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Privacy and personal data security - the new litigation frontier?

Raymond Nimmer

October 11, 2008 17:22

Widespread adoption of rules regarding security of personally identifiable information has been paralleled by a surge of class-action litigation against companies whose databases have been breached. They are a potential target beyond modern parallel. This setting potentially offers class...

Privacy and personal data security - the new litigation frontier?

Raymond Nimmer

October 11, 2008 17:16

Widespread adoption of rules regarding security of personally identifiable information has been paralleled by a surge of class-action litigation against companies whose databases have been breached. They are a potential target beyond modern parallel. This setting potentially offers class...

Copyright content providers lose control of a DVR market to cable companies.

Raymond Nimmer

September 07, 2008 00:49

Who should derive revenue from remote DVR systems? According to a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Cartoons case, the revenue should not go to the content providers. This decision, grounded in three very narrow interpretations of the...Who should derive revenue from remote DVR...

Copyright content providers lose control of a DVR market to cable companies.

Raymond Nimmer

September 06, 2008 23:51

Who should derive revenue from remote DVR systems?  According to a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Cartoons case, the revenue should not go to the content providers.  This decision, grounded in three very narrow interpretations of the Copyright Act, works a shift of...

Some courts are getting fair use analyses about transformative works wrong

Raymond Nimmer

August 29, 2008 20:46

Some courts mistakenly view transformative use as merely using a work in a way different from that which the copyright owner currently does. The true meaning is that transformative use is a use that transforms portions of the original into...Some courts mistakenly view transformative use as merely...