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Contracts
Newsflash: “ISPs Have Control Over Their Subscribers.” And the Point Is?
Talk about a slow news day. A recent article in USA Today discusses the so-called “fine print” in ISP contracts and then concludes that it doesn’t really matter anyway. This non-story highlights the fact that ISP contracts, which their company lawyers draft, give ISPs rights to read their subscribers’ e-mail, block their subscribers from accessing certain […]
Dell’s Shell Hell
I can’t help but get a little bit of personal satisfaction out of this story. It seems that Dell Computers was engaged in a large scale “shell” game or “bait and switch” scheme in New York. A New York judge recently found that Dell misled consumers repeatedly by engaging in “false and deceptive advertising” of its promotional […]
Tagged attorney general, consumer protection, deceptive, Dell, false advertising, unfair
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Kindling a Derivative Works Controversy
When I heard the Author’s Guild claim that Amazon’s new Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature violated an author’s copyright, all I could first think of was . . . good grief. And being a lawyer with a good stable of Yiddish terms, the phrases “oy vey” and “meshugenah” came to mind also. This nifty feature allows the Kindle to read the e-book’s […]
Tagged Amazon.com, contracts, copyright, derivative works, fair use, fixation, infringement, Kindle, licensing, litigation, originality, sound recording, translation
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In Defense of Facebook
You’ve probably heard by now about the change that Facebook made to its Terms-of-Service (“TOS”) policy last week regarding the company’s “perpetual use” of a user’s information even after the user terminates his/her Facebook account. It prompted an outcry, with many users threatening to quit the service. Facebook has now done a complete about-face and announced, for the time being at least, that the old TOS […]
Tagged copyright, Facebook, licensing, social networking, subpoena, terms of service, terms of use
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