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Malware Might Have Played A Part In Deadly Plane Crash

August 23, 2010 16:45

OK, now it's serious.  It's one thing to lose credit card information or for your Facebook account to be high jacked, but malware is said to have been instrumental in the cause of death and destruction in the crash of a Spainair flight two years ago.  Investigators have determined that...

Facebook Opens Fire on Teachbook

August 27, 2010 15:22

Once upon a time, most schools distributed annuals or pictures, names and some personal information about students so that other students could make connections. Then Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the Harvard computers and obtained private information of students and put that into a Hot or Not...

Recent Articles

Defending Your Sensitive Information Against Hacker Attack.

Paul Stanfield
March 12, 2012 17:49

What’s a lawyer’s worst nightmare? Well, we’ve all awoke in a cold sweat at 3 am and wondered if we had missed a deadline, but near the top is the possibility that all our clients’ confidential information and our confidential and privileged communications with them become...

Common Contract Clauses We Never Think Much About, But Should.

Paul Stanfield
February 16, 2012 20:20

This is for all you contract nerds out there.  You know who you are.  You become aroused at the sight of a well crafted limitation of liability provision.  OK, then.  Well, me neither. A recent case dealt with a choice of law provision that we routinely use and routinely don't...

Anonymity On The Internet. What a Concept!

Paul Stanfield
February 02, 2012 21:43

You will recall that we have discussed a few cases regarding anonymity on the internet.  In one, which involved a potential securities scam, the court removed the anonymity from some people that were involved in the alleged scheme.  In another, the court allowed the anonymity of some...

The "Safe Harbor" Provisions of the DMCA Become Safer and More Harbory.

Paul Stanfield
January 31, 2012 22:41

Two recent decisions have provided context for the DMCA's "safe harbor" provisions and have given an expansive reading to such provisions. In the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the decision in a case called UMG v. Veoh (even though there are dozens of parties) has affirmed a district...

Austin Under 40 Awards

Luke Stanfield
January 13, 2012 23:00

The Austin Under 40 Awards  is a great local group that, in addition to raising money for local charities, nominates and awards certain Austinites that exemplify commitment to leadership in business and social awareness.  The nominations period just ended, and we are proud to have our...

Blogs That I Follow Regularly - Texas Bar Journal Edition

Paul Stanfield
January 10, 2012 17:00

For some reason, the Texas Bar Journal asked me which blogs I read on a regular basis.  I responded and lo and behold, they published it.  I should warn those blogs to stand up an additional server or two to handle the additional traffic this will generate.

Technology Contract Drafting Alert: When Do "Lost Profits" Go From Being Consequential Damages To Being General Damages?

Paul Stanfield
January 04, 2012 21:00

Let me stipulate on at the outset that this is not very sexy.  Most normal people don't care about the arcane distinction that we try to make in this post.  However, most attorneys (by definition, not normal people) that write a lot of contracts and technology providers that sign a lot of...

Who Owns Your Social Media Account? You Or Your Employer?

Paul Stanfield
December 30, 2011 19:19

Here's the situation:  You establish a Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. account while you are employed and use the account to tweet, post, blog, etc. about your employer.  Then your employer falls out of love with you and you are no longer employed.  Who owns your followers on...