The Information Technology Law Blog and Podcast by Professor Michael Scott
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 the copyrightability of computer programs; [...]
“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 [...]
Will DRM be the final nail in the coffin of PC gaming? How anonymous can the Internet be? Why won’t YouTube grant a full legal review of all DMCA takedown requests on election campaign videos? Will trademark owners be forced to monitor domain name registrations? Can libraries go digital? Can a record label infringe its [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson is quoted as saying: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” reprinted in Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Eds. 1993). Consistency, whether foolish or not, is something that business people rely upon in making long-term decisions. Unfortunately, consistency has not been the order [...]
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