by burnsce | Feb 24, 2013 | Commentary, Quick Links |
Microsoft has created a new ad campaign attacking Gmail. And for good reason: Gmail has 425 million active users as of June 2012. As of November 2012, the new Outlook has only 25 million users. Microsoft’s campaign is striking on the fact that Gmail...
by pkeros | Feb 12, 2013 | Commentary |
This past July, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that digital software distributions services, such as Steam and Origin, cannot prevent users from reselling their digital copies of games, regardless of the EULA they signed. Using what seems similar to...
by amalson | Feb 4, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, MTTLR Journal |
The University of Michigan just recently won a lawsuit in which the University was alleged of copyright infringement in its effort to digitize its library contents. On September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines...
by kuvelker | Feb 1, 2013 | Commentary |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s ruling in American Petroleum Institute v. EPA (issued January 25, 2013) regarding cellulosic biofuel regulation is an interesting example of the interplay between law and economics. The court ruled in...
by schiffms | Jan 25, 2013 | Commentary |
January 3, 2013 marked the end of the 112th Congress and beginning of the 113th Congress, and with it, the death of the Innovative Design Protection Act of 2012 (IDPA). The bill, proposed by Senator Chuck Schumer in September 2012, would have amended Chapter 13 of the...
by mavann | Jan 20, 2013 | Commentary |
After an almost two-year probe by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) into whether Google Inc. used its monopoly on the Internet search market to illegally injure its rivals, on January 3, Google avoided a potentially crippling federal antitrust...