Internet Law & Computer Issues
January 22, 2015 By david@net-law.com
Buzzfeed delivered a stern message to writers everywhere when they fired their political editor, Benny Johnson, in 2014. While Johnson was at one point among Buzzfeed’s most celebrated political contributors, they were left with no choice but to terminate their contract with him after allegations of plagiarism were discovered. What began as accusations of Internet […]
January 20, 2015 By david@net-law.com
The Internet is a revolution, Over 50 million users access the Internet worldwide of which 37 million are from United States and Canada. With such prevailing numbers can copyright law protect authors in a world that makes its own rules? In addition, even if the fair use doctrine and the implied license defenses to infringement […]
January 20, 2015 By david@net-law.com
A working group of legal scholars has recommended several means to protect copyright infringement on the Internet. The working groups recommendations are as follows: (1) Distribution by transmission- means that the section 106(2) right of an author to distribute should include “by transmission”. By including “by transmission” the copyright statute would be specifically including, beyond the […]
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