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Help: My Hard Drive Died. How Can I Legally Get My Music Back!?

Dec 9th, 2009 | By Jessica Dobias | Category: Copyright, Featured, Lead Article

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 know [...]



Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks – Goes Viral

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Privacy, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 Flickr [...]



How to Spot a Fake Blogger

Oct 21st, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Blogging, Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Practice Management, Privacy, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 a post called The best Iphone apps for Lawyers and was [...]



YouTube v. Viacom: What This Means for User Generated Content

Oct 7th, 2009 | By Jessica Dobias | Category: Blogging, Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Social Media, Web 2.0, YouTube

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 Consequences of Being a Legally Clueless Celebrity Online

Sep 28th, 2009 | By Jessica Dobias | Category: Blogging, Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 for [...]



A Legal Perspective: Google Fast Flip

Sep 15th, 2009 | By Jessica Dobias | Category: Copyright, Featured, Lead Article, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 at fastflip.googlelabs.com. [...]