Judges are by institution isolated and by tradition older than the general population. Increasingly, however, they are called upon to rule on technologies with which they have no experience at all.
A Court of Technophobes?
Category Archives: Social Media
The Law of Social Media (Part IV)
I just posted the presentation slides from my keynote speech at the SociaLex 2010 conference, titled “Where (What) Is the Law of Social Media?”
Federal Courts Meet Social Media Challenge
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.
Social Media Make the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court, for the first time, took note of social media today, observing that “soon … it may be that Internet sources, such as blogs and social networking Web sites, will provide citizens with significant information about political candidates and issues.”
@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.
My “Twitterview” on 22 Tweets
Today we’re tweeting with @glennm, biglaw antitrust / telecom / technology litigator turned Web 2.0 legal guru.
#140conf Panel on Social Media Law & Policy
This is a video clip from the panel on Law and Policy for Social Media which I moderated at last week’s 140 Characters Conference in Los Angeles.
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 […]