Cutting-Edge Legal Counsel for Technology, Entertainment, and Business
This is a pilot for a new podcast on technology law that I’ll hopefully be recording each week along with Michael Scott. In each episode we’ll cover some of the most interesting topics of the week, identify trends, discuss new legislation, analyze recent cases, and end with our favorite talking point of the week. We [...]
Last Wednesday a federal judge declared a mistrial in Capitol v. Thomas and set aside the judgment for the plaintiffs when he found that the theory of “making available” may not have been sufficient to constitute infringement.1 The core of the RIAA’s position here is that Thomas infringed by merely offering to distribute copies of a work [...]
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 [...]