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...
by Jason C. Miller | Jun 26, 2009 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, MTTLR Journal |
You may think of robocalls as those annoying automated calls about warrantees that the FCC is cracking down on. But if you have a land line and regularly vote in elections, you probably receive political robocalls as well. These robocalls are subject to fewer...
