Stories from the Week that Was – 5/27/12-6/2/12

03 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Bloggers, Branding, Copyright, Litigation, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Cookies, DHS, FTC, Google, MySpace, NLRB

China tightens grip on social media with new rules

TV Networks Say You’re Breaking The Law When You Skip Commercials

Germany sets new solar power record, institute says

Got Compliance? The EU Cookie Law & What You Need to Do

Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube

Target on your cyber back: DHS has a list of words deemed ‘suspicious’

Man sues to have ‘Google’ declared a generic word

Privacy practices: how the FTC MySpace settlement affects your business

2012 Logo Trends

Google Obliges Website Copyright Takedown Requests 97% of the Time

NLRB Issues Third Social Media Report

From David Elliott’s Complaint for Cancellation of Trademark and Declaratory Relief:

“3. The term “GOOGLE” is, or has become, a generic term universally used to describe the action of internet searching with any search engine, which cannot serve as a trademark to the exclusion of others.”

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Stories from the Week that Was – 5/6/12-5/12/12

13 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Copyright, Defamation, Federal Initiatives, Intellectual Property, Legislation, Privacy, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments, Trademark

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Facebook, Grooveshark, NDAA, Opportunity, Twitter

A mid-week election saw Richard Mourdock topple long-standing Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Has anybody bothered to ask Mourdock or (Democrat rival) Joe Donnelly’s thoughts on legislation like CISPA and SNOPA? Not this week, when all the talk was about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and President Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage.

Why the New gTLDs Don’t Matter

Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules

Property rights in the cloud: Your data or theirs?

Twitter Defends User In Court Over Occupy Tweets

Think That Email Isn’t a Contract? Think Again

Facebook bans Grooveshark over copyright complaint

How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?

Mars Rover Opportunity Rolling Again After Winter Break

New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers

“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg

Stories from the Week that Was – 4/29/12-5/5/12

06 Sunday May 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Copyright, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Social Media, Stories from the Week that Was

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BitTorrent, CISPA, SNOPA, Twitter

Stories from the Week that Was – 4/29/12-5/5/12

Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) Introduced To Protect Users From Having To Divulge Personal Info

Why Is a Patent Troll in Luxembourg Suing U.S. Public Transit Agencies?

CISPA: Next Steps

U.S. Copyright Office Seeks to Raise Rates

Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate)

Feds held seized website Dajaz1.com for a year without proof of copyright infringement

“My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

Stories from the Week that Was – 4/1/12-4/7/12

07 Saturday Apr 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Artists, Copyright, Federal Initiatives, Legislation, Stories from the Week that Was, Tech Developments

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Apple, JOBS Act

Stories from the Week that Was – 4/1/12-4/7/12

Mac Flashback Trojan: Find Out If You’re One of the 600,000 Infected

JOBS Act To Jumpstart The Job Market

Collector Sues William Eggleston Over New Prints of Old Photos

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Google Announce Partnership

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso