by ghans | Nov 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
The New York Times reported Wednesday that a man arrested in connection with a robbery got the charges against him dropped by proving that a status updated was posted to his Facebook account at the time. Rodney Bradford, 19, hired a criminal defense attorney who...
by ghans | Nov 7, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
One of the most prominent copyright/fair use cases over the last year has been artist Shepard Fairey’s dispute with the Associated Press (AP) over his famous poster of now-President Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. The poster, which featured a...
by Nick Misek | Oct 19, 2009 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
In other government regulation of the internet news, the FCC is preparing to vote this month on two new net neutrality principles that would prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking lawful content transfer, and would require the ISPs to disclose their...
by Ashley Tan | Oct 8, 2009 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
ICANN took a giant step towards true internationalization last week when it signed a new agreement with the U.S. government that explicitly envisions a transition into privatization of the organization. Granted, the new agreement still gives the U.S. Department of...
by Daniel Warsh | Sep 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Law firms have empirically been a pretty conservative group, and they are not usually known for embracing technological fads very quickly, if at all. This is why it is all the more surprising that Bloomberg reported yesterday that social networking sites, including...
by Ashley Tan | Sep 4, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The New York Times reported today that Amazon has changed its mind yet again about deleting Kindle copies of Orwell works, due to it lacking the rights to them. Amazon is now offering affected customers a free upload of a different, legally authorized...
