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The DMCA celebrates its tenth birthday; are we better off than we were ten years ago? Who is the real winner in the Google Book Search settlement? Can California’s legislature control violent video games? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast!
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Are search engines engaging in widespread copyright infringement? Can eBay sellers bring libel actions against buyers who leave negative feedback about them? What does the revised iPhone NDA mean for developers and the Internet in general? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast.
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It’s not easy being a search engine these days.
The job of a search engine is to organize information on the Web and present that information to users in a way that is meaningful and skimmable. Modern search engines like Google and Yahoo! work by scouring Web sites for information and then indexing the contents of [...]
Will DRM be the final nail in the coffin of PC gaming? How anonymous can the Internet be? Why won’t YouTube grant a full legal review of all DMCA takedown requests on election campaign videos? Will trademark owners be forced to monitor domain name registrations? Can libraries go digital? Can a record label infringe its [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]