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Posts Tagged Legal

Does RSS Imply Permission To Reuse Content?

Jason Lee Miller discusses potential legal issues surrounding the aggregation and re-use of RSS feeds.
How are splogs spam blogs that are set up as aggregators of content to attract keyword-driven traffic, that publish only the headline and snippet of text, that link out to the original source, and that make money from AdSense different from [...]


36 Startup Tips: More ideas to help make your startup successful…

Following on from Yesterday’s post, ‘Great tips for starting an online business in 2008!‘, ReadWriteWeb has compiled a useful collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. The first recommendation outlines:
Tip 0: You must have code
Working code proves that a system [...]


The Video Fun is over - Universal Music sues the video networks

The end of video sharing as we know it is officially over.
Following Google’s acquisition of YouTube, several stories have come to light that suggest that the video sharing free for all has come to a close. Two of YouTube’s biggest competitors are being sued by Universal Music. YouTube has escaped this lawsuit. Just before YouTube [...]


Social networking site fined $1m for gathering children’s data

Out-law recently covered a story about Xanga, a popular USA-centric social networking site, and its fine after for disclosing details of its users who were under 13 years old:

“…Xanga had actual knowledge that they were collecting and disclosing personal information from children, said an FTC statement. The Xanga site stated that children under 13 could [...]