February 7th 2008
This week, ALM, publisher of 33 professional magazines including The American Lawyer, and Courtroom View Network (CVN), a legal-news video service, announced CourtroomLive.com. The service will allow legal professionals to watch current trials as they happen, and distribute the feeds securely to clients or colleagues. Imagine how firms could create shadow juries to watch actual […]
February 5th 2008
Virtual worlds are emerging as a popular new legal topic. They create a host of interesting opportunities as tools for legal practice, and at the same time are a medium that needs to be reconciled to laws from the physical world. The apparatus of the law is increasingly present in Second Life : You Can […]
February 4th 2008
Effective February 11th, Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less than five days old. This single move will force a dramatic reduction in the Internet scheme known as domain kiting. Industry experts attribute over 90% of all current domain registrations to kiting performed by a group of rogue registrants, so this is […]
February 1st 2008
Today, Microsoft confirmed what years of speculation predicted, they will attempt to buy Yahoo. While this is an obvious move from a business sense, there are formidable regulatory hurdles ahead. Yet, sources as objective as Yahoo News and MSNBC minimize the risk of regulatory review. To be fair, so does most of the US media which echos them. […]
January 31st 2008
Do hard cases make bad laws? The law continues to grapple with the tragedy of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after allegedly being harassed on MySpace by the parent of a friend posing as a teenage boy. Some localities have passed constitutionally questionable ordinances to make online conduct by an adult that […]
January 29th 2008
There’s a lot to be happy about in recent moves by the recording industry to experimentally make music available on an ad-supported “free” basis. Here are three examples of emerging models meeting with dramatically different levels of success.
January 23rd 2008
Are you ready for the online equivalent of vigilantes? It seems that AT&T and other ISPs want to filter net traffic to “stop the transfer of copyrighted material.” That’s what the New York Times’s Bits blog says an AT&T vice president suggested during a panel discussion about digital piracy at the recent Consumer Electronics Show […]
January 15th 2008
In a court brief filed by RIAA counsel Ira Schwartz in a case involving Jeffrey Howell of Scottsdale, AZ, the RIAA claims that any copying of CDs is “unauthorized.” According to an article in the Washington Post: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection […]
January 14th 2008
I’m excited to be speaking at Marketing Sherpa’s Email Summit, where I’ll discuss the benefits of personalizing B2B email marketing with photos. Do photos change behavior? I have results that suggest they do, sometimes dramatically. In fact, the difference between “with photo” and “without photo” versions persists, even as other improvements are made to campaigns. […]
December 25th 2007
The RIAA sank to a new all-time low by producing a two-minute video press release intended for local TV stations to broadcast about copyright infringement during the holiday season. A copy of the poorly made video may be found here. It matches a press release by the RIAA released on December 13, 2007. Among the […]
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