]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest Governance, Ethics & Regulation Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:57:15 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52966&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Back in July we wrote about our surprise at the fact that the Graduate Management Admission Council, who creates the GMAT test used as part of the admissions process for many business schools, had won a copyright infringement lawsuit against a test p... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:33:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52966&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52932&rsstype=latest&cid=3 While Disney is quite often painted as the leader of the pack when it comes to ridiculous and draconian copyright-related proposals, much of that can be attributed to former CEO Michael Eisner, who helped push for the Bono Copyright Extension Act to ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:13:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52932&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52933&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Reader Video Savant alerts us to the fact that CBS Interactive is the latest entity to ding the McCain campaign for copyright violations. In this case, CBS has sent a takedown notice to YouTube concerning one of McCain s latest commercials. The com... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:55:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52933&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52896&rsstype=latest&cid=3 OK so I ve been playing around with Genius and here are my initial thoughts / experiences: If you ve got a lot of indie catalogue in your iTunes catalogue (and I do) it reveals just how may gaps remain in the iTunes Music Store catalogue. The ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:33:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52896&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52937&rsstype=latest&cid=3 As we noted earlier this summer, Senator Patrick Leahy had introduced a companion bill to the House s dreadful Pro-IP bill, except that Leahy s bill went further. Beyond just adding a Copyright Czar position to the White House, it would authorize ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:53:50 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52937&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52840&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Over the past few years, there have been a series of lawsuits concerning whether or not fantasy baseball operators need to license player info from Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball lost at every level and an eventual appeal to the Suprem... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:11:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52840&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52844&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Last Friday, we noted that scammers were picking up the success the entertainment industry was having with pre-settlement letters to accused file sharers, and using a similar tactic with phone calls, demanding money to avoid getting sued. We noted... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:16:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52844&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52749&rsstype=latest&cid=3 When the EU ignored tons of evidence and the very purpose of copyright in announcing plans to extend performance copyrights from 50 to 95 years, the politicians who supported this proposal (of course) insisted that they were doing so to benefit the a... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:34:53 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52749&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52754&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Another day, another silly attempt to own an idea that will backfire badly. It would appear that the guy who owns the rights to a short story, It Had to Be Murder, which was the basis for the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rear Window is now suing S... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:27:11 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52754&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52755&rsstype=latest&cid=3 One of the points of contention we sometimes have with those who disagree with us about the role of free in a business model, is how you deal with the issue of freeloaders. People often respond to our posts on business models that use free to poin... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:11:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52755&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52707&rsstype=latest&cid=3 For a long time, Europe has allowed database rights, effectively allowing companies to get a copyright of sorts on a collection of factual data. The US has mostly disagreed with this, noting that facts themselves cannot be covered by copyright, ev... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:33:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52707&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52708&rsstype=latest&cid=3 You may remember that soon after the entertainment industry provided The Pirate Bay with a ton of free publicity by getting the site (oh so briefly) shut down, its next target was isoHunt, which similarly backfired. While isoHunt is still involved i... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:34:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52708&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52661&rsstype=latest&cid=3 The Church of Scientology is rather notorious for its heavy-handed responses to any critics -- often using copyright claims to stop them from criticizing the organization. The latest is that the EFF is reporting that over 4,000 critical videos have ... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:24:58 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52661&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52663&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Despite the fact that J.K. Rowling relied on emotional, rather than legal reasons for not wanting the publication of a guidebook about the Harry Potter universe, called the Harry Potter Lexicon to go forward, it appears that a judge was convinced. T... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:53:02 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52663&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52665&rsstype=latest&cid=3 If you read the comments on this site regularly -- especially concerning posts having to do with patents or the patent system -- you re probably quite familiar with a guy named Ronald J. Riley. He s quite the character. He s also quite the fan of t... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:14:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52665&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52666&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Sure, with a $1 billion ... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:36:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52666&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52616&rsstype=latest&cid=3 At the Inverge conference on Friday, Joshua Green, research manager for MIT s Convergence Culture Consortium, used the AMC-Twittergate-Mad Men Nine story to illustrate a fresh way of thinking about the entertainment value chain now that we ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:31:12 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52616&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52610&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Have you ever had one of those days where you set aside time to blog and while you spend the whole time that you put aside busily doing stuff - you don t end up actually writing anything?I had one of those days this last week. After what felt... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:14:36 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52610&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52574&rsstype=latest&cid=3 WordCamps are popping up everywhere, in China, Japan, Australia, Israel, Utah, Toronto, Vancouver, Portland, and more. Are you tracking WordPress 2.7 development? Martha Stewart now does WordPress and windows. Super Cache updated. WordPressMU upgrade... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:49:21 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52574&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52542&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It really was only a matter of time. For a while now, the entertainment industry has been using borderline extortion tactics with pre-settlement letters that promise individuals they won t get sued if only they pay a fee upfront -- ranging from a ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:31:49 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52542&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52559&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A new report out from Forrester takes a chart-filled look at cloud computing, offering the analyst firm s own definition of the cloud and attempting to dispel three myths they have noticed. Since we at GigaOM buy pretty heavily into two of these so... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:20:59 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52559&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52544&rsstype=latest&cid=3 No matter what you think of controversial film maker Michael Moore (and I ll admit that I m not a fan -- I think he s entertaining, but plays way too loose with the facts, even on issues where I might agree with him), over the years this been this od... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52544&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52449&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Here s a question for you: can someone own the copyright on the history of a musical group? We may find out as a ... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:53:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52449&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52368&rsstype=latest&cid=3 I love Matt Haughey s thoughtful post on the differences between comments on blogs in 2008 and those back in the day (five years ago).But I think the root of the problem (described in various media outlets over the past year or so) of snarky, or mean... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:05:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52368&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52357&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We get angry requests every so often, demanding that this or that comment be removed from Techdirt because someone doesn t like the content of the comment. However, unless the content is illegal, there is no obligation to remove that content. Unfor... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:59:51 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52357&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-engagement?iid=52334&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Link: Google Chrome is Bad for Writers & Bloggers : Edward Champion s Reluctant Habits.So Google has released a new browser called Chrome. But I ll never use it. And it s because Chrome s EULA wishes to take anything that I type into my bro... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:41:19 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-engagement?iid=52334&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52308&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A blog post linking to one of my blog posts has been scraped dozens of times. Recently, it was scraped by eight different sites in the same day. The eight trackbacked sites turned out to have a single owner/webmaster using their auto-blogging scraper... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:37:25 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52308&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52137&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It is an amazing afternoon out in Missoula, Montana as I wrap up my first week writing these posts on the LexBlogosphere. I hope everyone s Labor Day weekend is looking just as nice. Well, it s Friday afternoon, time to call it quits and take a look... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:53:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52137&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52184&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It is an amazing afternoon out in Missoula, Montana as I wrap up my first week writing these posts on the LexBlogosphere. I hope everyone s Labor Day weekend is looking just as nice. Well, it s Friday afternoon, time to call it quits and take a look... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:53:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52184&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52150&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We were pretty surprised a few weeks back when the European Commission endorsed a plan for copyright extension, despite ample evidence that retroactive copyright extension is a bad idea. Soon after that announcement, a group of European academics se... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:16:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52150&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52151&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Over the years, I ve written plenty about the economics of infinite vs. scarce goods. Too often (and I do this on occasion as well) people default into thinking of tangible goods as being the scarce ones, and digital goods or information goods as ... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:55:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52151&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52073&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A judge has ruled that online video hosting site Veoh is not guilty of copyright infringement for videos uploaded by its users. The judge made the proper ruling here, noting that the DMCA s safe harbors protect Veoh. The lawsuit was brought by adul... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:01:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52073&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51978&rsstype=latest&cid=3 WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco videos should be out any time. Lots of WordCamp News including last weekend s WordCamp South Africa and upcoming WordCamps in Portland, Hawaii, Birmingham, Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Utah, Philippines, and more. Jeffr... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:34:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51978&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51924&rsstype=latest&cid=3 A few weeks back, we wrote about Ryanair s decision to cancel flight tickets that had been bought by travelers via third party websites. This made no sense to us whatsoever. These third party websites were acting as resellers, and doing something t... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:33:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51924&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51889&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Over at the Technology Liberation Front, my co-blogger Adam Thierer discusses the trade-offs between platform competition and standardization, a subject Mike has written about in the past. Adam explores the mobile phone and console markets, and point... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:50:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51889&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51878&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Well I guess it s finally time to check out Wordscraper. Caving Responding to a formal complaint from Scrabble copyright holder Mattel, Facebook has blocked access to Scrabulous for pretty much everyone. I was hoping to at least play Scrabulous wh... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:51:26 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51878&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/e-media-tidbits?iid=51879&rsstype=latest&cid=3 HoyasMeg, via Flickr (CC license)News from the ever-lively Israeli media scene.Summer is ending, and the Israeli school year is about to start next week. Unless, of course, we have one of our nearly annual school strikes -- teachers, security guards... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:02:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/e-media-tidbits?iid=51879&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51858&rsstype=latest&cid=3 As you recall, Hasbro s decisions on how to deal with upstart Scrabulous backfired badly. The company first threatened Scrabulous, then tried to do a deal with them. When that failed it (finally!) built its own Facebook Scrabble and then sued Scrab... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:46:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51858&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51860&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Ever since my troublemaker friend Andy Abramson figured out a way to make VoIP calls over GoGo, the in-flight broadband system from Aircell, there has been a flurry of activity leading to the banning of some of the services Andy used.Andy s experim... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:21:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51860&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51837&rsstype=latest&cid=3 I m a fan of Groklaw, but like any long-running soap opera, I tune out for weeks - okay, months - at a time and then check back in. I love the copyright news and litigation insider bits, but sometimes, unlike an ongoing soap opera, I don t know w... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:55:10 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51837&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51812&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Wired covers the fact that the 2008 Democratic National Convention is the most covered media event in their party s history - by bloggers!:This year s convention sees multiple firsts in technological innovations for the quadrennial political part... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:20:44 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51812&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51804&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Over the past couple months we have covered the tale of Scrabulous, the popular Facebook application which brought the traditional game of Scrabble to the online environment. After more than nine months of threats, Hasbro, the owner of Scrabble, fina... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:17:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51804&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51753&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Remember the recent story we had where some researchers noted that, despite the conventional wisdom (and claims from Time Warner), it appeared that Time Warner ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:10:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51753&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51748&rsstype=latest&cid=3 When it comes to matters of copyright, some companies have an earned reputation as being attack dogs. They are known for filing takedown notices at the drop of a hat, throwing lawsuits around at will and generally intimidating anyone that they feel g... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:21:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51748&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51671&rsstype=latest&cid=3 We already covered the judge s ruling about how copyright holders need to ... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:48:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51671&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51651&rsstype=latest&cid=3 It s no secret that both the MPAA and the RIAA have created so-called educational campaigns for students about copyright. These educational programs are incredibly one-side, of course, and it s amazing that many schools actually allow this sort of... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:08:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=51651&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51605&rsstype=latest&cid=3 WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco was a hit! The WordPress Scavenger Hunt fundraiser was great fun. WordPress hosts the US Government, as well as Britain. WordPress 2.6.1 released. The first WordPress Plugin API for a WordPress Plugin announced. Want to... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:08:30 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=51605&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51594&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Today s update features a fine mix of authors. Though a good number of them are frequent guests, a few - like Seattle attorney Stacia Lay or the Delaware lawyers at Morris James - are being brought back into the fold after a lull in activity. Co... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:40:35 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51594&rsstype=latest&cid=3 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51946&rsstype=latest&cid=3 Today s update features a fine mix of authors. Though a good number of them are frequent guests, a few - like Seattle attorney Stacia Lay or the Delaware lawyers at Morris James - are being brought back into the fold after a lull in activity. Co... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:40:35 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51946&rsstype=latest&cid=3