Retailers are beginning in earnest to deploy technologies marrying the best aspects of online e-commerce with shopping malls and physical stores.
Retailers Battle Back Against Technological Disruption
Yearly Archives: 2013
OTT Disruption: Is the “Rockefeller Bill” the Answer?
Like it or not, Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s new bill asks the right questions about online streaming television competition.
Future Markets, Nascent Markets and Competitive Predictions
Making a predictive judgment about future competition in an existing market is quite different from predicting that in the future new markets will emerge.
Disrupting the Legal Industry
While “tradition” is a gating factor in the ongoing transformation of the legal industry, in the post-Great Recession legal market of 2013, technology and changing values are rapidly disrupting traditional legal services. This is an exciting moment for legal innovators.
Opening Pandora’s Box: Copyright and Antitrust
Pandora’s antitrust lawsuit against ASCAP is a leading-edge dispute, scheduled for trial by year-end, that may help catalyze a new approach to the old question of whether — and if so to what extent — owners of copyrighted digital content are permitted to refuse to deal with competing distribution channels on dramatically different commercial terms.
More On Apple & Private Antitrust
The Ninth Circuit confirmed my prediction by tossing one of the private antitrust class actions against Apple, which had challenged the lawfulness of the proprietary DRM technology Apple initially used for downloadable digital music.
Friends With Benefits (How Privacy Law Evolves for Social Media)
Like most legal subjects dealing with technology, copyright law is lagging behind the fast-moving and disruptive changes wrought by social media to old legal rules for determining rights to Internet content. Things may at last be getting a bit more settled.
Social Media and Copyright Law In Conflict
In the continuing conflict between social media and copyright law, only time will tell. Once again, disruptive technology is caught in the middle.
Want A Tesla? You Can’t Buy One Here
Tesla is going to have to slog through a long and extremely expensive 50-state battle against archaic dealer-protection laws to implement its business model. Wish them luck.
Foundem Has Lost It
In the ongoing saga of governmental antitrust investigations of Google, recent weeks have witnessed a new level of rhetoric and disingenuous use of the regulatory process to handicap, rather than promote, competition and innovation. The current case in point relates once again to search neutrality, but this time complaining rivals remarkably object to getting exactly what they’ve asked for over many years.