Could Fake Steve Jobs Go to Jail?
Online impersonators could be fined up to $1,000 and/or up to one year in jail according to California Senate Bill 1411, which Governor Schwarzenegger has just signed into law. The new law is meant to protect victims of cyberbullying, malicious impersonation – says Senator Joe Simitian, the Bill’s author on his homepage: “E-personation,” said Simitian, [...]
The right to Forget Law being pondered in France
Of course this is going to upset law enforcement, but in light of the hot topic of the weekend, how companies like Facebook and Google manage users privacy, maybe France might be on the right side of consumers for a change. France is not known for being particularly aggressive or progressive when it comes to [...]
DMCA Take Downs, Copyright, Fair Use
(Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from Dan’s book, Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere) One other thing you will learn on the internet is copyright, fair use, and how you can use pictures, quote text, link to articles, use old media as a source, and a ton of other things that can cause [...]
