Greenpeace reported that cloud computing may be popular, but generally it’s not very clean and gave Apple Ds and Amazon Fs, while Google got the best grades. The Greenpeace report entitled “How Clean is Your Cloud?” made these observations about electrical consumption:
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“Fair use” of copyrighted works includes criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, so what about use of public documents? The recent class action copyright infringement suit brought against West and LexisNexis (White v. West) will likely turn on the “fair use” doctrine. The Copyright Office describes “fair use&rdquo…
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Allegedly MIT’s computer systems were breached by Aaron Swartz who then downloaded millions of scholarly articles, but there are no claims of copyrights infringement. The New York Times reported that in July 2011 Aaron Swartz was indicted on charges that he:
…broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to…
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Few of the +150 million users realize that since LinkedIn began its operations that everyone gives an unrestricted license to everything posted. This may be a surprise since so few people ever bother to read Terms of Service (ToS) on any website or click agreement. Here is the license in…
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Pew Research recently reported that amazingly 86% of search engine users “learned something new or important that really helped them or increased their knowledge.” In the same report Pew also stated that:
91% of search engine users say they always or most of the time find the information they are…
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After headlines about job applicants required to provide Facebook passwords two Senators requested an investigation of violation of federal laws. US Senators Chuck Schumer (New York) and Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) issued a press release requesting that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Justice:
…launch a federal investigation…
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My recent blog about the copyright class action suit about the ownership of pleadings filed in federal and state courts around the US has intrigued many. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal in the 1970’s state and federal governments have become more open. Anyone can get information whether posted…
Two lawyers filed a class action suit against West and LexisNexis for violating the copyrights of court filings around the country. The lawsuit filed in Federal Court in New York City on February 22, 2012 by Edward White (of Oklahoma City) and Kenneth Elan (of New York) starts with a…
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Since 92% of adults use search engines every day means that they share volumes of information with Google, who dominates searching, 66.4% in the US and 80% in the EU. No one was surprised when Pew Research reported that 92% of adults search daily, but what Google does…
In 1994 Roger Fidler created a tablet with most of the features of the iPad a federal Judge ruled in Apple’s patent infringement case against Samsung. US District Judge Lucy Koh denied Apple’s motion for an injunction against Samsung for its Galaxy and Droid phone because Fidler’s 1994 tablet design…
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