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What A 3D Printed Assault Rifle Means For Safety, Copyright

A firearm enthusiast believes he may have been the first to test a 3D-printed gun assembly, which he has used to build and fire a pistol and assault rifle.

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RIAA, ICE Shutdown Of Hip Hop Blog Further Implodes After Documents Are Unsealed

In a development that crystallizes tension between entertainment industry anti-piracy measures and the ecosystem of online businesses – and raises questions about whether it is appropriate for trade groups like.

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Microsoft Sends Open Source Skype Developers DMCA Takedown (And It’s Not Their First)

Microsoft has sent a series of takedown notices to a team of independent developers working to reverse engineer the company’s video chat service Skype

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Do You Still Own Stuff You Upload To Google Drive?

Fresh on the heels of Google‘s Dropbox-like remote storage service, Google Drive, is a furor over what the fine print in the service’s user agreement means for users’ intellectual property.

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Court Reverses Pro-YouTube Ruling

In a setback for Google, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed a former ruling in favor of YouTube, a popular video sharing site owned by the web.

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Opt-Out of Pinterest: Problem Solved or Created?

Pinterest, everyone’s favorite new social network, is making some changes this week that allow websites to opt-out of having their images pinned. Pinterest recently updated their help section and included.

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Some Love For The DMCA

I’m not one to favor the stifling of creativity and social advancement, but as a lawyer to uses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to protect his clients, I think.

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May it Please the Court, I Represent the New York Times

Nope, that’s not true at all. I don’t. I don’t even live in New York. But, when Lindsay ONeal suggested that I write a post about this lengthy editorial on.

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Pin This! Copyrights and the Internet 101

Following up on this week’s article on Hackerest (an interesting trademark issue, by the way), I thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at the copyright law implications.

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