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In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's Bootcamp: In the trenches with Live Web law at EFF's BootcampLegal Dept is now part of your communication team.."I am hard pressed to conceive of a Web-based communication platform, community, or business model that doesn’t need this kind of overview." Is anybody listening too Ms Howell???Now if we can...; Tags: Channel management, Live Web, Bootcamp, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Web; Discussion threads 2007-10-18
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
Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?: Chris Pirillo is on Pownce at pownce.com/chrispirillo, and has 69 friends. Or wait, that's not Chris. I can scarcely catalog the related legal considerations, which include:Can Chris stop someone from using his name and likeness without his consent? Possibly, under right of publicity laws, but the ones...; Tags: Trademark, Tags, Social networking, Live Web, Identity, Free speech, Defamation; 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

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
Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikely: My thoughts about consensus on a blogging code of conduct are unchanged: consensus is unlikely, but the discussion is useful. Here are some comments I sent this morning to an editor at Der Spiegel Online (is it just me, or is the tenor of these questions in keeping...; Tags: Voice, Trust, Free speech, Live Web, Defamation, Collaboration, Blogging, Attention, Anonymity; Blog posts 2007-04-10
Technorati's transitions to the Live Web and taggers: I didnt know this but Technorati has gone from being a company that basically searches blogs to being the "recognized authority on user-generated content search" and "pre-eminent authority on what people are saying online." In any case, despite the lofty self references, the company issued its latest today state of...; Tags: Web Technology, Search, General; Blog posts 2007-04-05
Clarifying my comments to the BBC: Jane Wakefields follow-up piece for the BBC about Kathy Sierra is now available: Call for blogging code of conduct. Im quoted in the piece and would like to clarify a couple of points and provide you with all the comments I provided her.Im presented in the article as...; Tags: Jane Wakefield, Live Web, blogging, blogger, British Broadcasting Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-28
Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?: Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...; Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity; Blog posts 2007-02-26
Breast defense: Its no secret that publicly posting demand letters on a blog, in addition to submitting to Chilling Effects, is an excellent responsive strategy. The Lactivist is currently plying these waters. The unsurprising result? A wealth of resulting attention and empathy, and a PR nightmare for The National...; Tags: Blogging, Live Web, Trademark, Attention; Blog posts 2007-02-02
iPhone misses Live Web integration opportunities: Dont get me wrong: I want an iPhone, and will own one just as soon as is humanly possible. But the thing that most surprises me about the device as Ive followed along with the coverage is the extent to which Apple appears to be leaving Live Web...; Tags: Blogging, Podcasting, User generated content, Vlogging, Wireless, Collaboration, iPhone, Apple iPhone; Blog posts 2007-01-10
Podcasting, social networks, read/write Web, and video dominate Google's '06 Zeitgeist: Per Googles 2006 Zeitgeist:"podcasting" was the 4th most popular Google News search of the year; "Bebo" and "MySpace" were the #1 and #2 most popular Web searches;"Metacafe" and "video" were the #4 and #7 most popular Web searches; "Wikipedia" and "wiki" were the #6 and #10 most popular Web searches;...; Tags: SEARCH, Podcasts, Wiki, video, network, social networking, popular Web search, Internet search, Web, podcasting, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-12-18
UMG sues MySpace in a no-lose proposition, draws Grokster judge: Last Friday, Universal Music Group filed copyright infringement claims against MySpace, claiming that MySpace and News Corp. are "liable for the direct infringement of [UMGs] copyrights, and for aiding, facilitating, and inducing the infringement of [UMGs] copyrights by countless MySpace users."Steve OHear provides terrific context in the form of...; Tags: Copyright, DMCA, Licenses, Live Web, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, User generated content, Video, Mashups; Blog posts 2006-11-20
NBC Universal launches DotComedy: NBC Universal today launches its new comedy "broadband channel," DotComedy. The site is an interesting reflection of YouTube in a couple of ways. On the one hand, its a pretty obvious effort to entice users into enjoying NBC Universal-owned content under the NBC Universal tent as opposed to...; Tags: Blogging, Copyright, DMCA, Live Web, Social networking, Tags, Video, NBC, NBC Universal, DotComedy; Blog posts 2006-11-09
Web 2.0 asks parents and teens, who uploads? Answer: everyone: Safa Rashtchy, managing director of Piper Jaffray and a senior research analyst focused on internet media and marketing, is interviewing a panel of 5 teens and 4 parents about their Internet habits. The whole thing has been full of gems and laughs at the expense of one company or...; Tags: Blogging, Conferences, Live Web, User generated content, Collaboration, Attention, Answer; Blog posts 2006-11-09
"The Pirate and the Suit" at Web 2.0: This afternoon at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, John Battelle brought together David Munns, vice chairman of EMI Music worldwide and chairman and CEO of EMI Music North America, and Eric Kleptone of the Kleptones. EMI has been on the front lines of the mashup wars, first with D.J....; Tags: Conferences, Copyright, DMCA, DRM, Licenses, Live Web, Social networking, User generated content, Mashups, EMI Group Plc.; Blog posts 2006-11-09
In the era of the Live Web, tweak your client and bungle your pitch at your peril: In the era of the Live Web, tweak your client and bungle your pitch at your perilThis shocks you?The inventor didn't even read the patent. I wonder if the patent examiner caught it also?Clumsiness hardly ever does......but if you're going to be as brazen as this lawyer was, you'd...; Tags: Channel management, Live Web, inventor, Web; Discussion threads 2006-11-08
In the era of the Live Web, tweak your client and bungle your pitch at your peril: One of Professor Eugene Volokhs readers mined the publicly available patent applications and found this comedy nugget:Check out claim 9 of this patent application:9. The method of providing user interface displays in an image forming apparatus which is really a bogus claim included amongst real claims, and which should be...; Tags: Live Web, Marketing, Privacy, User generated content, Voice, Patent, Attention; Blog posts 2006-11-08