker & Van Nest LLP Maren Christensen, Universal Studios Daniel Cooperman, Oracle Clint Smith, MySQL Kent Walker, Google Ian...
- Tags: Software, Search, Patent, Lawsuits, Free speech, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences, Compliance, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- No iPhone for me, thanks to AT&T!
- Not content to simply spy on Americans without a warrant, AT&T has taken a bold move forward and decided to work with the MPAA and RIAA two of the most hated organizations on the planet, to eliminate copyrighted materials being transmitted between parties on their network.Tip o' the hat to...
- Tags: Apple, Copyright, DRM, Internet Companies, VOIP, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?
- As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result read reputational slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is at bottom a collaborative work that begins with your actions, but thereafter depends on the reactions of others — has...
- Tags: Attention, Copyright, Defamation, Lawsuits, Patent, Privacy, Trademark, Trust
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Google bets billions to lock-in search dominance
- If Google is to continue to be not only the darling of the search world, but the toast of Wall Street as well, it must withstand not only Yahoo and Microsoft head-on competitive search and search advertising initiatives, but up-start Goolge wannabes, to boot, claiming they are the next big thing...
- Tags: Yahoo, Wall Street, Search Advertising, Search, Microsoft, Google, Copyright, Content, AdWords
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- EMI Music spins Google YouTube song and dance
- Just as Internet Kings Chad Hurley and Eric Schmidt were on stage last week at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference spinning YouTube is still working on video copyright protection tools, so no need for multibillion dollar Viacom infringement claims, Hurley was also unleashing a we're copyright owners friends combo pitch in conjunction with...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, Music, Google, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright
- Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week be his famous last words?SEE: Google CEO tows Google line at D5Think Schmidts' recent "Big Brother" musings reflect a Google disregard...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, MySpace, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- AP to copyright infringers: Pay up, for news online
- Has the Web's copyright infringement tide turned? A very "old media" company is taking the digital copyright protection lead, big time.When I met with Jim Brock, CEO of stealth-mode start-up Attributor, in New York City earlier this month, he shared with me his vision for mapping, tracking and assisting in appropriately...
- Tags: Content, Copyright, Media, Newspapers
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Day 1 of iTunes Plus has its minuses
- As Bob Lefsetz rants, the iTunes Plus launch today has not been without its hiccups. He's particularly ticked off that users must go through a laborious "change preferences" process once they've drunk the iTunes Plus Kool-Aid, should they wish at any time to purchase the non-Plus version of a...
- Tags: Copyright, DRM, Licenses
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- IP and the intangibles of access and use
- Hank Barry asked me recently to consider why humans think differently (e.g., we're likely to have less patience for restrictions and controls) about intangible property than we do about things like physical goods and real estate. My response was that in a world of scarce and valued commodities, there...
- Tags: Copyright, Patent, Trademark
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Amused me too
- Was just about to post something along these lines, but see The Vulture already has done all that I could do, and more:USA Today reports that the Regal Entertainment Group, the largest owner of movie theaters in the country, is introducing a wireless device into 114 theaters that allows patrons...
- Tags: Copyright, Trust
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Google YouTube: Will Microsoft, Yahoo have last laugh?
- Robert Scoble headlines: "Google to Yahoo and Microsoft: The $1.65 billion was worth it," as an end game conclusion to Google's much ballyhooed Universal Search: Ahh, now you all understand what I meant when I said YouTube is a moat, not a revenue generator. By putting YouTube results into Google's main...
- Tags: Copyright, Content, Google, Google Ads, Microsoft, Search Advertising, Video, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Google Book Search: Google Manifest Destiny races on
- YouTube copyright lawsuits mount, I reported earlier this week. YouTube parent Google's world information domination ambitions continue to mount as well."Manifest Destiny was a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used...
- Tags: Copyright, Content, Google, Google Apps, Search, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Web content DNA Map: Copyright control, monetization online
- What is the Web’s copyright content DNA?Can it be mapped, tracked and appropriately monetized?Jim Brock believes so, and so does the company he founded, Attributor.Brock, Attributor co-founder and CEO, addressed the Magazine Publishers of America in New York City last week on how to “generate revenue and maintain control of...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Legal, Government, Copyright, Content, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
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