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Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls
Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls - ReadWriteWeb: The study also found that users will go to great lengths to route around corporate networks and often use tools like Gbridge, encrypted tunneling applications, and various private and public proxy services to circumvent security protocols, corporate firewalls and filtering mechanisms. Companies are […]
May 2009 / 2 min.
Reusable Example Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
So you’ve decided your new Web site needs a privacy policy or terms of service. Why? Perhaps you are collecting personal information, or providing a service that visitors may come to depend on. (Or maybe you’re just a lawyer and obsessively use disclaimers, waivers, and contracts throughout your daily life. If you make your co-rec […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Rosetta Stone Files for an IPO
Image via Wikipedia Marketplace on NPR: Will this IPO translate into turnaround?: Rosetta Stone, the language software maker, is one of the few companies to file an IPO this year. With a strong market debut, will other companies follow suit? This has to be the first IPO I’ve heard about in a very long time. […]
April 2009 / 1 min.
Jobs for new lawyers are hard to come by
Image via Wikipedia It’s no secret that the job market is in shambles, and the legal job market is really no exception. It should come as no surprise that the market is particularly tough for new graduates, people who a year or two ago could often expect - or were led to expect - to […]
April 2009 / 3 min.
Consumers and Copyright: Thoughts about reforming the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is much maligned, but, I think, not fully understood by very many people. Today, a visitor to our Software Law class from Microsoft presented a very good explanation of the 1998 law. He explained some aspects that are not spoken about too much in the general tech community, like […]
April 2009 / 4 min.
Electronic texts and rent-seeking publishers
Frightful Kindle | TPM: Finally, only a few months ago, I purged a decent chunk of my collection. And most are now in storage. But in our living room we have two big inset shelves where I keep all the books I feel like I need or want ready at hand. And last night, sitting […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing
’ Image via Wikipedia Patent Baristas >> Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing: Indias pharmaceutical industry caters to about 30% of the world’s generic requirements. Despite its tremendous volume, it has been facing difficult times recently, with the WHO stance on counterfeit drugs, as well as seizure of Indian generic shipments in the EU. There is […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords - Law Blog - WSJ: In an opinion penned by Judge Pierre Leval, a three-judge panel ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that trigger ads. Click here for the Recorder story. An interesting development. Basically, Google was selling […]
April 2009 / 1 min.
Amazon retreats on Kindle’s text-to-speech issue
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Amazon retreats on Kindle’s text-to-speech issue | Digital Media - CNET News: Apparently, Amazon won’t fight the publishing industry on the issue of whether the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech function violates copyright. The retailer, which makes the popular Kindle electronic-book reader, announced late Friday that the company is modifying systems […]
February 2009 / 1 min.
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon’s Kindle 2
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon’s Kindle 2 | Threat Level from Wired.com: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” But… Wendy Seltzer, a legal scholar at the Berkman Center for Internet & […]
February 2009 / 2 min.