by sandc | Nov 3, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Back in August, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) garnered national attention when it shut down cell phone service to limit a political protest over the shooting death of a homeless man by BART police. BART released a statement the following day stating that “a civil...
by anickow | Oct 12, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
My first semester of law school, our torts professor explained to the class that we were training for a career in which we would essentially become nothing more than very expensive transaction costs. I’m pretty sure her intention with this comment was to cut short a...
by bfin | Oct 7, 2011 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Borders has gained final court approval for its $13.9 million intellectual property sale to former competitor Barnes & Noble. Borders was once the second-largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble. So after being the...
by salari | Oct 7, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology
In December 2010, the FCC announced its new ‘net neutrality’ rules, in efforts to promote “freedom and openness” of the Internet and to prevent service providers from limiting which Internet sites and services their customers can access and...
by kristliu | Sep 28, 2011 | Cases, Legal/Tech News
R&B hit artist Usher is currently the subject of a copyright infringement suit. Last year, songwriter Ernest Lee Straughter filed suit in the Central District of California alleging that Usher’s number one hit song “Burn,” released in July 2004,...
by Kimberly Gelfand | Sep 17, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
The often-overlooked Sprint made two majors moves this week to take center stage in the “battle of the telecoms.” Sprint began the week by filing a suit on behalf of “consumers and competition” against both AT&T and T-Mobile in response to the...
