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- Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster
- On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight
- A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...
- Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-23
- Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges
- So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....
- Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Anti-sexting insanity out of control: False charges ruin vice principal
- The war against sexting has now reached absurd, outrageous, McCarthyite dimensions. I had thought this story about a prosecutor threatening prosecution of three girls for snapping pics of themselves in bras and a towel was bad enough. But Kim Zetter's story at Wired about the ordeal of...
- Tags: Phone, Child Pornography, Photograph, Image, Girl, Ting-Yi Oei, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees vent
- Union: IBM layoffs accelerating as employees ventSmiling Sam does it againIt seems to me that the government is overlooking one of the critical components of this economic meltdown - the offshoring of American jobs. IBM is one of the worst offenders in this regard. This one...
- Tags: Workforce management, Litigation, Financial accounting, Proskauer Rose, Madoff, IBM Corp., SEC, layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Once more on SCO
- From this blog for January 8 2008: What's worst about [the hate mail I get when ever I comment on SCO] , however, is that the "groklaw effect" has become a significant component in the overall Linux "gestalt" - and just about everything most of that mob has been...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Unix, IBM Corp., Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-21
- No judicial notice for Wikipedia
- It seems that courts will not take judicial notice of Wikipedia entries. A Texas appellate court declined a defendant's request that the court take notice of Wiki's page on the Reid technique of interviewing and interrogation, the Internet Cases blog notes. Fed. R. Evid. 201 provides...
- Tags: Notice, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Awaiting decision on new trial in Thomas case
- Apparently, it is RIAA day here at the govtech blog. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on the upcoming decision in the Thomas case. Jammie Thomas, of course, was hit with $220,000 is statutory fines for copyright infringement. The verdict was based on a "making available" theory (see this article...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses
- Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license â€" and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law â€" the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday. The decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer PDF reverses a District Court holding that the a violation...
- Tags: License, Radcliffe, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- California Pleading Templates Package 3.1.2 (Windows)
- California Pleading Templates Package is a pleading software and template package for major California and Federal District & Appellate courts. Other state court templates can also be added after purchase. The product provides a menu driven interface to create correctly formatted pleadings. Law firm address and attorney names with state...
- Tags: California, Template, California Pleading Templates Package, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Litigation, Microsoft Windows, Office Suites, Software, Business Operations, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2008-08-14
- Second Circuit overturns remote-DVR ban
- New York cable operator Cablevision's planned remote-storage digital video recorder does not violate Hollywood studios' copyrights, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today PDF. The decision overturns a district court ruling that blocked introduction of the device because, the lower court said, it would directly...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas caseI don't buy the argument......that a copyright holder should have to prove an actual distribution took place. Given the circumstances it's obvious to anyone who isn't clouded by RIAA hatred the files were there to be copied by anyone. Does this mean...
- Tags: Copiers, RIAA, actual distribution
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PATENT Process, Patenting software, patent, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Google's Eric Schmidt: "What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate."
- Ken Auletta's "The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capital Hill critics" article in the recent New Yorker has some good tidbits about how Google operates. He sits in on a product review meeting and speaks with numerous people at Google and close to company to paint a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Arrogance, Productivity, Internet, Document Management, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Vonage settles patent suit with Verizon for no more than $120 million: now they'll turn to AT&T
- Reuters reports this afternoon that Vonage says it has settled a patent disput with Verizon. Vonage said the final terms of the settlement depend on a court of appeals decision on Vonage's petition for a rehearing on its patents, but the amount will be capped at $32...
- Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Reuters Ltd., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirs
- A footnote near the end of last week's partial remand decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, first found by University of Missouri law professor Dennis Crouch, could be interpreted as a legal recourse for giving Vonage a break in its patent disputes with...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, eBay Inc., Prof, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts
- AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Just in: Vonage gets a break in Verizon patent suit: monetary award vacated
- On the heels of the Sprint vs. Vonage patent infringement ruling that is most certainly not OK for Vonage and its users, Vonage did receive a bit of good news today in its Patent dispute with Verizon. In a nutshell: Vonage won't have to pay Verizon...
- Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
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