by sagevh | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
On February 10, 2012, the U.S. Copyright Office will stop accepting public comment on proposed administrative exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s “access control” provisions. Fresh from their SOPA and PIPA victories, organizations...
by bernfeld | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
These were the words written in an email by Mathias Ortmann to Bram Van Der Kolk. Who, you might ask? Ortmann and Van Der Kolk are two of the recently indicted parties to the Megaupload conspiracy, and this email was publicized in the indictment. You know, that...
by anickow | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary |
The social media website Twitter announced in a recent blog post entitled “The Tweets Must Still Flow” its plan to enact a new censorship initiative. “Starting today,” Twitter announced, “we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a...
by nsehic | Jan 25, 2012 | Commentary |
The latest installment of the US v. Jones saga has just arrived. In a decision released earlier today, the Supreme Court held that government installation and monitoring of a GPS device on a suspect’s vehicle constitutes a “search” under the Fourth Amendment. (For a...
by sqi | Jan 25, 2012 | Commentary |
Back in September last year, Facebook was sued by Timelines.com for allegedly infringing the latter’s trademark right over the word “Timeline” in introducing the Facebook Timeline feature. Timelines.com is a website that allows users to record and share events,...
by Andrew Samuels | Jan 25, 2012 | Commentary |
The campaign for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has sued the anonymous creators of a controversial video that was attributed to the campaign, claiming false designation of origin, false advertising, and defamation. The video, which has tallied over 300,000...
