Yearly Archives: 2015

While it has never topped the charts of the Billboard 100, the Happy Birthday song is arguably one of the most popular songs, if not the most popular song, in history. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it as the most frequently sung in the English language, accompanying other ...

The European Commission has stated that transforming the EU into a single digital market — that is, removing barriers to the free flow of online services — would contribute €415 billion per year to the economy and create hundreds of thousands of new job opportunities. For now, the existing online barriers ...

Some crucial privacy questions about the use of neuroscience in criminal courts may be headed our way. And before the tryptophan hits, the Thanksgiving dinner table might be just the forum to gather the likely myriad perspectives on the matter. Are our brains due more privacy consideration than our bodies? ...

“Go green” is a common expression to refer to the use of eco-friendly products. The basic idea of this expression is to encourage companies and consumers to conserve and protect the environment by changing their current practices or applying new ones that conserve natural resources, reduce waste, protect ecosystems and ...

In October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated a European Commission ruling from 2000 and held that the “Safe Harbor Privacy Principles” were insufficient in providing Europeans their privacy rights under EU law. Leading up to this decision, the “Safe Harbor Privacy Principles” had been exploited to ...

By: Jaideep Reddy On September 14, 2015, the Ninth Circuit in Lenz v. Universal Music laid down the legal standard that copyright holders must meet before issuing takedown notices. Given the scale of online video generation and consumption, this is significant for content generators and copyright holders. Frivolous takedown notices ...

On October 22, 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a proposal recommending the enforcement of current aircraft registration laws on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. The proposal comes at a time when the public, with its growing acceptance of drones, is pressuring the FAA to relax ...

Reverse payment settlements exist at the intersection among antitrust, patent and healthcare laws. Also known as pay-for-delay agreements, these occur when a patent holder agrees to pay a potential patent infringer to settle litigation and delay its entrance to the market. The payment is called a reverse one because, in the ...

The 2004 decision in Center for Democracy and Technology v. Pappert sheds light on the complications surrounding the use of technology to reduce the consumption of child pornography today. Government filtering as a mechanism to combat child pornography In 2003, the plaintiffs in Pappert – the Center for Democracy and ...

By: Jaideep Reddy “These days a developer will do a Google search, find five open-source products that fit his[/her] need and the next thing you know one of them is in a product.” – Phil Robb. Because open source code presents such a valuable resource for programmers, for-profit companies regularly ...