Counsel for Technology, Entertainment, and Business
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 [...]
The writers of Engadget Mobile, a technology weblog that reports on wireless phones and carriers, reported today that they have received a letter from Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile. In the letter, attorneys for Deutche Telekom ask that Engadget stop using the color magenta in the blog’s logo and headings because it threatens [...]
JuicyCampus is an Internet forum that encourages visitors to post gossip and rumors relating to people at any of a number of colleges and universities in the U.S. (currently 59). The operators of the website purport to offer complete anonymity to posters by way of IP address masking and other policies; they claim that [...]