User’s Guide to Holding Your Phone
Nokia has a brilliant post on its corporate blog about how best to hold your Nokia phone. Of course, the iPhone v4 infamously suffers degraded connections if you hold it wrong. This is only the...
View ArticleGoogle Music, and the Cost of Holdouts
Google is set to debut its cloud-based music service, called (creatively) Google Music. This isn’t revolutionary after Amazon launched its service. What makes it fun for IP nerds like me is that Google...
View ArticleMalware, MacOS, and Mayhem
It’s Alliteration Monday here at Info/Law! Ars Technica has a great write-up on the Mac Defender malware that’s been infecting hipsters‘ MacBooks left and right. Apple started by ignoring the problem,...
View ArticleThe Hardest Thing to Predict Is the Future
SOPA and PROTECT IP are dead… for now. (They’ll be back. COICA is like a wraith inhabiting PROTECT IP.) Until then, Michelle Schusterman has a terrific graphic about the movie industry’s predictions of...
View ArticleLifehacker on Ubiquitous Infringement
Lifehacker‘s Adam Dachis has a great article on how users can deal with a world in which they infringe copyright constantly, both deliberately and inadvertently. (Disclaimer alert: I talked with Adam...
View ArticleCelebrities, Copyright, and Cybersecurity
The fall began with a wave of hacked nude celebrity photos (as Tim notes in his great post). The release generated attention to the larger problem of revenge porn – or, more broadly, the non-consensual...
View ArticleThe iPhone Writ Large
Apple and the Department of Justice are dueling over whether the iPhone maker must write code to help the government break into the San Bernadino shooter’s phone. The government obtained a warrant to...
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