Cutting-Edge Legal Counsel for Technology, Entertainment, and Business
“Video game law” emerges as a specialty. Facebook and eBay test the limits of Section 230. Forum selection clauses become more important in Internet legal documents. Myspace tries to turn piracy into profit with a new technology. A man claims that an emoticon turned him into a pedophile against his will. Hear Professor Michael Scott [...]
This past Thursday I gave a talk called “From Pages to Platforms” about the ways that Web 2.0 has affected Internet Law. Here it is in webcast form.
I recommend downloading (instead of allowing it to play in the browser) for a full-screen picture.
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 [...]
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 [...]
