Tech Law
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Creative Uses of Office for Mac
The folks at Microsoft’s MacBU have taken some heat for this (as the decision to develop and promote a community site for innovative Excel, Word and PowerPoint documents when Office 2008 is, well, late). Some cool examples nonetheless. What would Professor Lessig say about the copyright to these examples… www.artofoffice.com Continue reading
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Document Retention Policies
As more information is stored electronically, producing that information for the purposes of litigation creates challenges and perils for companies. In the U.S., new rules governing the retention and production of electronically stored information (“ESI”) went into effect in December, 2006, rules that impose obligations for record retention. http://www.masslawblog.com/?p=122 http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3642421 https://www.lexisnexis.com/applieddiscovery/lawlibrary/whitePapers/ADI_WP_ElementsOfAGoodDocRetentionPolicy.pdf Continue reading
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Turnitin Case
Technology presents all manner of new challanges for copyright law… Turnitin is a Web-based tool to allow educators to check the originality of student’s work — it does block text comparisons of papers against its database to find exact or too-close matches. Problem is (from an IP law standpoint) is that students have a copyright… Continue reading