March 4th 2008
Is the RIAA only about the money, and not the ethical defense of intellectual property rights of artists? It seems the artists the RIAA supposedly represents have seen little or no money as a result of copyright infringement settlements over the years from major entities like Napster and Kazaa. Those settlements are in the neighborhood […]
March 3rd 2008
What is CAN-SPAM? The name CAN-SPAM is an acronym from the original bill’s full name: Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing Act of 2003. Its purpose was to set the first national standards for sending commercial e-mail, and to limit the bulk sending of unsolicited email. The law requires the Federal Trade Commission […]
March 1st 2008
Judge Jeffrey White has reversed his decision requiring the site’s domain registrar to direct traffic away from the site’s US domain. Users quickly discovered the site maintains mirror sites around the world, so the court order likely only increased the site’s traffic. The judge issued an order to restore the domain yesterday at 5pm. Judge White […]
March 1st 2008
It was fantastic being with over 800 email marketers in Miami last week. They’ve posted some kind words on my talk about B2B email (see point #9 of their event wrap-up). We endured several hours of Florida’s massive power blackout, which resulted in intimate presentations in dim rooms, and the occasional impulse to gather around battery […]
February 29th 2008
The FCC’s recent hearing in Cambridge on broadband network management practices had a group of unusual participants. Comcast admitted to paying people from the street who did not know about the hearing to fill the auditorium’s seats. They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon […]
February 28th 2008
On February 13, 2008, in Connecticut copyright case Atlantic vs. Brennan, the court rejected the RIAA’s request for a default judgment on the grounds of its theory that simply making available copyrighted music that might be illegally copied by some other party is, in fact, infringement. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton ruled that such a […]
February 27th 2008
FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, acknowledged that broadband network operators have a legitimate need to manage the data flowing over their networks. But he said that “does not mean that they can arbitrarily block access to particular applications or services.” So, what is “reasonable” and what is “arbitrary”? That was the question in Cambridge on Monday. […]
February 25th 2008
Corynne McSherry and Eric Goldman have posted a joint warning about proposals being considered by the the Trademark Litigation subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s IP Section. Several expert sources (quoted below) have already written about this, and I add some thoughts to theirs after that.
February 23rd 2008
When you type a phrase like “Ford models” into a search engine, you aren’t necessarily searching for the Ford Motor Company. You may be searching for information from news sources to learn if Ford tires still catch fire. If that were the case, you’d probably want an disinterested analysis from outside the company. Or you […]
February 22nd 2008
On Monday, February 25, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School will host a Federal Communications Commission en banc hearing on broadband network management practices, and a public post-panel discussion and reception. The event will be webcast live. Verizon’s Tom Tauke, who was featured in yesterday’s posting, is one of the […]
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