The business of Internet, wireless, and telecom law.
The Football v YouTube action was reported immediately by Reuters on May 4, 2007. In a new twist, the plaintiffs created a web site specifically for the lawsuit. The plaintiffs in the case are England’s soccer club Football Association Premier League Ltd and the Bourne Company, an indie music producer. The suit alleged that YouTube willfully and deliberately encouraged copyright violations [...]
Although reported today by the New York Times as a “Setback” for Verizon v Vonage, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District denied in its May 3, 2007 order Vonage’s May 1, 2007 motion for a new trial based on the recent April 30, 2007 Supreme Court opinion in KSR v. Teleflex. KSR [...]
Every day we run to win. Today in Boston Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:14. If you take a look at this photo you can see the Robert Cheruiyot with the #1 in orange shirt at mile 23 in on Beacon Street in Brookline with 1:58 into the race by [...]
A recent copyright case held that Cablevision would violate the rights of the content producers if Cablevision allowed its customers to store the video remotely in a “Remote Storage DVR System” (“RS-DVR”) which is basically at TiVo located outside the house. The U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY found for Twentieth Century Fox Film [...]
Last week at David Isenberg’s excellent Freedom to Connect Conference, former FCC Commissioner Reed Hundt announced the proposal of his company, Frontline Wireless, to solve the problem faced by public safety. The proposal, the Public Safety Broadband Deployment Plan, calls for establishing a nationwide public safety “network” build by private companies. The under the plan, the [...]
