Good Contract > No Contract > Bad Contract (Part 2)
Drawing Lessons from ICG Link v. Steen In my Friday post, we looked at the facts and holding of the October 31, 2011 appellate decision in ICG Link v. Steen. Recall that both parties thought they had entered a contract for ICG Link to build Steen’s company, Nashville...
Good Contract > No Contract > Bad Contract (Part 1)
And Why Website Deals Are Such a Pain We at Aaron & Sanders, PLLC, like to talk about how exciting technology law is, how dynamic and rapidly evolving it is; how complex, confusing and counter-intuitive it is; and most of all how it can dominate whole industries....
Good Contract > No Contract > Bad Contract (Part 1)
And Why Website Deals Are Such a Pain We at Aaron & Sanders, PLLC, like to talk about how exciting technology law is, how dynamic and rapidly evolving it is; how complex, confusing and counter-intuitive it is; and most of all how it can dominate whole industries....
Good Contract > No Contract > Bad Contract (Part 1)
And Why Website Deals Are Such a Pain We at Aaron & Sanders, PLLC, like to talk about how exciting technology law is, how dynamic and rapidly evolving it is; how complex, confusing and counter-intuitive it is; and most of all how it can dominate whole industries....
Copyright: Is it Fair Use? Elf On! Elf Off!
Or, the Elf Done Gone. Welcome to another edition of Is it Fair Use? the game in which I present the facts and you take a blind stab at whether the court found fair use. Judges clearly live for parody cases. Remember how much fun the judge had in the “What What (in...
Rick to Lecture at Colorado University Law School
Rick is giving a lecture on online music services and copyright law, entitled "Will Consumers Ever Get What They Want from Online Music Services? How Copyright Law Creates and Impedes Five Types of Online Music Services," tomorrow, October 26, 2011, at Colorado...
ReDigi: A Digital Secondary Market (Part 15 of Our Online Music Services Series)
Can ReDigi Take Advantage of the First Sale Doctrine? When I first contemplated this Online Music Services Series, I decided not to discuss Apple’s iTunes Store service or similar services because (1) they weren’t new, and (2) the relevant law was pretty boring. While...
Tara Aaron presents in Berlin, Germany on U.S. IP Law and Social Media
Tara was thrilled to participate as a speaker at a gathering of copyright, trademark, and technology lawyers at the German Patent and Trademark Office in Berlin, Germany on October 10, 2011 to talk about "Trademarks and Copyrighted Content in Social Media." The...
Copyright: Is it Fair Use? What What (in the Butt) vs. South Park
Welcome to Our Second Episode of "Is it Fair Use?" This opinion by Judge J.D. Stadtmueller in Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners is pretty close to priceless, dealing, as it does, with South Park’s send-up of the notorious “What What (in the Butt)” viral video...
On the Death of Steve Jobs: A Visionary (Sort of) for Our Times
Why I've Admired Steve Jobs Since 1980 When Steve Jobs passed away last week, it felt almost (but not quite) like a death in the family. It’s a little hard to explain why. Sure, I’ve been using Apple products since around 1980 (I can’t remember the exact year my dad...
Spy Kids Do Spying and Help Clarify Tennessee Privacy Law
And the World of Internet-Privacy Law Is a +.01% Better Place As we saw last time, Tennessee has recognized “intrusion upon seclusion,” a flavor of invasion of privacy, since at least 2002, but until now, the cases had been so unusual that we didn’t know very much...
How a Weird Child-Custody Case Will Affect Internet Privacy in Tennessee
Or, How One Really Bad Idea Helped Clarify Tennessee Privacy Law Burnette v. Porter is about as non-technological a case as you’ll find. The Internet plays a minor role, which mostly just shows how ubiquitous the internet has become in our everyday lives. The decision...
