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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
- Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask Microsoft
- RE: Is it OK to use OEM Windows on your own PC? Don't ask MicrosoftI built my current desktop in July and purchased/installed an OEM version of Vista Home Premium. I also took advantage of Microsoft's free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium which I installed on the same PC....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating systems, cost difference, Microsoft Corp., OEM, Is it OK, Microsoft Windows, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-11-15
- Groklaw suggests Microsoft sue, do over authentication
- Are you in any way trying to legitimize patent trolling?You are well aware that what Microsoft is doing is what we all used to call patent trolling aren't you?My guess...Nothing will happen... this is just MS trying to protect UAC and runas from paten lawsuits.Besides MS would be idiot... well...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, authentication, Groklaw, patent, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Why not pay for what works?
- Lawsuits not a costly issueThat's a typical republican, politcal response. Studies have been done to show that's it's a very small percentage of overall costs in healthcare. Not that tort reform wouldn't help, it's just a small issue in the big picture.Most unnecessarly procedures are generally performed...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Betsy McCaughey
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Scary study on how lack of IPOs is harming US economy
- The cart before the horse?With low skilled/educated labor and low negative savings rate, I don't think the ingredients for a fundamental rebound exist in the US. I guess Wall Street would like to continue to be able to fleece us, but hopefully, being taken once is enough for most investors....
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, economic destruction, same policy, IPO, carbon tax, USSR, socialist
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- 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
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