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Legal Geekery Roundup for 12.2.2011

by Joshua Auriemma December 2, 2011 News
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The Copyright Office recently sought submissions for new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The EFF yesterday filed a comment with the Office seeking an extension of last year’s exceptions for phones and remix videos, and urged that the Office expand its protection to the jailbreaking of smartphones, electronic tablets, and game consoles. Hypothetically, [...]

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Legal Geekery Roundup for 11.11.2011

by Joshua Auriemma November 11, 2011 News
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Justice Stevens defends his Kelo opinion while simultaneously criticizing Justice O’Connor for alleged inconsistencies in her dissenting opinion. If you play video games on your computer, it’s likely that your personal information, and maybe your credit card, were compromised in the recent Steam hacking. Lifehacker has some tips on what you should do if you [...]

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Legal Geekery Roundup for 11.09.2011

by Joshua Auriemma November 9, 2011 News

Wired begins licensing photographs taken by its staff with Creative Commons licenses. Adobe announces that it will be officially killing off Flash Player for mobile devices. Forces iOS competitors to lose the snarky site redirects. Stanford CIS reviews the Digital Advertising Alliance’s recently announced supplementary set of self-regularory principles for third parties on the web. [...]

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Think Adobe’s Acquisition of EchoSign Means Easy Digital Signatures? Not So Fast.

by Joshua Auriemma July 21, 2011 News
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Most of us [legal geeks] dream about a day where we’re presented with a minimalist solution to electronically signing documents. Adobe’s recent acquisition of electronic signature company EchoSign was rumored to be the beginning of just such a scenario. Adobe is allegedly gearing up to integrate the technology into Adobe Reader—and in the not-too-distant future. [...]

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Is This Face Subject to Copyright?

by Joshua Auriemma July 19, 2011 News
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There’s been a lot of chatter on the internet lately about the above picture. For the uninitiated, this is a picture of an Indonesian macaque monkey. “What’s the big deal,” you may be asking yourself, “it’s just a National Geographic looking picture of a monkey.” The big deal, friend, is that the monkey itself took [...]

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Apple is About to Kill Text Messaging

by Joshua Auriemma June 6, 2011 News
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Editor’s note: For two months now I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get the following editorial published under the working title, “Time For Apple to Kill Text Messaging.” Today at WWDC, Apple scooped me and announced a BBM-like app. If done properly, I firmly believe this is the beginning of the end for text messaging. [...]

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Are You a Student in the Market for a Mac? Hold Off.

by Joshua Auriemma May 27, 2011 Law School
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Just a quick note to our law student readers in the market for a new Mac: BGR reports that credible sources say Apple’s yearly back-to-school special may be $200 off the purchase price of an iPad (with the purchase of a new Mac). Even if you’re not interested in an iPad, the buyer market is still [...]

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US Senators Ask Apple/Android/Blackberry to Remove DUI Checkpoint Apps

by Joshua Auriemma March 24, 2011 News
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In a letter to Eric Schmidt (Google), James Balsillie (RIM), Michael Lazaridis (RIM), and Scott Forstall (Apple), Senators Reid (D–NV), Schumer (D–NY), Lautenberg (D–NJ), and Udall (D–NM) have urged the smartphone industry to ban smartphone apps designed to alert users to local DUI checkpoints. The law behind DUI checkpoints can be tricky, and it’s not an [...]

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Epic Warner Bros. Attorney Letter to Charlie Sheen

by Joshua Auriemma March 8, 2011 News

Whatever you do in this life, unless your name is John W. Spiegel and you work at Munger, Tolles & Olson, you haven’t had the opportunity to lay down the most epic of all public smackdowns in recent history. This letter, posted on TMZ,1 calls out Sheen’s recent behavior in a hilariously not-so-subtle fashion, which [...]

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