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"How trademark, copyright, privacy and politics shape the Web."
Author: Dave Wieneke is an interactive marketing manager at Thomson CompuMark inNorth Quincy, Mass.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law
Recent Posts from UsefulArts.us
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Drug Makers Beg for FDA Regulations to Allow Them to Twitter and Blog
In April, the FDA sent warning letters to 14 companies, including Eli Lilly and Co and Merck & Co Inc., about their drug marketing online, saying that ads for certain products were misleading and did…
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Litl Computer: Meet the Next Apple Computer While It Still has 40 Staff
Litl Computer is to netbooks as iPods were to MP3 players. The beauty of the iPod was that it was designed to fit people’s worlds. It fit physically and it conceptually allowed users to find and…
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The Truth Hurts: ATT Looses Ridiculous Lawsuit to Verizon
Verizon’s defense against ATT’s request for a temporary restraining order was blazing, and a fantastic read. Its like they let their savage ad team help write the brief. ATT demanded that Verizon pull five disputed…
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Online Tools Help Parents Pick Safe Toys This Holiday Season
This year, online tools are helping parents identify dangerous products, and better still, select healthy choices from the field of safe picks. In today’s complex world, everyone’s health safety is increasingly in their own informed…
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Court Rules Domain Registration Privacy Services = ‘Material Falsification’
There are lots of legitimate reasons people don’t want their names on domain-ownership records. These range from exercising the privilege of anonymous speech, to avoiding spam, to simply preserving one’s own privacy. Of course this…
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Do You Need Liability Insurance For Your Personal Blog? You May Already Have Some.
If you’re blogging, you’re a publisher. Yesterday I posted about how Cyber Liability Insurance may help firms mitigate the risks of new online business activities. But what about your personal blog? Liability for Your Personal…
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Cyber Liability Insurance: Large Firms Should Hedge Risks
Online marketing has moved many firms toward a publishing model to generate market awareness and engagement. This has spawned a broader range of public exchanges with both customers and the public as they share ideas…
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Hoax Alert: UK Nanny State Takes Kids From Fat Family, Issues Biscuit Threat Index
We’ve previously commented on how the land of Orwell seems hell-bent on invading the personal lives of its citizens. Now here’s all the proof necessary to feel both concerned and superior at once. Sadly, only…
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ATT Sues Verizon, and Yep, “There’s a Map for That”
Verizon’s all-3G network makes ATT’s 3G map look spotty at best. However, ATT has tremendous 2G coverage, which means though you may not be able to use an iPhone’s online features, you’re not entirely “out…
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PII Compliant? 500,000 Veterans’ Social Security Numbers Published in the Congressional Record
Just over a year ago, Carl Malamud, the founder of Public.Resource.org, a non-profit dedicated to making public records available online, did the Department of Defense a big proper. He noticed that the social security numbers…


