by cjsch | Jan 11, 2011 | Commentary |
The American government continues to investigate Wikileaks director Julian Assange, more than a month after the organization first released diplomatic cables to five newspapers. Prosecutors have yet to charge Mr. Assange, who has already weathered rumors of possible...
by ghans | Jan 6, 2011 | Commentary |
January 1 of each year marks the expansion of the public domain – at least in theory. When creative materials lose their copyright protection as granted by the U.S. Copyright Act, they pass into the public domain, making them free for use by anyone within the...
by petehd | Jan 4, 2011 | Commentary |
In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Simply Storage Management, a U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Indiana concluded that information from social networking sites is discoverable by an employer defending a sexual harassment claim. In 2009, the...
by beckersc | Jan 4, 2011 | Commentary |
On December 21st, the FCC passed a report and order designed to promulgate net neutrality. The Commission opens its report with three basic rules “grounded in broadly accepted Internet norms, as well as [its] own prior decisions”: i. Transparency. Fixed...
by Justin Blanset | Dec 13, 2010 | Commentary |
How is MasterCard like the Greensboro Woolworth’s? The diffuse Internet group Anonymous would have you believe they are very alike. In the past week, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been launched against MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal in the wake...
by anickow | Dec 13, 2010 | Commentary |
Yesterday, Net Neutrality advocates were outraged at accusations levied by Level 3 Communications Inc. against cable giant Comcast. Level 3 Communications Inc., a provider of fiber-based communications services that supports Netflix Inc.’s movie streaming...
