Is Lamar Smith going to send himself to jail?
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BBC NewsCookie law: websites must seek consent from this weekendBBC NewsBy Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Friday marks the last working day for UK businesses to prepare their websites for a new law governing the use of cookies.
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The folks at On the Media point us to a truly hilarious imagining by Tom Scott of what would happen after your physical body "died" in an age of both "The Singularity" and excessive copyright laws.
For those unfamiliar with...
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This week, the Supreme Court put to rest any doubt that when it invalidated a patent that added nothing novel to an otherwise unpatentable idea, back in March, it was talking about software patents, too. In that case, Mayo v. Prometheus, the Court reviewed the three types of inventions that cannot be patented: laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas and held that the patent at issue there—one covering diagnostic testing—represented nothing more than a law of nature, with “conventional steps, specified at a high level of generality,” appended.
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The Supreme Court unanimously struck down a broad patent on a method for …...
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Center to focus on electronic access to patent and trademark information and training. ... Who Owns Software Copyrights? Interviews · Birch Bayh, United .... USPTO Opens Patent & Trademark Resource Center at UNH Law ...
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Apple and several other technology companies have settled with patent troll SimpleAir to license four of the company's mobile patents. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Apple.
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@robin_parker this is one of the neater solutions I've seen… http://t.co/kUrcaMPd...
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Google today announced plans to disclose the number of copyright-related takedown requests it receives on a daily basis.
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Progress IllinoisSocial Media Password Bill May Soon Be Illinois LawProgress IllinoisThe proposed amendment to the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act would make it illegal for employers to ask potential and current employees for their social...
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By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice if the Federal Register (77 Fed. Reg. 28331) proposing another increase in patent fees.
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Gareth Crosskey, 21, wrote 'Justin Bieber sucks' on the teen star's Facebook page.
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I confront a newspaper editor for plagiarizing my work. Things get tense. Music: Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ Update: The video loo...
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Editor’s note: Leonid (“Lenny”) Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA.
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(05-25) 11:49 PDT Morristown, N.J. (AP) -- A woman who texted her boyfriend while he was driving cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding, seriously injuring a motorcycling couple, a judge ruled...
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Summary of Part One: Consumers, trained by content providers to think most entertainment can be enjoyed freely, no longer take copyright seriously as a legal or moral imperative. It's like a parking meter that's rarely checked.
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Ever wonder how many of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA?
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Justices wonder if online ad schemes are patentable inventions.
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Samsung will soon launch its Siri-style S Voice software on the Galaxy S III, but in the more distant future it could bring speech recognition technology.
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Tweet Few things get your attention like the threat of being sued, especially when you're a small company.
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Google today released a new picture of the millions of links it scrubs from its search results in response to requests from Microsoft, movie studios and other content owners.
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A Swiss-made chocolate bunny, wrapped in gold foil, cannot be registered as a trademark, the European Court of Justice court has ruled.
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Google says it removes 1.2 million search results each month as copyright holders request killing links to sites that violate their copyrights. (Google has removed more links to copyrighted material this month, than all of 2009...
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The decision in the long-running case came as vindication for Google in its bitter battle with Oracle over Android. Read this blog post by Josh Lowensohn on Internet & Media.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of a former graduate student who was sued by the recording industry for illegally downloading music, letting stand a $675,000 judgment against him for violation of copyright laws.
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Social Media Seeks Control Through TOS Enforcement So far, social media companies have only sought to squash undesirable behavior on their platforms from third party commercial entities, such as spammers or those seeking password sharing, but in...
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