27 Sunday May 2012
Posted in Privacy, Social Media
Stories from the Week that Was – 5/20/12-5/26/12
The Failures of the Facebook Generation in the Arab Spring
IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent Judge Rules
Drones Take Flight For Civilian Use
7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely
UK ‘cookie law’ takes effect: What you need to know
“A patent is property carried to the highest degree of abstraction—a right in rem to exclude, without a physical object or content.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
13 Sunday May 2012
Stories from the Week that Was – 5/6/12-5/12/12
A mid-week election saw Richard Mourdock topple long-standing Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Has anybody bothered to ask Mourdock or (Democrat rival) Joe Donnelly’s thoughts on legislation like CISPA and SNOPA? Not this week, when all the talk was about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and President Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage.
Why the New gTLDs Don’t Matter
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules
Property rights in the cloud: Your data or theirs?
Twitter Defends User In Court Over Occupy Tweets
Think That Email Isn’t a Contract? Think Again
Facebook bans Grooveshark over copyright complaint
How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?
Mars Rover Opportunity Rolling Again After Winter Break
New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers
“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg
29 Sunday Apr 2012
Posted in Intellectual Property, Legislation, Patent, Privacy, Social Media, Trademark
Stories from the Week that Was – 4/22/12-4/28/12
US says intellectual property supports 40 million jobs
How CISPA will affect us [infographic]
Facebook Signs $550M Patent Deal
Judge Adds #Hashtags To Twitter Ruling
House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168
Will ’emoticon defense’ disprove cyberbullying?
“If you value liberty, privacy and the Constitution, then you will vote no on CISPA.” – Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Ga)
14 Saturday Apr 2012
Stories from the Week that Was – 4/8/12-4/14/12
President Obama Signs Into Law The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
Amazon will now buy your old CDs
Maryland becomes first state to ban employers from asking for social media passwords
Warning from the USPTO Concerning Unofficial Trademark Solicitations
U.S. sees warmest March in recorded history, NOAA reports
Facebook To Acquire Instagram For $1 Billion
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” – John Perry Barlow
26 Monday Dec 2011
Stories from the Week that Was – 12/18-12/25/11
Dear Internet: It’s No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works
In the eyes of the law, are we all public figures on Facebook?
“The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.” – Eric Allman
27 Sunday Nov 2011
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Stories from the Week that Was – 11/20-11/26/11
Fighting The Pseudonym Cyberwar
The Facebook Parents’ Dilemma: COPPA and my daughter turn 13
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Copyright and the First Amendment: The Unexplored, Unbroken Historical Practice
Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
Rogues Falsely Claim Copyright on YouTube Videos to Hijack Ad Dollars
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” John F. Kennedy
27 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Copyright, Federal Initiatives, Intellectual Property, Social Media
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Stories from the Week that Was – 11/20-11/26/11
Fighting The Pseudonym Cyberwar
The Facebook Parents’ Dilemma: COPPA and my daughter turn 13
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Copyright and the First Amendment: The Unexplored, Unbroken Historical Practice
Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
Rogues Falsely Claim Copyright on YouTube Videos to Hijack Ad Dollars
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” John F. Kennedy
13 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Intellectual Property, Litigation, Privacy, Social Media
Stories from the Week that Was – 11/6-11/12/11
Don’t Believe Facebook, Spotify’s The Only Open Graph Music App Winning
Two-thirds support social networking blackout in future riots
Facebook nears settlement with FTC on privacy
Social Media Impact by Nonprofit Issues [Infographic]
Six-year project to tweet the Second World War
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
23 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Privacy, Social Media, Trade Secret, Trademark
Stories from the Week that Was – 10/16-10/22/11
McDonald’s sues China trademark body over logo dispute
Chinese man pleads guilty for U.S. trade secret theft
Obama announces full withdrawal from Iraq
NATO Commander Announces End to Libyan War Over Facebook
How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates
“The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors’ works have survived even in part.” Richard Stallman
16 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Social Media
Stories from the Week that Was – 10/9-10/15/11
Legal Sector Shed 1,300 Jobs in September
Netflix Abandons Qwikster DVD Plan
Are Facebook ID Cards In Our Future?
“The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.’ To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.”
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
499 US 340, 349 (1991)
Oregon Intellectual Property Blog 
