by bfin | Apr 24, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
Last month, copyright students at Michigan Law were able to engage in a Q&A after a presentation from Alfred Perry, the VP of Worldwide Content Protection at Paramount Pictures. The topic? SOPA, PIPA, and the legal issues that surround file-sharing websites, like...
by anickow | Mar 29, 2012 | Commentary |
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted down an amendment to FCC legislation that would prohibit employers from asking or demanding that potential employees disclose their Facebook usernames and passwords as part of the interview screening process. This...
by anickow | Mar 22, 2012 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Wrapping up six years of heated litigation, Sony offered an $8 million settlement this week in a class action lawsuit led by The Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick, accusing Sony of underpaying the bands’ digital record royalties. Originally filed back in 2006,...
by jmacpher | Mar 21, 2012 | Commentary, Quick Links |
Last year, two teams of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) succeeded in genetically modifying the H5N1 avian flu virus. The modified virus is capable of respiratory transmission between ferrets, suggesting that it would also be...
by Suman Tatpudy | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary |
The Bollywood film industry has been using ideas from foreign films since its inception. This “borrowing” has ranged from melodies for background scores to entire plot summaries and even translated dialogues. However, with the advent of technology and the increasing...
by Stephen Uffelman | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
When Dick Costolo succeeded Evan Williams as the CEO of Twitter, the social network blogged about the occasion with a post entitled “#newtwitterceo”. This is an example of a new kind of link—the hashtag—and its popularity is growing rapidly. The #-symbol...
