On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Pinterest emailed users to say it was updating its Terms of Service. Make no mistake – this is a pretty significant re-write, and kudos to Pinterest for making both sets readily available so we can compare and contrast them. The “proposed” terms come into effect on April 6, 2012 and [...]
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Pinterest’s New Terms Expand Indemnity, Ban Commercial Use, Prevent Users Suing Cold Brew Labs
March 25th, 2012 
Gareth Dickson 
Posted in copyright, North America, social media, UK and Europe, vront 
Tags: copyright, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, Pinterest, second circuit 
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Help Us, Copyright; You’re Our Only Hope!
September 15th, 2011 Gareth Dickson As any celebrity – and certain governments and law firms – will tell you, there are risks as well as benefits in being connected to publicly accessible networks. Individuals and collectives such as Wikileaks, Anonymous and LulzSec have embarrassed the US government, the law firm ACS:Law, and now Scarlett Johannson and Jessica Alba by exposing [...]
Posted in copyright, North America, privacy, social media, UK and Europe, vront Tags: copyright, data protection, DMCA, Internet, jurisdiction, photographs, privacy No Comments »Star Wars appeal heard by UK Supreme Court
April 27th, 2011 Gareth Dickson Despite a flurry of comments about epic (even intergalactic) battles between good and evil, Lucasfilm’s copyright appeal against prop designer Andrew Ainsworth has been heard by the UK Supreme Court with very little media coverage. So, in case you missed it, here’s the scoop.
Posted in copyright, North America, UK and Europe Tags: appeals, copyright, Internet, jurisdiction, justiciability 1 Comment »