Sometimes secretive websites don’t keep their secrets very well. That’s certainly true of the Ashley Madison site, which is now a famous (infamous) site that connects those interested in infidelity with other like-minded people that was hacked. So what did its owner, Avid Life Media, do when its customers’ data was leaked on the Internet? […]
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Paying for Happy Birthday
Yes, the “Happy Birthday” song has been around for a while. And yes, until very recently, if you wanted to sing it and play the music for a commercial purpose you had to pay $$ for the privilege. Warner/Chappell music was raking in the dough for that ubiquitous song for decades, until now. In a […]
Prince’s Dancing Babies
Did you ever think that you’d get in trouble for playing one of your favorite songs? Stephanie Lenz didn’t. But then she put a 29 second video clip of her son on YouTube, and it had Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” song playing in the background. And then Universal Music called her a big ole’ copyright […]
Akamai and McKesson, a divided court on divided infringement — Cloudigy PodBlasts, Episode No. 2
In this podcast, Antigone Peyton and Matt Levy discuss the Federal Circuit’s recent decision in the Akamai and McKesson cases. The court was supposed to be deciding what the rule should be when different parties perform the steps of a patented method. That’s not what happened, though, and the court was closely divided about […]
How Social Media Can Tank a Litigation
Savvy litigators care about social media. Or at least they should care about social media. From employment to criminal cases, popular media coverage and court opinions have already demonstrated that social media may be relevant in a wide variety of litigations. The value of social media as a tool in the evidence arsenal is becoming […]
Oracle v. Google
Welcome to our very first Cloudigy PodBlast! In this podcast, Antigone Peyton and Matt Levy discuss the recent Oracle v. Google case and how Judge Alsup’s decision that APIs aren’t copyrightable is likely to affect the software industry.