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Watch Out Trolls, Your Menacing Comments Could Lead to Big Fines
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2009 7:44 AM / 24 Comments

Two former Yale University law students have settled their suit brought against some 30-plus anonymous commenters who posted

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After "Obama as Joker" Copyright Debacle, Flickr Changes its Takedown Policy
Written by Sarah Perez / September 3, 2009 7:39 AM / 11 Comments

When 20-year-old college student Firas Alkhateeb posted a picture of President Obama decked out in Joker facepaint to

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Loot: The Pirate Bay Goes Offline (For Now)
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 24, 2009 10:21 AM / 7 Comments

Black Internet, the Pirate Bay's largest bandwidth supplier, just shut down the notorious BitTorrent tracker after a court

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Study says Patents Hurt Innovation
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 2, 2009 10:00 AM / 11 Comments

According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our

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Google Sticks Up for Privacy, Disables Uploads on YouTube Korea
Written by Sarah Perez / April 13, 2009 5:50 AM / 15 Comments

Google has disabled both uploads of videos and comments on the Korean version of YouTube after the South

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Hasbro Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 16, 2008 11:38 AM / 7 Comments

Hasbro today announced that it has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of Scrabulous, the popular Facebook Scrabble

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Larry Lessig Leaves Stanford to Return to Harvard Law
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 12, 2008 3:02 PM

Digital copyright reformer turned high-profile anti-corruption activist Lawrence Lessig announced today that he's leaving Stanford and returning to

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EFF To Apple: Free Speech Isn't a DMCA Violation
Written by Sarah Perez / November 28, 2008 5:58 AM / 29 Comments

Apple has always been very protective over their proprietary software. The company doesn't want anything but iTunes to

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ProIP Act Signed Into Law - White House Gets Copyright Czar
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 14, 2008 12:03 PM

On Monday, President Bush signed the controversial ProIP bill into law, which will create a 'copyright czar' position

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Law 2.0 News: Mumboe Uses Semantics To Pull Key Data From Contracts
Written by Sarah Perez / October 1, 2008 6:40 AM / 2 Comments

Mumboe isn't just another enterprise collaboration suite. Instead, they focus on doing one thing and doing it well:

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Judge Declares Mistrial in RIAA Case
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 25, 2008 9:41 AM / 2 Comments

Most cases in which the RIAA accuses somebody of illegally sharing files never make it to court. Instead,

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Patents: GraphOn Sues Google for Connecting Databases to the Internet
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 18, 2008 10:01 AM / 8 Comments

GraphOn, which considers itself a "leading worldwide developer of server-based application publishing and Web-enabling software solutions," today announced

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Italian TV Company MediaSet Sues Google, YouTube for $800 Million
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 30, 2008 12:30 PM / 15 Comments

Once again, a major media company is suing Google because of alleged copyright violations by users on YouTube,

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Google's Street View Challenged in the UK
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 4, 2008 9:33 AM / 11 Comments

Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to

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Viacom Gets YouTube User Data
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 3, 2008 9:53 AM / 10 Comments

In the ongoing copyright litigation between Google and Viacom, a judge on the United States District Court for

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Content Is Becoming a Commodity
Written by Sarah Perez / April 14, 2008 9:43 AM / 51 Comments

Over the weekend, it seemed that everyone in the tech blogosphere contributed to the discussion around fractured blog

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Is Facebook Your "Permanent Record?"
Written by Sarah Perez / February 4, 2008 9:49 AM / 6 Comments

When Dawn and Bart Beye's 15-year-old daughter began showing signs of an eating disorder, they immediately took action.

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