]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest Governance, Ethics & Regulation Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70304&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A few folks have sent this one in. Last week, we wrote about a really troubling ruling in the Netherlands ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:03:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70304&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=70294&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Lots of activity on the LexBlog Network today as the number of posts rises all the way to 148. Bringing up a topic I really hadn t thought much about, Daniel Schwartz discusses how the World Cup will impact the workplace, both in the States and abro... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:37:21 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=70294&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70298&rsstype=latest&cid=3 With tens of thousands of new (questionable) copyright infringement lawsuits ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:26:38 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70298&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70281&rsstype=latest&cid=3 ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:18:57 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70281&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70283&rsstype=latest&cid=3 When we write about copyright issues here, it s not uncommon for people to say well, fine, if you don t like copyright, don t use it, but why do you care if others use it? Indeed. If copyright didn t interfere with the rights of others, that woul... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:18:59 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70283&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/a-stern-glance?iid=70241&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve gotten quite few queries about litigation by the Review-Journal regarding copyright violation, so we thought it would helpful to post the article from the Las Vegas Sun that informed me of the matter.8 more websites sued over R-J copyrights; ... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:42:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/a-stern-glance?iid=70241&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70187&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Some days you just shake your head in disbelief. A year ago, we wrote about a Bulgarian chess federation was ... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:32:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70187&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=70183&rsstype=latest&cid=3 As your business blog grows, you re likely to find that a lot of visitors find their way to your blog through search engines, particularly Google. While it s very important do keyword research and use search engine optimization techniques in an... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:31:56 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=70183&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=70123&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Christopher Poole, the founder of the anarchic website and discussion forum known as 4chan, spoke earlier this year at the TED conference, and the video of his talk has just been posted (it s also embedded below). In it, Poole talks about the incre... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:00:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=70123&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70099&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Back in April, we got a tip from someone that a lawyer who had worked for the Las Vegas Journal Review newspaper had set up shop as a company, called Righthaven, to sue websites that post copies of LVJR stories. We looked into the story, and tried t... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:25:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70099&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70062&rsstype=latest&cid=3 One of the points that Michael Geist has made time and time again is that it seems like all of the attempts at copyright reform in Canada (and, I would argue, in many other countries) has had little to do with setting up the best system for either cr... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:31:36 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70062&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70047&rsstype=latest&cid=3 While companies like Verizon apparently ... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:32:48 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70047&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70003&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Regular readers may recall a few years ago that I got into a short debate with Dilbert creator Scott Adams, on the issue of copyright. I usually find Adams musings on various subjects to be interesting and insightful, but I thought he was pretty co... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:31:58 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=70003&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=70006&rsstype=latest&cid=3 The Canadian government, in an attempt to bring the country s copyright legislation into the 21st century, has tabled its own version of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The government says the proposed bill, called the Copyright Moderniz... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:32:21 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=70006&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69989&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Lots of folks have noted the ... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:30:19 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69989&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/a-stern-glance?iid=69916&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We re a bit disappointed in The Las Vegas Review-Journal. According to its competitor, The Las Vegas Sun, the LVRJ is suing 22 publications under the Copyright laws or regulations. I m one of those folks who like the LVRJ, though I m cert... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:00:45 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/a-stern-glance?iid=69916&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69871&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve already discussed how the so-called US Copyright Group (which seems like a bit of a front for DC-based law firm Dunlap Grubb Weaver -- tag line: Lawyers with a Higher Standard -- since the first named partner in the operation, Thomas Dunlap, ... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:32:09 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69871&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=69821&rsstype=latest&cid=3 The Federal Trade Commission has been nosing around how to save journalism and in its just-posted staff discussion draft on potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism, it makes its bias clear: The FTC define... Sat, 29 May 2010 12:10:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=69821&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69812&rsstype=latest&cid=3 ... Fri, 28 May 2010 22:44:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69812&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69801&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Last summer, we wrote about a lawsuit in the US where a lawyer was ... Fri, 28 May 2010 20:01:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69801&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69803&rsstype=latest&cid=3 ... Fri, 28 May 2010 18:32:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69803&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=69758&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Everybody s talking about social: social networking, social CRM, social-this, social-that. It s all just noise to me. We re social. Get over it. It s redundant. It only has to be called out because the stupid technology wasn t designed for ... Fri, 28 May 2010 16:13:30 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=69758&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=69788&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Today the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom released its anticipated Code of Practice for ISPs to help combat digital piracy (following hot on the heels of the tough Irish anti-piracy strategy). The Code forms part of the provisions of the Digital Econom... Fri, 28 May 2010 11:17:36 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=69788&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69777&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Just recently, we wrote about how a ridiculous ruling by the Australian Copyright Tribunal, boosted the royalty rates that gyms needed to pay if they played any music covered by the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA). In some cases... Fri, 28 May 2010 06:41:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69777&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69739&rsstype=latest&cid=3 ... Thu, 27 May 2010 18:35:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69739&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69694&rsstype=latest&cid=3 ACS:Law, the UK-based copyright threat letter operation that has been called a ... Thu, 27 May 2010 02:11:59 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69694&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69672&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It s not often you hear of a copyright claim concerning a text that was supposedly written more than 2,500 years ago. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Wayne Dyer, a self-help guru, ... Wed, 26 May 2010 16:21:59 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69672&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69673&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve discussed how the fashion industry is an excellent example of how a creative industry can thrive and be highly competitive and innovative without copyright many times before. In fact, way back in 2003, we noted that there was much that the ent... Wed, 26 May 2010 15:12:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69673&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69674&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Thomas Dunlap, the lawyer who set up US Copyright Group, which mimics European operations like ACS:Law in ... Wed, 26 May 2010 13:47:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69674&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69643&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Earlier this year, the US s IP Czar (technically, IP Enforcement Coordinator ), Victoria Espinel, asked for public comment on how her enforcement plan should work. While I had some trouble with the basis for many of the questions (which all seemed ... Wed, 26 May 2010 08:31:41 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69643&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69639&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Some of the earliest fears around ACTA concerned some of the earliest draft suggestions, that would increase the power of border patrol/customs officials to look for infringement at the border, including the possibility of searching your laptop or iP... Tue, 25 May 2010 22:54:09 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69639&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69632&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Why is it that politicians keep using music in commercials without getting permission first? No matter what you think of the copyright issue (and we ll get to that), it s amazing to me that any politician doesn t recognize that if he or she uses a s... Tue, 25 May 2010 18:29:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69632&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69566&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It s no secret (though certain copyright and patent system defenders insist otherwise) that copyrights and patents are monopoly privileges, granted by the government. In fact, some of our elected officials have made the argument that ... Mon, 24 May 2010 19:38:58 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69566&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69545&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A few months back, we noted that James Murdoch had a rather ... Mon, 24 May 2010 16:32:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69545&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69477&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Earlier, we wrote about the ... Fri, 21 May 2010 18:22:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69477&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69432&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Ah, Perfect 10. The adult content company has spent the last decade or so engaged in one copyright lawsuit after another, accusing pretty much every search engine out there of copyright infringement for hosting thumbnails of images that others uploa... Fri, 21 May 2010 11:32:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69432&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69385&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Over a five year period, the RIAA really seemed to believe that its strategy of suing music fans directly made sense. Of course, it did nothing of the sort. The strategy was a ... Thu, 20 May 2010 16:31:56 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69385&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69349&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A few months back, President Obama publicly ... Thu, 20 May 2010 08:15:35 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69349&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69302&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve covered the ongoing fight over copyright termination rights lately, as it s quickly becoming a big deal. While the whole concept shows part of how messed up copyright law has become, one element included to help artists (rather than just big c... Wed, 19 May 2010 10:33:38 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69302&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=69291&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Everyone knows that images help make a good blog post great. Not only do they provide a much-needed visual element to break up the gray text, but they help your content stand out in RSS readers.Unfortunately though, not everyone has the photography ... Wed, 19 May 2010 07:00:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=69291&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69261&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve pointed out many times in the past the unintended consequences of certain activities, and it looks like the entertainment industry s worldwide effort to push for more and more industry-favorable copyright laws is causing serious problems else... Tue, 18 May 2010 19:00:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69261&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=69240&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Just over a year ago, I took part in an experiment creating the content of a business book wholly via Twitter.The Twitter book called Social Media Marketing GPS was the idea of social media marketing diva Toby Bloomberg whose plan was to creat... Tue, 18 May 2010 08:10:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=69240&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69213&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ... Tue, 18 May 2010 03:55:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69213&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69198&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Obviously, there s been lots of talk about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in numerous areas. There have been various reports concerning Kagan s supposed ... Mon, 17 May 2010 20:31:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69198&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69185&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We ve been covering the new US operation, US Copyright Group. You may recall, it burst on the scene in late March with a claim of having ... Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:13 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69185&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69167&rsstype=latest&cid=3 The MPAA and Hollywood in general have been very, very strong supporters of stricter and more restrictive copyright laws pretty much as far as they can go. Jack Valenti, for many years the head of the MPAA, has famously declared both that, if it wer... Mon, 17 May 2010 12:32:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69167&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69161&rsstype=latest&cid=3 While the US entertainment industry continues to insist that Canada s copyright law is way too friendly to would-be infringers, one area where it most certainly is not is in the area of fair use. Up in Canada, they don t even have fair use, but th... Mon, 17 May 2010 08:32:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69161&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69106&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We expressed some serious ... Fri, 14 May 2010 20:32:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69106&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69095&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We already wrote about the ... Fri, 14 May 2010 13:44:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=69095&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=68989&rsstype=latest&cid=3 This is hardly a surprise, given earlier rulings on various file sharing systems, but ... Wed, 12 May 2010 18:34:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=68989&rsstype=latest&cid=3