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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (”EFF”) has just launched a new website to track companies’ modifications to their terms and conditions: TOSback.org.
According to an explanation on the website, TOSbackup.org was launched with the intention of increasing public awareness about online terms of service, and to help the public monitor changes to the terms of service for [...]

As the Silicon Valley IP Licensing Blog has been reporting, the Associated Press has already initiated an effort to impose its view of what constitutes fair use on the blogosphere. However, I came across today an interesting interview by Ars Technica, which offers some insight on how the Associated Press plans to go about [...]

Amazon has just released the beta of its new Kindle Publishing for Blogs, and the blogosphere is starting to react to Amazon’s new licensing terms in its terms and conditions.
What are bloggers saying? Well, the early consensus seems to be that while the concept of blog content licensing to Kindle is good, the required [...]

If you run a small business, you have probably given some thought over this recession to how you might be able to collaborate with other businesses to generate some additional revenue for your business. I know that this is definitely something that I have been thinking about for my practice, and it is something [...]

Reversing its course again for the third time in less than a month, Facebook has proposed another new set of terms and conditions and is adopting a townhall format to allow users to comment and even vote on the new changes.
CEO Mark Zuckerburg explained the new changes at the Facebook Blog as follows:
We sat down [...]

Following up on our blog posting yesterday regarding the recent controversy over a Facebook decision to amend its terms and conditions, Facebook has decided to reverse its previous decision and temporarily adopt its previous terms and conditions.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change of policy late last night, stating as follows:
Many of us [...]

Following on the heels of a 2007 controversy over its privacy and advertising policies, Facebook has now set off a new controversy on the web with its decision to amend its terms and conditions, which deal with the licensing of content posted to its site.
The provision at the heart of this controversy states as follows:
You are solely responsible for the User [...]

A posting by Kevin Smith on the Scholarly Communications @ Duke Blog explores the argument that the academic world should consider adopting the Creative Commons Licensing system for their academic works. The article got me to thinking: should the blogosphere consider adopting the same model?
Smith’s argument is that the problem with the current copyright [...]

In a recent blogpost, AdamsDrafting suggested that the recession should prompt companies to look at overhauling their contract template process.
AdamsDrafting wrote:

[A] recession should provide a greater incentive for a company to do something about the considerable amounts of time and money that it’s wasting due to its mediocre templates and primitive contract process.
I completely [...]

PlagiarismToday raised an interesting question today when it asked if blog content licensing was dead.
I have given several presentations on blog law issues now, but I must say that I had never really given thought to the issue of whether or not there was really a market for blog content licensing–beyond, of course, thinking [...]