Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Reverse Content Theft: Reflections on Scoble-gate

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Personal Experiences, Punditry

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]



The DMCA on 7 Social Networking Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 23rd, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

For the next segment in our “DMCA Seven” feature, we will take a look at the DMCA policy on seven of the largest social networking sites including Myspace, Facebook, Bebo and more.
In each case we will evaluate their policy, look for weaknesses and, as necessary, recommend steps for improvement.
However, as you can see [...]