It took a little bit of time, but the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has issued revised jury instructions, recommended for all federal cases, updated for today’s social media age.
Federal Courts Meet Social Media Challenge
Category Archives: Tech Policy
@glennm Nominated for a 2010 Shorty Award
Hey, it’s hardly an Oscar or People’s Choice award, but this rocks!!
Twitter & Privacy
Much of what occurs online, like blog posting, is intended to be an open declaration to the world, and law enforcement is within its rights to read and act on what is written.
The Law of Social Media (Part III)
Welcome to Web 2.0, corporate IP police! Your task in protecting against genericide has become an order of magnitude harder because social media is immediate, difficult to search and presents such massive volume of content that periodic review of even a portion of it is clearly impossible
The Law of Social Media (Part II)
[Part I of this series of essays can be found at this permalink]. 2. Who Owns User-Generated Content? Who owns user-generated content (UGC) posted to social media sites? This is but one of the many vexing issues presented by the emerging law of social media, albeit one of great interest to users, corporate subscribers and […]
An Update on the DMCA
It is the end for a creative, but futile, effort by RealNetworks to plead its way around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for yet another variant of DVD-ripping software.
Betting Against Technology
Don’t bet against technology. Increased efficiency in wireless data protocols trumps spectrum capacity all the time.
Turn it UP!
This is paternalistic regulation at its worse.
The VC Industry is At an Inflection Point
Many are speculating that 2009 represents a fundamental turning point for the venture capital industry.
Iran May Not Be Like Poland, the Philippines and Ukraine
Pat Oliphant’s editorial cartoon today captures the disconnect between global geopolitics and the people-powered “almost revolution” going on in Iran these days.