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Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School

Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law SchoolIs Donna Viacom's Bedfellow?This woman is clearly out of line in her manner of thinking when it comes to the Viacom/Youtube debate. This is about a company, Viacom, who knew their shady method of sending out legal DMCA notices 100,000...

Tags: Harvard Law School, YouTube Inc., content creator, Viacom Inc., Chilling Effects, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-17

Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School

The Super Bowl put forth a super opportunity for Wendy Seltzer, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.Seltzer acknowledged at her blog:I snipped the copyright warning out of the weekends Super Bowl broadcast as an example for my copyright class of how far copyright claimants exaggerate...

Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-02-17

Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life

As if a virtual world created by its residents wasnt wacky enough, a quirky Harvard professor has announced hes going to hold a law class there, reports The Harvard Crimson. Harvard Law professor Charles R. Nesson is offering a course called "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,"...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-09-28

Whirlwind day at Harvard's Berkman Center

I wanted to publicly say thanks to the folks at The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School HLS for having me over for most of the day Tuesday earlier this week. I'm purposely not naming names because I know I'll leave someone...

Tags: Berkman Center, mashup

Blog posts 2006-01-12

Additional Resources

US cyberwarriors a reluctant crew

The Obama Administration will one day have a whole slate of cybersecurity and cyberwar experts, but that doesn't mean the Defense community will be ready to let loose offensive cyber attacks. According to a report in Sunday's New York Times, planning for such attacks has been in...

Tags: Computer Network, Cyberattack, Attack, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-02

Tenenbaum defense relies on hot air, not facts

Wacky Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson crumbled a styrofoam box and displayed a "Necker Cube" optical illusion in his opening statement in the Joel Tenenbaum filesharing trial, Ben Sheffner reports from Boston for Ars Technica. That proved apparently that the Internet transformed the quantum of music from...

Tags: Witness, Music, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-28

US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code

This Green Dam story just keeps getting weirder. First, China issues this mandate that all new PCs will have to have software called Green Dam-Youth Escort preinstalled. It's claimed the software is just a porn filter, even though China runs the powerful Great Firewall of China, already. ...

Tags: Software, China, Developer, Solid Oak, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-13

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegal

Class action lawsuit says Google's sales of keywords illegalproof reader anyone?Richard , what does the following mean?"since anyone searching on the word will the sponsored links of her competitors at the top of Google results page, The New York Times reports."Any chance of me working as your proof reader?RE: Class...

Tags: Sales strategy, sales, Google Inc., class action

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

TurnItIn's archiving of student papers is fair use, court says

Check out my Fair Use Blog at fairuselaw.wordpress.com iParadigms' TurnItIn.com is a service marketed to high schools and colleges in which student papers are entered into a database and then pattern-checked for signs of plagiarism. Several students in Northern Virginia came up with a clever attack on...

Tags: Use, Factor, Archiving, Work, TurnItIn, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Opposition to Google's book deal: Just Microsoft?

Last fall, Google announced a breakthrough deal with book authors -- a $125 million fund from which authors would be compensated in exchange for Google being able to scan and display book images. I noted at the time that the deal offered a way out of...

Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-04

How to make Government 2.0 a reality

Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...

Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Google blames 'human error' for search 'malware' hiccup

Google is blaming "human error" for today's search results screw-up that flagged the entire Web as serving up malicious code. But the company's explanation, detailed in a blog post by VP of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer incorrectly linked StopBadware.org to...

Tags: Google Inc., Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Search, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-01-31

Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?

So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...

Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Harvard's Charlie Nesson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation

In a major development in RIAA litigation, Prof. Charles Neeson of Harvard Law School is charging that the RIAA's tactics are an abuse of federal process and that the law on which the litgation rests -- the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 -- is unconstitutional....

Tags: RIAA, Harvard, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Will vendors now boycott Massachusetts?

Is Brown going to replace Harvard as America's premier medical school campus? Will Harvard and MIT faculty start fighting for visiting privileges there, in order to skirt the law and get more coffee mugs? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: business operations, corporate insurance, dana blankenhorn, finance, financial planning, insurance, management, massachusetts, strategy

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Lessons from American university education

Lessons from American university educationCorrectionsYou wrote: Not only are graduates easy pickings for companies who want the best and brightest in the world (or rather, would be, if our own government wasn't so intent on sending them back to their home countries), but they create opportunities for private money to...

Tags: college system, private college, education, American University

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw

The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user's Desktop Windows or...

Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Flaw, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Instant Messaging, Cyberthreats, Internet, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Bebchuk, Board, Business Operations, Carl Icahn, Chairman, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Shareholder, Yahoo Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2008-05-15

UC Law bans classroom web access

I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...

Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-14