Tara was interviewed by Joe Mont at Compliance Week for an article in this week’s issue entitled “Terms of Use Agreements Pose New Reputational Risks,” in the wake of the Zappos.com TOU debacle and Tara’s blog post about it. Tara and two other...
When History Really Just Commercial Nostalgia? Last week I wrote about a copyright lawsuit involving the Baltimore Ravens, and in so doing, managed also to mention the San Francisco 49ers*. They both won their respective games and will now meet in the Super Bowl. In...
There’s been some talk on this Martin Luther King day about the availability of the video of King’s immortal “I Have a Dream” Speech. The removal of the video from the Vimeo site has stirred enough outrage to launch another march on Washington. Or maybe even another...
A Case that Just Keeps Giving to Copyright Lawyers It’s been a long time since our last edition of the fast-paced game that’s sweeping the nation, Is It Fair Use? Yes, I’ve been busy, but the real reason is that there just haven’t been any...
You might recall Rick’s epic 6-part blog about the Oracle v. Google case and what it teaches about copyright protection in software. A formal (and condensed) version of those posts has been published by @Law in its Winter 2012–13 edition as an article:...
Great Expectations for $100K Are Nice, But You Should Still Put Them in the Contract I probably like Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code more than most lawyers, but even I have to recognize its limitations. Article 2 governs sales of goods, from candy bars to...
