This is an important victory for Viacom and the rule of law. Another court has firmly rejected Google's continuing claims that Internet innovation Will Just Die unless Google can legally build content-distribution business knowingly or intentionally based on the "copyright piracy on a commercial scale that the World Trade Organization [...]
There was a Ted Talk by Rob Reid recently posted titled The $8 Billion iPod. His talk attached some pretty remarkable figures to the economic cost of copyright infringement. Unfortunately, this was simply an attempt to confuse consumer and commercial piracy. No consumer has ever been sued for having unauthorized [...]
Today we've seen major news coverage about the Administration's blog post on the new Privacy Bill of Rights, and the fact that one of the first areas to be covered is mobile apps. As we all know, mobile apps are developed by small companies, without armies of lawyers or privacy [...]
Our friends at TechNet and Rey Ramsey have published some interesting findings on the app economy. In a newly released study, TechNet found that the app marketplace has created 466,000 new jobs. TechNet came by this figure through a comprehensive analysis of want ads for app developers combined with a [...]
ACT European members Damir Tomicic, Michael Setton, and Daniel Doll-Steinbergwere featured in today's Financial Times piece on entrepreneurs and the status of patent reform in Europe. The agreement (or lack thereof) on the single patent system is starting to resemble an eternal saga, a constant “déjà vu” in which national [...]