Rick will be presenting on cloud computing and internet privacy at TennBarU’s Scary Things in Intellectual Property, an all-day CLE course on April 13. The other presenters are pretty much an all-star cast of Nashville legal thinkers: Wayne Beavers, Casey Del...
Part 2 (of 2): Welcome Nice Pinterest Users to the Bizarro World of Copyright and the Internet! Last time, we took stock of the recent kerfuffle about Pinterest, copyright and Pinterest’s Terms of Use (“TOU”), and we even looked at those horrifying, normal TOU. In...
Part 1 (of 2): Teacup in a Tempest So, here I was all ready to write a post about how everyone should just stop freaking out about Pinterest’s terms of use (“TOU”), when someone tweeted this excellent piece from the Copyright Librarian (updated here) that basically...
Part 3: Will Willfulness Ride to the Rescue? In the first part of this three-part series, we tried to put the MU Indictment into a practical context. Last time, we started to look at the substance of the legal issues, starting with the government’s case. We concluded...
Part 2: The Government’s Unclear Path to Conviction Last time, I tried to give some practical perspective to the Megaupload Indictment. It was, at the same time, business as usual and completely extraordinary. I predicted (we’ll see how accurately) that MU will...
