This is a presentation I made in June 2011 at the 140 Characters Conference in New York focusing on copyright law and content ownership in social media.
The Law of Social Media (Part V)
Category Archives: Intellectual Property
Patent Wars and Blackmail in Silicon Valley
With reality television all the rage, viewers may wonder why there’s been no reality series about the inbred high-tech ecosystem of Silicon Valley. There should be, because the reality of how our technology bastion really competes today — namely by patent litigation and acquisitions — is astonishing.
Android, Patent Wars and Antitrust
The battle to beat Google’s Android mobile phone OS is quickly turning into a legal bonanza. But why are three horizontal competitors being allowed to collaborate and cooperate and join hands together, rather than competing against each other?
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.
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.
#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 […]
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.
Remastered Masters
It is a little odd that although The Beatles pioneered so many innovative recoding techniques in the analog realm, their music is still not yet available on remastered digital CDs.