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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Section 230 as safe harbor for case-based identity systems?
- Tags: User generated content, Trust, Social networking, Search, Lawsuits, Identity, Attention
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- 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
- Digg and cracking HD-DVD: Reimerdes comes to social news
- Techmeme is all a-flutter, and my ZDNet colleagues have been right on top of the Digg/HD-DVD crack story. Heres my quick take on things, as I run off to OnHollywood where Kevin Rose spoke this morning:Nothing says Digg has to respond to a mere demand letter under any circumstances....
- Tags: Voice, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?
- Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Perfect 10 v. CCBill: "direct financial benefit" means infringing material must draw users, says Ninth Circuit
- Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill PDF, that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, Live Web, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policy
- Point 1 about Viacom v. YouTube: There is no calling how this case will come out if/as the parties pursue it through the federal courts — Declan McCullagh: Section 512 says Web site operators must not "receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), video, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Blogging jury duty
- Next Mondays issue of the National Law Journal includes an article Juror Blogs Complicate Trials about the uneasy marriage between ubiquitous publishing and communications technologies and the courtroom, specifically in the context of jury duty. It points out that jurors are increasingly posting about their experiences to their blogs,...
- Tags: Blogging, Free speech, Lawsuits, Podcasting, User generated content, Voice, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Give me my Google Click-Throughs
- Did you see that Michael Geoghegan and Gigavox Media have put out a WordPress plugin that helps streamline the process of obtaining release agreements from podcast guests? The plugin automates the process of creating a click-through agreement. Heres an example; no legalese included. (In other words, theyre...
- Tags: Collaboration, Lawsuits, Office 2.0, Podcasting, Software, User generated content
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Section 230 immunizes MySpace from both conduct and speech, says district court
- Evan Brown has a good summary of last weeks Doe v. MySpace decision, wherein a federal district court in Texas threw out claims against MySpace due to the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As Evan describes:Julie Doe, the anonymous minor plaintiff, lied about her...
- Tags: Blogging, Compliance, Free speech, Lawsuits, Privacy, Social networking, User generated content, Virtual worlds
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- My take on Apple's music monopoly case
- Larry Dignan recently had an excellent overview of the antitrust tying case currently pending against Apple. The case is pled as a class action, and the determination of whether class action treatment is appropriate can often determine whether or not, as a practical matter, the case will proceed. ...
- Tags: Lawsuits, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iTunes
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
Additional Resources
- Microsoft's lawyers will be busy in the next few months
- In the midst of all the Windows 7 hoopla last week, Microsoft released its first quarter fiscal 2010 10-Q. In that document was mention of a number of the pending lawsuits against the company that are due to see some action during Microsoft's fiscal 2010. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- ZapShares 3.2 (Windows)
- Using P2P file sharing software such as LimeWire, uTorrent, Azureus Vuze, BitTorrent, eMule, or Ares to share music, movies, or software can expose you to lawsuits by copyright holders and identity theft. ZapShares scans and monitors your computer, identifying potential security threats caused by file sharing software, and ensures that...
- Tags: Software, Lawsuit, P2P, Microsoft Windows, ZapShares, Peer To Peer (P2P), Identity Theft, Internet, Security
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Nokia frustrated by iPhone US success? Sues Apple over wireless patents
- Yes, Nokia has to be frustrated, but, they should put their efforts into anAndroid phone and forget the patent lawsuits. Patents...If Apple didn't get an agreement to use Nokia's IP, then Apple should face a court of law and be held to account.Considering all the other phone makers realize this...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, wireless, Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., patent, GSM
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Don't tase me in the chest, bro
- Seems like a legal memo to me...It seems to me that when a person receives an electric shock, it doesn't matter where it enters the body, chest, legs, shoulder, neck etc. All the same.Taser is starting to cover it's behind, now that a Canadian judicial enquiry has determined that in...
- Tags: What-if IT, NOW IT, TASER, aspirin, chest, cop, risk
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim
- why sue the oil companiesSue the polluters starting with China....and good luck with that!RE: Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claimHave you heard of the Sun? It has more to do with climate change than Humanity can ever aspire too. These lawsuits can only cripple those who're doing...
- Tags: Kivalina, lawsuit
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim
- A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
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