Cyberlaw Central
"The digital world, its impact and legal framework."
Author: Kevin A. Thompson is a Chicago lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Internet Law • Science & Technology Law • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Cyberlaw Central
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Guest on Lawyer 2 Lawyer Podcast: “Privacy and Piracy: Viacom v. YouTube”
I was honored to be asked to participate on the excellent Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on the topic of the recent stipulation entered into between Viacom and YouTube (Google) over user data that the Judge…
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Top level domain expansion coming in 2009
ICANN has today approved an expansion of the top level Internet domains from the familiar ones (.com, .net, .org, etc) to an unlimited array of choices. All that will be required is a showing of…
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Quick Link - Protecting your identity online
Hat tip to BeSpacific for the link to this article posted at PC World by Rosemark Haworth entitled “A Guide to Protecting Your Identity Online.” Among the tips include: - Letting people within your networks…
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YouTomb: A Study of Copyright Infringement on YouTube
Be sure to check out YouTomb, a research project of MIT Free Culture. It monitors YouTube for videos that are taken down pursuant to DMCA takedown notices. The site shows a screenshot of the video…
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The future of DRM
Over lunch today, I had a nice chat with a fellow lawyer about digital rights management (DRM), among other topics. Then, later on, I came across this nice article from The Guardian entitled “How Apple…
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Jonathan Zittrain’s new book is out
I am excitedly planning to read Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it. It’s out in a free Creative Commons licensed version, linked above, as well as one…
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Interesting presentation on Cybercrime
Here’s a link to Jonathan Frieden’s post entitled “Defending a Criminal Case in a Cyber World” where he posts the outline of his recent talk on the subject. If you follow my blog regularly I’m…
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Slides from Copyright presentation
Here are my slides from the presentation I gave on April 1, 2008 at the Chicago Bar Association as part of the Internet Intellectual Property Issues for Small Businesses seminar. My presentation is entitled “Copyright…
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Is this the day the world changed?
The results of the FCC’s wireless spectrum auction are of particular interest to more than just people in the telecom industry, as it will significantly impact how people access the Internet for years to come.…
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Techshow 2008 - Day 2 - In Progress update
Since my last post, yesterday I attended the end of the Day 1 sessions and the evening Techshow After Dark event. Today, I attended sessions on e-discovery, disaster planning, using Internet-based collaboration tools, and computer…