The Information Technology Law Blog and Podcast by Professor Michael Scott
“Video game law” emerges as a specialty. Facebook and eBay test the limits of Section 230. Forum selection clauses become more important in Internet legal documents. Myspace tries to turn piracy into profit with a new technology. A man claims that an emoticon turned him into a pedophile against his will. Hear Professor Michael Scott [...]
During the last week there were two articles – one on the Wall Street Journal and one in the Los Angeles Times – about law firm establishing “specialties” in videogame law — as if this was a new field.
The fact is lawyers have been “specializing” in videogame law since the 1980s. When I began working [...]
Over the past several years there have been a steady stream of stories about the record industry pursuing alleged song downloaders from P2P networks. While hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against those who have downloaded songs from the Internet, thousands of alleged downloaders have received “settlement letters,” which accuse them of copyright infringement and [...]
A new U.S. president prepares to take office… will his “change” include a new technology policy? French record labels gear up for a fight against open source media sharing software. A European fashion designer tries to enforce a copyright judgment in New York. The judge who shut down Napster proposes a sweeping copyright reform. Craigslist [...]
Last Thursday, Josh Kagan gave a talk on Web 2.0 law for my Internet & E-Commerce Law class here at Southwestern Law School. Josh covered several interesting topics, including copyleft licenses, DMCA takedown abuse, and blogger issues. This is a webcast of that talk.
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Several weeks ago now, Google announced the settlement of a copyright infringement case filed against it by a group of American publishers who objected to the Google Book Search project. (I recently wrote about the settlement here.) The Google Book Search project has the goal of digitizing virtually every book ever published, and making that [...]
The following Q&A materials were developed for an internal newsletter at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles. I thought it might be of interest to law students wanting to learn more about the program, and law professor who have students that might be interested in the program. Please feel free to link to this page, or [...]
The DMCA celebrates its tenth birthday; are we better off than we were ten years ago? Who is the real winner in the Google Book Search settlement? Can California’s legislature control violent video games? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast!
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Man cannot live by legal writing alone. As such, I have decided to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. I can’t start until midnight tonight, and I must complete the novel by the end of November. 50,000 words in 30 days. It won’t be pretty, but should be fun.
The genre will be science fiction, [...]
I have written about my law school’s evolving summer program in London (starting in 2009) on International Information Technology Law several time over the last year. (See here and here.) There have been a few wrinkles that had to be ironed out, but I am pleased to announce that the program has been finalized and [...]
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