Jim Dedman, posting from Abnormal Use, points us to Jim Dedman, posting from the North Carolina Law Blog, asking if emoticons can beat the hearsay rule: Carole Gailor of Raleigh, North Carolina recently spoke at a North Carolina Bar Association conference on the rules of evidence as applied to electronically generated information. [...] Ms. Gailor [...]
James Grimmelmann has published a paper on the whole Google Books saga. It’s called The Elephantine Google Books Settlement, and it’s available in PDF form now. He describes it thusly: It’s an attempt to boil down the settlement into a single clear concept that makes sense of the whole thing: the settlement used an opt-out [...]
Grooveshark’s being sued for $17 billion dollars by Vivendi/Universal/Sheinhardt Wig company for copyright infringement: In a copyright lawsuit filed today, Universal Music Group says it has obtained e-mails and other records that show Grooveshark’s leaders led an effort to post more than 100,000 pirated songs onto the music service. “[The business records of Escape Media [...]
My friend Joe Merante on a proposed modification to Creative Commons licensing, which would require downstream users of the licensed work to notify the author: While there are simple ways to find your work online, such as via search engine, Google Alert, monitored downloads via registration or otherwise, etc., the onus is still on the [...]