In an attempt to rebut allegations that it allows copyright thieves to roam unmonitored throughout Beijing and the great steppes, China has announced that it will impose a copyright fee on internet cafes which allow customers to download and watch movies while enjoying their lattes. How China intends to monitor internet usage at the 140,000 [...]
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Factoids About the Google Books Settlement
June 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Copyright, Internet, Popular
For those of you who are confused about what Google actually hopes to accomplish by digitizing more than 12 million books, and what the implications are for copyright holders, the Open Book Alliance has published a very interesting analysis of the proposed Google Books Settlement, which attempts to parse rhetoric from reality. The article can [...]
Tattoo Nation
April 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Internet, Popular
For the last year I’ve come across tattoos in odd places. One day I’m walking to my favorite San Francisco coffee shop — Cafe Amici –and I bump into a group of teenagers. I look up and one of the boys is shaking a little tin cup and has a tattoo of a pink [...]
Who Owns Your Second Life?
March 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Copyright, Internet, Popular, Trademark
A few years ago Julian Dibbell wrote a book called Play Money — Or, How I Quit My Day Job And Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, which detailed the year he spent trying to win a bet with himself. The bet: that he could make more money by killing trolls and demons (or making armor) [...]
The Busy Executive’s Guide to Self-Defense (Against Hackers)
January 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Internet, Popular
In her new guide for corporate management, Enterprise Security for the Executive: Setting the Tone From The Top, Jennifer Bayuk, former head of information security for Bear Stearns, contends that assaults on corporate security over the Internet continue to put valuable corporate assets at risk, and offers guidance for measuring, managing and minimizing those risks. [...]
I am a commercial litigator and intellectual property lawyer in San Francisco. Although my practice encompasses a wide variety of business disputes, I have a particular fondness for, and am prone to wax philosophical on, the subjects of copyright and trademark infringement in music, literature, art, and film.
