July 21st 2008
Prof. Michael Scott of Southwestern Law School has started four microblogs that send out breaking headlines in law news categories. You can subscribe to these via RSS, or use Twitter to get links as Professor Scott finds them. Check out InternetLaw, CopyrightLaw, PrivacyLaw, and LawProf, his personal tweets. I narrowly escaped a Twitter invervention, aimed […]
July 21st 2008
2008 has had a string of huge spam convictions. Sanford Wallace and crew gathered $230 million in fines, while “Spam King” Robert Soloway faces extended jail time. Now Adam Vitale will receive 30 months in prison and $183,000 due in restitution to AOL for a week of spamming back in 2005. Yes, the wheels of justice grind slowly, […]
July 20th 2008
About twenty years ago. I was fortunate to study the social psychology theory of Lay Epistemology with a student of its developer, Arie Kruglanski. Thirty or so social media experts joined me for a discussion at Podcamp, taking place at Harvard Medical School, to introduce this remarkably durable theory as one way to assess and plan influential marketing communications. […]
July 19th 2008
I’m a believer that innovation is driven by communities. The friendships we make with smart creative people can do more to drive our success in business and life than any new technology or tactic. Wow, this is such a theme in my life, and I bet yours too. Read about it as it happens So, […]
July 19th 2008
Do you remember last month’s post about the toy designer who wiped his laptop with Evidence Eliminator before providing it for discovery? That didn’t help enough. The jury’s back; Mattel won. MGA Entertainment, the maker of the Bratz, is liable for copyright infringement and contract interference. Now the penalty phase of the trial begins. The […]
July 18th 2008
American Airlines has privately settled its trademark suit with Google. Case number 4:07-cv-00487, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, is history. Both companies are tight-lipped about the confidential settlement. The timing of this settlement is so close to the related Tiffany v. eBay trademark ruling that it suggests a causative […]
July 18th 2008
Terry Childs was a system administrator for the city of San Francisco’s high-speed network. According to reports, last week the disgruntled employee created a super password for the network and removed his follow administrators, effectively making himself the only person who can maintain the network. Now officials are stuck, since Mr. Childs is locked up […]
July 18th 2008
Judge Richard Sullivan’s ruling against Tiffany’s varied claims of trademark infringement is fairly absolute. When word of the ruling reached the MIT Media Lab where I was speaking this week, the audience there was delighted. The unambiguous ruling for the right of efficient commercial speech and immunization for intermediaries who take good-faith precautions and adhere to DMCA […]
July 17th 2008
You have about a 1 in 5,000 chance of hitting a hole in one in golf. That’s not a very good chance, especially when we’re talking about my game. But that’s about the same odds as being on the US terror list. From an AFP article: The Center “had over 700,000 names in its database […]
July 16th 2008
The Iranian parliament is moving toward enforcing the death penalty as a punishment for blogging that encourages “corruption, prostitution or apostasy.” As I wrote last month, there are about 40 bloggers imprisoned worldwide. Blogs are filtered, and bloggers are deterred, but this is the first law that would try to eliminate bloggers altogether. Iranian President […]
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