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Innovate or Die – Open and Crowd-Sourced Innovation
“Innovate or Die.” While there exists some controversy about who said it first in the modern age, Charles Darwin really hit it on the head the earliest. “It is not the strongest of the species that...
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Privacy Protection – Patents on a White Horse Riding to the Rescue?
With all the hand wringing about privacy I have been doing, along with many others, what can we do? Incorporate Article 8 from the European Convention on Human Rights? Throw up our hands and walk...
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Stealing is Stealing! Copyright Law Isn’t Different in Social Media
You may think that social media and the internet have changed copyright rules. That whatever you find is something you can use. Let me first say that nothing has changed. While some may hail the...
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It’s Just an Argument – Fair Use, Schmair Use
If you are a lawyer advising clients on content issues and creative campaigns you have invariably heard the refrain “but it’s fair use.” If you are one of those clients who have said those words,...
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Facebook’s new policy changes allow it to read your face, use it for ads
Originally posted on Gigaom:Facebook is making big changes to the language in its Data Use and Privacy Policy that will allow the company to use information already on the platform in new ways that...
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The Price of Being Social – Facebook Becomes More Transparent-ish?
Facebook is changing its data use policy (translation – Privacy Policy) on the social network. As Selena Larson of readwrite states plainly, “You Are Its Product.” Yesterday, in Facebook’s own...
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Social Risk Management and Mobile Patent Watch – Just Another Tuesday
What if you had a system that could eliminate all risk of social media engagement? Would you install it? MacWorld, and others are reporting on a new patent granted to Apple. The patent would allow a...
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What a User Wants – Wearable Computing Deconstructed
Wearable computing is the coming thing, or at least some are saying that. Being a technology hound, I am also excited by it. I think the trend is there from computers at a distance (mainframes) to...
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I Came Here Expecting Fair Use – Copyrights in the Digital Age and Funny Clients
Clients are sometimes the funniest and cutest creatures of all time, especially when it comes to copyright law they learned on the internet. If your clients do any type of creative work, you have...
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You Use is Not Fair – Copyright Myths and Avoiding Issues
You may think you understand copyright law enough because you have never gotten a cease and desist letter, but beware the pitfalls of your fair use misconceptions. Copyrights, like all intellectual...
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