It might be just as important not to be a jerk about it. How badly does a patentee have to anger the trial judge before it is sanctioned for bad faith litigation? Apparently, the patent-holding company Eon-Net managed to cross that line by (1) failing to investigate...
Part 1: Introduction: Will Consumers Ever Get What they Want? As many you already know (from Brandon Gee’s good article in The Tennesseean), a group of local songwriters have recently sued the operator of Grooveshark for copyright infringement. (You may view the...
How a Switch in Time Saved 23,322 John Does (Their Identities, for Now, at Least) In a series of posts a couple of weeks ago, I discussed an important decision out of the West Coast case* regarding anonymous internet speech. In that decision, U.S. Judge...
You Might Need to Be a Jedi to Separate Form from Function in a 3D Object How a Small Difference Between British and US Copyright Law Made a Big Difference There’s been a good deal of buzz on some of geekier websites that I frequent about this decision.* At first, it...
We Control the Web More than the Web Controls Us I tweeted a little while ago about The Economist’s review of Eli Pariser’s, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. Pariser is a pretty big deal–definitely one of thought leaders about the...
