In a stunning blow to large publishers, the United States Supreme Court overturned two lower courts in determining that the copyright law did not prevent a Thai student-entrepreneur named Supap Kirtsaeng from buying cheaper, legally-obtained versions of various textbooks in Thailand, bringing them to the US, and then re-selling them to his fellow students here …
Tag Archive: internet
Mar 12 2013
Cannibal Cop Found Guilty – Apparently Fantasy Has Its Limits
NYPD ex-cop Gilberto Valle has been found guilty this morning of conspiring to kidnap women and illegally using Federal databases to help him do so. Dubbed “the Cannibal Cop” Valle has tried to put forth a defense that he was just fantasizing and exploring the netherworld of the dark side of the Internet. But it …
Feb 01 2013
EA’s Lawsuit Against Zynga a Risky Game in its Own Right
Electronic Arts’ recent lawsuit against Zynga, the social media gaming company, should come with a warning label – “Rated R for Risky – Winning this lawsuit could hurt your very own business practices.” EA accuses Zynga of copying major elements from its popular “The Sims” game for Zynga’s online virtual reality game called “The Ville.” …
Nov 15 2012
A Call for Some Restraint in Making E-Mail Related Arrests
For the past five to ten years or so, emails have increasingly become the source of a myriad of criminal complaints. Today, I was able to obtain a dismissal of a charge brought against my client after it was established that the complainant had actually sent the offending emails to herself. I decided to write …
Sep 08 2012
US Film Industry Plays Both Sides of the Aisle Endorsing Both Party Platforms!
Normally Hollywood is seen as being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party (Clint Eastwood notwithstanding). So it was a bit of shocker when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued a statement praising the platform language of the Republican Party during the RNC: “The Republican Party platform language strikes a very smart …