I just posted the presentation slides from my keynote speech at the SociaLex 2010 conference, titled “Where (What) Is the Law of Social Media?”
The Law of Social Media (Part IV)
Category Archives: Technology Law
Sizing Up the FCC’s Controversial “National Broadband Plan”
Release of Release of the FCC’s “National Broadband Plan” marks the start of what is likely to be a long and hotly debated implementation process, as the plan pits the interests of different industry segments against one other and tests the limits of the FCC’s regulatory authority.
Nothing’s “Fundamental”
In the United States, our political system does not even make food, shelter and clothing fundamental citizen (let alone human) rights. So where does anyone get off suggesting Congress or the FCC should declare that the Internet is something more important than the reality of basic human needs?
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.”
Democracy In Secret Is Revolting
It is hard to understand how “conference reports” from Congress on pending legislation can have fallen from 200 per year to just 11 over the past three decades. But it indicates, sadly, that laws in America are increasingly being made in back rooms, not the public forums our system of politics has traditionally used.
No Longer a Golden Ticket
A J.D. degree is not worth what it once was as the legal industry wrestles with unprecedented business changes.
@glennm Nominated for a 2010 Shorty Award
Hey, it’s hardly an Oscar or People’s Choice award, but this rocks!!
Windows For Hollywood
The marketplace is showing not that DVDs are being sold OR rented “too early,” rather that technological convergence is making more and more options available to consumers, so building a library of physical DVDs is relatively unimportant, and certainly no longer a priority.
Pulse of a Presidency
It’s not a good political sign at all that liberals seem to be departing the president in droves. The more things “change,” the more it appears politicians give us more of the same.