When I worked at Apple the number one thing people would call or come into the store complaining about was how their screen on their iPhone was broken and how their hard drive crashed and they thought they’d lost all their music! I don’t have a solution for a broken iPhone screen, but I do [...]

How Lawyers View Death Death is always a morbid topic, but we’re mortal beings and it’s better to discuss this topic sooner rather than later. As law students we are quite detached from death because we are trained to think of death in legal terms infused with logic and exempt from pathos. In law school, [...]

According to BoingBoing.net, the internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says: That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like [...]

There I was enjoying my Monday afternoon when I received the following email: a form has been submitted on October 19, 2009, via: http://socialmedialawstudent.com/contact/ [IP [Redacted]] Contact-Form Contact Your Name Micah Email [redacted] Website http:// Message Hi, My name is Micah and I am interested in doing a guest post for your blog. I have [...]

Yesterday, October 12, 2009, WordPress released an exciting announcement about new developments for its users. WordPress is a popular blogging service that allows users two options: to host a template blog with WordPress.com or use individual programming skills to take advantage of the WordPress platform and host the blog elsewhere. Many legal bloggers use the [...]

Ever seen this image? Does it make you sad? It makes me sad too. Unfortunately, we’re probably going to be seeing a lot more of it very soon. Three weeks ago Veoh, an online video site similar to YouTube, won a suit against Universal Music claiming they had no actual knowledge that users of their [...]

The Example Case For whatever reason, Hollywood and the Music Industry just love to tell us how we should all live our lives. Britney Spears practiced Kabbalah, then she got a tattoo? Jessica Simpson waited until marriage, now she’s divorced and has lots of boyfriends? Oh, I could go on and on.  It’s one thing [...]

A lot of people don’t know that Google Images has some pretty cool advanced search options. One of which is the ability to search for images labeled for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification and commercial reuse with modification. I made this super quick tutorial to help bloggers, content creators, YouTube directors, etc. who are [...]

I’m a new aggregator, RSS feed reader junkie. I cannot get enough of the stuff I love. So today when Google quietly announced Google Fast Flip – I was a bit skeptical. In reality, it’s really amazing! Here’s what Google has said: “Today we’re adding a new experiment to Google Labs: Google Fast Flip, accessible [...]

Why Create? A mentor of mine once said, “Anyone can criticize a theory, it takes a true mind to find a solution for it’s failures.” When I first started researching the Creative Commons and one of its creators and greatest advocates Lawrence Lessig, the Copyright and Trademark student in me was very critical. I even [...]