S. 3804: The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, was introduced in the U.S. Senate on September 20, 2010. Sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the bill is supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, US Chamber of Commerce, Screen Actors Guild, Viacom, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, and […]
Category: Cyberspace
Last week, we looked at a case where Google was found guilty of defaming a person based on Google’s search engine’s suggested results when the person was typing his name in the search box. In a similar case, a woman named Beverly Stayart sued Yahoo! after she put her name into Yahoo!’s search engine and […]
Roughly a week ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided that vacant unlicensed spectrum between TV channels will be open for use by wireless devices. Not too long ago, low-quality spectrum was freed up by the FCC, which became unlicensed spectrum. That decision lead to the creation of Wi-Fi. Could the new release of unlicensed […]
A no-poach agreement is just slightly different than a non-compete agreement. A majority of states permit employers to place non-compete clauses in employer contracts and even have standalone non-compete agreements with employees that are separate from the employment contracts that are executed. California is known as being one of the few states that rarely permits a […]
While many are talking and writing about AOL Inc.’s purchase of TechCrunch for a reported $40 million dollars, another tech story was published today, which displays another young tech company’s growth in a short amount of time. MySpace, a service that once rivaled Facebook in capturing the attention of young people (it was not always […]