Posts Tagged with ‘fair-use’

Do you consider your interactions on social networking sites to be private?
Amanda Hudson is suing six U.K. newspapers based on the assumption that whatever happens on Bebo (or, by extension, other social networks) should stay on Bebo after a story her 15-year-old concocted and posted to the site was picked up by several newspapers. The big problem? Hudson's daughter's story involved underaged drinking, a visit from the police, and her mother punching her, which Hudson claims never happened. That didn't [...]

The AP isn't wrong.
For some odd reason, there is a viewpoint in Web 2.0 that as long as everyone seems to be doing it, the laws should be changed, or somehow re-interpreted. High on the list of those laws that the horde is clamoring to overturn are those dealing with copyright infringement and libel.
The issues regarding copyright and fair use rear their collective head fairly regularly when it comes to online content, with the music industry as well as the [...]

Odds are, if you are on Facebook, you've played at least part of a game of Scrabulous, a virtual duplicate of the popular board game Scrabble® that currently resides on a list of the top 10 applications installed on Facebook.
I've played several games, most with my Profy colleage Leslie Poston, but from the first moment I saw it, I wondered how long it would be until I saw a takedown notice. Scrabulous is not licensed in any way, shape, or [...]