by ghans | Feb 2, 2011 | Commentary |
Wired and the Wall Street Journal have reported that Google has accused Bing, Microsoft’s Internet search engine, of copying Google’s search results. Google reports that Microsoft initially denied this claim; later, Wired revealed that Microsoft was...
by ghans | Jan 19, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The New York Times has an amusing article about Jeff Koons, the prominent artist whose use of pop culture imagery has made him somewhat of a successor to Andy Warhol in the contemporary art scene. Koons is accusing two businesses – a San Francisco bookstore and...
by ghans | Jan 18, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Tina Fey and the writers on NBC’s hit comedy 30 Rock have gotten a lot of comedic mileage out of the proposed NBC-Comcast (or NBC-Kabletown, in the show’s version) merger, but there hasn’t been a lot of laughter today as the Federal Communications...
by ghans | Jan 12, 2011 | Legal/Tech News |
NPR News is reporting that Shepard Fairey, the prominent street artist and graphic designer behind the OBEY and HOPE posters, has settled with the Associated Press. The AP had sued Fairey, alleging that he had used without permission a photograph whose copyright was...
by ghans | Jan 12, 2011 | Legal/Tech News, Technology |
The New York Times has a front page story today on the decline of mySpace, the once-popular social networking site that has now been outpaced by Facebook. As with other social networking sites, mySpace has struggled to maintain its popularity; a high-profile merger...
