Singularity Law

The blogosphere has been afire about actions taken by Associated Press (AP) against the Drudge Retort last week. According to reports, AP sent a series of DMCA take down notices to the Drudge Retort demanding that the blog remove six items (including one user comment) that quoted AP headlines or snippets of content from AP [...]

We have reached another milestone on the development of the IT Law Wiki. It has passed 3,000 articles and is moving toward 4,000. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the wiki thus far, and would like to encourage others to do so as well.
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Twitter.com is a service that lets people send short messages (140 characters or less) (called “tweets”) to those who decide to “follow” them, and to receive short messages from those they choose to follow. While Twitter.com is used both for social networking and for business communications, it can also be an effective way to get [...]

The Ninth Circuit recently published its en banc decision in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com LLC, 2008 WL 879293 (9th Cir. April 3, 2008). I do not intend to comment on the merits of the decision, which has been analyzed in depth here and here and here, but I want to [...]

After a year of planning, and encountering a few “bumps” along the way, I am pleased to announce that my law school, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, will begin a summer abroad program in International Information Technology Law in London in 2009. The program will be open to law students worldwide, although we expect the [...]

I was interested in an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times shortly before Christmas. It indicated that some of the major writers were meeting with venture capitalists to see of they could start their own production companies to create entertainment products specifically for the Internet. The writers apparently see this as one [...]

As the number of data security breaches continues to increase, and the number of persons who have their personal information exposed reach over 100 million, you would think these victims would have some remedy for the time and effort they have to go through to get their lives back in order. Yet, the cases have [...]

What’s a lawyer to do? Your client tells you to send a nasty letter to Digg.com, demanding that it immediately take down an encryption key that can unlock the digital right management on HD-DVDs. You send the letter. Digg, “acting on advice of its lawyers,” complies. The CEO posts a notice on the [...]

Accepting the old adage, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” some record labels are posting their own video clips on some of the very same P2P networks they claim are violating their copyrights. Suretone Records, a label of the Universal Music Group, with popular groups like Weezer and Drop Dead Gorgeous, is reported [...]

Viacom recently sued YouTube for copyright infringement, claiming a billion dollars in damages for unauthorized copies of its content posted on the popular website. Many observers suspect that the suit was filed by Viacom, not because it intends to litigate the matter through to judgment, but as a negotiating ploy to get a better licensing [...]