Seven Things to Keep in Mind… Last time, we looked at what customers want from online music services. To help you understand how copyright law governs online digital content (such as music files), we thought we’d provide a 40,000-feet overview of copyright law,...
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...
