Lawgarithms

This blawg focuses "on legal issues surrounding technology-based entertainment."

Author: Denise Howell is an appellate, intellectual property and technology lawyer based in Newport Beach, Calif. She also writes Bag and Baggage and contributes to Between Lawyers.

Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Internet Law • Media & Communications Law • Science & Technology Law • Legal Technology

Recent Posts from Lawgarithms

Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over “branded community”
Over at ZDNet’s Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog’s use of the term “branded community” might constitute trademark infringement. It’s a…
Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?
I’m not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you’ll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven, is insidious for at least…
Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war’s expense
Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without…
Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away
Community and content management don’t void a site’s immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does. I was thus taken aback by the legal analysis included in…
Stanford Information Law Symposium
Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming (and free) program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big thinkers as Mark Lemley and…
A short, pointed list of ‘wonderful policies’
In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing’s List of Wonderful Policies. And it is.
Upcoming panel on exploiting the social graph
At a conference I attended last month on social media law (I have some interesting notes I’ll post soon), I was struck by how lawyers for social media giants such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, find…
Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit
"Copyright in a Converged World" proved a hot topic at Tech Policy Summit '08, as EFF's Fred von Lohmann and TiVo's Matt Zinn took on Patrick Ross of the Copyright Alliance and UCLA Law's Doug…
Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee
With a Bay Area Congressional seat set for special election in two months, Berkman Executive Director John Palfrey has launched a grassroots campaign to convince Professor Lawrence Lessig to run. A 2,000 member (and counting)…
Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today’s young whippersnappers don’t know how good they have it!)
My goodness. Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc. Aside from being incredibly useful, my favorite thing about this service…