by Ryan Mott | Feb 2, 2011 | Legal/Tech News
At 5:34 PM EDT on January 27th, 2010, the Egyptian government turned off its own infrastructure in response to a series of violent protests criticizing President Mubarak’s de facto dictatorship. Mubarak appears to have ordered the Internet Service Providers (ISPs)...
by ghans | Jan 19, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The New York Times has an amusing article about Jeff Koons, the prominent artist whose use of pop culture imagery has made him somewhat of a successor to Andy Warhol in the contemporary art scene. Koons is accusing two businesses – a San Francisco bookstore and...
by ghans | Jan 18, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Tina Fey and the writers on NBC’s hit comedy 30 Rock have gotten a lot of comedic mileage out of the proposed NBC-Comcast (or NBC-Kabletown, in the show’s version) merger, but there hasn’t been a lot of laughter today as the Federal Communications...
by ghans | Jan 12, 2011 | Legal/Tech News
NPR News is reporting that Shepard Fairey, the prominent street artist and graphic designer behind the OBEY and HOPE posters, has settled with the Associated Press. The AP had sued Fairey, alleging that he had used without permission a photograph whose copyright was...
by ghans | Jan 12, 2011 | Legal/Tech News, Technology
The New York Times has a front page story today on the decline of mySpace, the once-popular social networking site that has now been outpaced by Facebook. As with other social networking sites, mySpace has struggled to maintain its popularity; a high-profile merger...
by kavouras | Dec 1, 2010 | Cases, Legal/Tech News
Worried about the current state of the legal market? Depressed about the paltry Cravath bonus scale for 2010? Terrified that your firm might be cutting back on some pricey perks? Or maybe you’re just concerned about high costs choking off access to the civil...
