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The Apple rumor sites are reporting that Apple has begun including the following language at the bottom of iPhone App Store rejection letters:
The information contained in this message is under non-disclosure.
I’d love to hear one of Apple’s attorneys explain what the company’s damages would be if a developer were to breach this.
That aside, there’s a bigger [...]
Angelo DiNardi writes that he developed an alternative email client for the iPhone called “MailWrangler” only to have it rejected by Apple’s App Store because it “duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion.”
I wonder whether an iPhone-specific version of the [...]
Here are some of the issues I’m following this week:
A company named Psystar made headlines yesterday by offering to sell low-cost computers that are pre-loaded with the retail version of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the next-generation operating system that Apple includes on new Macs and sells at retail as an upgrade for other Macs. The problem [...]
The Internet has created interesting copyright law questions for many different kinds of media, from the photographs in Kelly v. Arriba Soft to the audio recordings in A&M Records v. Napster. Typically these cases turn on whether the defendant–typically the trailblazing operator of some new Internet-based service–has distributed the plaintiff’s copyrighted material without authorization.
As Kelly illustrated, web [...]
Here’s a summary of the stories I’ve been following this week:
Elektra v. Barker and London-Sire v. Doe: Can merely “making available” a file on a P2P network constitute copyright infringement, or does infringement require that a plaintiff prove that the file was actually downloaded by a third party? Maybe not. Coincidentally, I’m currently working on a [...]