I was honored to be asked to participate on the excellent Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on the topic of the recent stipulation entered into between Viacom and YouTube (Google) over user data that the Judge in that case ordered to be turned over to Viacom. My fellow guest was Lauren Gelman, the Executive Director of…
Top level domain expansion coming in 2009
ICANN has today approved an expansion of the top level Internet domains from the familiar ones (.com, .net, .org, etc) to an unlimited array of choices. All that will be required is a showing of technical ability to manage the requested domains. Details are currently sketchy regarding the application process, it appears that ICANN has…
Quick Link – Protecting your identity online
Hat tip to BeSpacific for the link to this article posted at PC World by Rosemark Haworth entitled “A Guide to Protecting Your Identity Online.” Among the tips include: – Letting people within your networks search your profile in Facebook may not be such a good idea. – Know who your friends are, and know…
YouTomb: A Study of Copyright Infringement on YouTube
Be sure to check out YouTomb, a research project of MIT Free Culture. It monitors YouTube for videos that are taken down pursuant to DMCA takedown notices. The site shows a screenshot of the video and information about the takedown. You can sort by the entity providing the notice, for example you can see all…
The future of DRM
Over lunch today, I had a nice chat with a fellow lawyer about digital rights management (DRM), among other topics. Then, later on, I came across this nice article from The Guardian entitled “How Apple is Changing DRM.” DRM is a way for copyright owners to get around the rights the purchaser of a copy…
Jonathan Zittrain’s new book is out
I am excitedly planning to read Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it. It’s out in a free Creative Commons licensed version, linked above, as well as one you can buy through places like Amazon. If you don’t recognize Jonathan’s name, you haven’t been following Internet legal issues…
Interesting presentation on Cybercrime
Here’s a link to Jonathan Frieden’s post entitled “Defending a Criminal Case in a Cyber World” where he posts the outline of his recent talk on the subject. If you follow my blog regularly I’m sure this will be of interest to you.
Slides from Copyright presentation
Here are my slides from the presentation I gave on April 1, 2008 at the Chicago Bar Association as part of the Internet Intellectual Property Issues for Small Businesses seminar. My presentation is entitled “Copyright Issues for Small Businesses.” Also presenting were Gina Durham and Paul McGrady.
Is this the day the world changed?
The results of the FCC’s wireless spectrum auction are of particular interest to more than just people in the telecom industry, as it will significantly impact how people access the Internet for years to come. It’s no big surprise that Verizon is the big winner, but I especially enjoyed reading Susan Crawford’s analysis of the…
Techshow 2008 – Day 2 – In Progress update
Since my last post, yesterday I attended the end of the Day 1 sessions and the evening Techshow After Dark event. Today, I attended sessions on e-discovery, disaster planning, using Internet-based collaboration tools, and computer forensics. The last one was fun, Craig Ball was looking for a volunteer for someone to give him a USB…