Posts Tagged ‘Law’

Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 45

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Podcast

It’s been another crazy week of copyright news and, as usual, Chris and I try to sum it all up in one short hour of humor, news and views.



How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Punditry

The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web.
Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover [...]



The Most Common Mistake in Plagiarism Fighting

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 10th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web.
Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of these [...]



Internet Archive Ruled Inadmissible

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 23rd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

A New York Federal judge has ruled that printouts from the Internet Archive are inadmissible as evidence in a court of law unless the party trying to enter it can produce “authenticating testimony from someone familiar with how the pages were created�.
The judge’s order officially struck the pages from the record and removed the printouts [...]