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May 21, 2010
In the early days of the internet when the web was like a small village which has just one bread shop, one toy shop or one other type of store, it was understandable that businesses were drawn to names like toys.com or books.com...
June 2, 2010
Recent online campaigns by Facebook users, such as ‘Quit Facebook Day’ illustrates the uneasiness and increasing lack of trust of Facebook as a custodian of people’s private lives. At the end of April this year four...
June 14, 2010
Last week I suggested questions to ask your business lawyer. But let’s accept it – legal isn’t as much fun as working in your business, or marketing it. Legal stuff just isn’t sexy.
June 21, 2010
By facilitating the dissemination of information to an extent far beyond any technology that has come before it, the Internet has enabled businesses to reach a global market more easily than ever before, given rise to the phenomenon...
June 28, 2010
Some time ago Coca Cola registered COKE as a trade mark for soft drinks both in the UK and USA.
So, I was interested to hear from my daughter that the term ‘coke’ is commonly used as a general reference to fizzy drinks...
June 30, 2010
Should fan fiction be permitted by copyright law? Roland Barthes, a literary theorist set out in his essay ‘Death of the Author’ his belief that once a text has been written by an author it no longer belongs to...
July 2, 2010
In business, as in life, we are constantly assessing and managing risks. One of the most important risks to avoid is that of choosing your brand name without doing some very careful searches.
I know this from...
July 5, 2010
At the beginning of last week alleged Russian spies were charged in a US court. Are we going to see James Bond back with the femme fatales and the echoes of the cold war? Officially, US-Russian relations were remarkably warm this...
July 7, 2010
Last week nine websites that allowed people to download or stream TV programmes and films for free were closed down (see here), their domains seized by the US federal government. These sites included tvshack.net, Movies-Links.tv,...
July 15, 2010
Before considering what start ups require from their lawyers, it’s worth remembering that many businesses tend to change radically in the early years. A few years after starting up, they may look nothing like their initial...
July 19, 2010
In view of the controversy surrounding not only its contents, but the way in which it was passed, we had written on the recent Digital Economy Act in an earlier post. In this post I would like to focus not on the broader policy...
The popular social networking site Facebook, valued in the billions of dollars, is facing legal action brought by a plaintiff who claims to be entitled to the lion’s share of the business. The claim alleges that Paul Ceglia...
