http://singularitylaw.com The Information Technology Law Blog and Podcast by Professor Michael Scott Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:57:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the mid-1990s, I spoke on a panel at the “Digital World” conference in Hollywood, California. It was one of the first conferences to bring together the entertainment industry and the nascent Internet industry. I remember clearly that the keynote speaker, one of the major studio heads at the time, ... http://singularitylaw.com/technology-law/who%e2%80%99s-the-king-today Several people have asked how I generate the tweets that I regularly post on Twitter (under @LawProf, @CopyrightLaw, @InternetLaw and @PrivacyLaw). There is actually no magic to it. I use Google Reader to help me locate interesting blog entries, news articles, law review articles, etc. I subscribe to slightly more than ... http://singularitylaw.com/miscellany/generating-tweets Many legal pundits start each year with an excellent series of predictions on where IT law will go during that year. I don’t want to provide a list of issues that may (or may not) be resolved in the next 12 months. Instead, I want to note an issue that ... http://singularitylaw.com/technology-law/internet-e-commerce-law/network-neutrality-in-2010 The newspaper industry is suffering. At least one newspaper is closing down each week in the United States, and this trend is likely to continue unless the industry makes some radical changes in their way of thinking. Unfortunately, those who control most of the newspapers in the United States just ... http://singularitylaw.com/technology-law/news-is-not-the-issue-advertising-is A few days from now I will be co-chairing a conference on “clean tech law.” Many people who have known me for years have been curious as to why I would be organizing a conference in a “new” area of law. The fact is that while clean technology (solar, ... http://singularitylaw.com/cleantech/info-tech-to-clean-tech I will be co-chairing an exciting, one-day conference at Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) on Friday, September 18th on Cleantech Law and Policy. The program will be divided into four panel discussions addressing a variety of topics, including: 1. The New Government Energy Policies and CleanTech’s Opportunities: Incentives and ... http://singularitylaw.com/technology-law/upcoming-conference-on-cleantech-law Just slightly less than two years ago, a number of volunteers launched the IT Law Wiki. Their intent was to develop a comprehensive encyclopedia of materials relating to the burgeoning field of information technology law. The IT Law Wiki has reached an important milestone with the posting of its 5000th article. ... http://singularitylaw.com/miscellany/it-law-wiki-hits-5000-articles When I began practicing in the field of computer law (a quaint term today), a good computer lawyer had to know contract law, and some tax law -- and that was pretty much all. Patents were available for hardware, but not software; the Copyright Office still had its doubts about ... http://singularitylaw.com/outsourcing-law/and-now-%e2%80%a6-admiralty-law As many newspapers fold or downsize, companies that make their money from selling content to those newspapers are running into financial problems as well. One of the most visible, and outspoken, of those companies is Associated Press (AP). AP is an American news agency that aggregates stories written by its ... http://singularitylaw.com/copyright-law/associated-press-gets-it-wrong-again In the computer field, like any other field, there are “fads.” Some fads are short lived, while others take root and become part of the fabric of the IT business world. Unfortunately, it is difficult to tell sometimes what kind of fad we are talking about. When the Internet was ... http://singularitylaw.com/technology-law/heads-in-the-cloud