November 10th 2008
Linden Labs makes the bulk of its proceeds by “selling land.” That is, people pay a monthly fee for server time to build space stations, office parks, night clubs or elf lairs they can call their own. And just as the global housing market has dropped, so has its virtual-world counterpart. The Silicon Alley Insider […]
November 7th 2008
Last week, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher delivered a landmark decision affirming the use of links in online speech in Canada. It was distinguished in its absolute sensibility. Vancouver businessmen Wayne Crookes, once an important federal Green Party of Canada official, sued Jon Newton, the operator of p2p.net, for linking to four articles […]
November 5th 2008
Dave Child is a web developer from Brighton, UK. He ran sites for Juno Records in London, and does online marketing. Along the way, he picked up the nickname Jack Daniels for the bottle he kept on his desk. So when he wanted to start a site to provide tech resources to other programmers, he registered […]
November 4th 2008
This is outside our normal “online law” topic, but if your practice deals with pharmaceutical issues you may be interested. I’m helping promote an educational webinar for pharmaceutical lawyers to discuss new FDA and USPTO regulations for drug naming. Please take a look and, if you like, plan to join us. The importance of drug […]
November 3rd 2008
In the last days of the longest and most expensive presidential campaign ever, both sides are using email aggressively. And why not? Email is cheap, campaigns are desperate, and they are exempt from CAN-SPAM regulations. That’s right. Political and religious speech are explicitly made exempt within CAN-SPAM’s regulations. When this law was framed, the exemption […]
November 2nd 2008
When is email definitely not spam? When it’s relevant and people really want it. Email service provider ExactTarget quotes me in their corporate blog today on the benefits of creating highly personalized email communications. Along with the “use benefits” I quantified for them, I’d also offer that personalizing communications often shifts the editorial voice to […]
November 1st 2008
I can hear it now in Britain: “Fingers? Fingers? Where are your fingers?” Within the next 18 months, every police officer in the UK will be equipped with portable fingerprint scanners, and will be able to carry out identity checks at the drop of a bobby’s helmet. The official (and implausible, given past history) claim […]
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