After filing more than 275 copyright infringement lawsuits, it now turns out that Righthaven was not the owner of the copyrights asserted in the lawsuit, and as a result is now on the verge of bankruptcy. The copyright infringement claims were made for reposting pictures and stories previously published
Google Buys Zagat – New Source of Data and Spread for Social Media!
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Google paid an estimated $100-200 million to expand its reach by purchasing Zagat Survey that potentially increases Google’s Social Media power. Pew Research recently report that 92% of adults on the Internet use search engines every day, so couple that information with Google’s “estimates that about 20 percent of…
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Should Google+ Users be Anonymous?
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Google’s Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview that Google+ users should be not be anonymous since it would be better “if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer.” Schmidt’s comments thoughts reinforce one…
Did you Notice? LinkedIn Revised its User Agreement
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LinkedIn boasts +120 million members who all agree to be bound to their User Agreement, but few LinkedIn members noticed that on June 16, 2011 the LinkedIn User Agreement changed. LinkedIn’s new User Agreement is not radically different from previous versions. However since the LinkedIn User Agreement binds +120 million…
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65% of All Adults Use Social Media
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Only 5% of all adults used Social Media in 2005 when Pew Research first asked, and as ofAugust 2011 Pew now reports more than 65% of all adults use Social Media. To be more precise about what going on with online adults here’s the daily breakdown from another…
Court Protects Cloud Music Lockers
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Copyright protection extends to cloud music lockers based on a new federal court ruling. US District Judge William H. Pauley III in New York granted judgments in favor of MP3tunes and Michael Robertson on August 22, 2011 under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) since MP3tunes complied with the DMCA…
Google Increases Its Internet Law Business
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In 2009 Google started offering legal research and eDiscovery services (Postini), and now Google announced that it invested $18.5 million in RocketLawyer.com which bills itself as the “fastest growing online legal service.” Forbes reported that RocketLawyer.com founder Charley Moore:
…the firm has 70,000 users a day and has…
UK News – Use of Facebook Earn 4 Year Jail Terms
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Within 10 days of the riots in the UK a judge sentenced two young men, 20 and 22, to 4 years in jail for using Facebook. Without question Social Media has transformed communications and impacted the UK riots, but one might wonder if the courts may have acted too swiftly.
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Apple More Valuable than Exxon Mobil!
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A NY Times stock market report for August 8, 2011 highlighed the fact that Apple’s stock was the most valuable company in the world ahead of Exxon Mobil, but by the close of the day Exxon Mobil was still number one. Many stock analysts “expect Apple and Exxon Mobil to…
eBay Waging War Against an Internet Sales Taxes
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Apparently eBay wants to spread the word that it opposes an Internet sales tax. I wrote my eCommerce Times Legal Column recently about Internet sales taxes entitled “Sales Taxes on the Internet: Is This the Year We’ll Pay?” I suspect that as a result of my Column, eBay’s PR…
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