Who carries your Web 2.0 banner?

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »

What's at stake when you let others step in your online footprint? I wrote here about the possibility of something resembling agency through social networking / Web 2.0 / user-created content a short time ago.  I am now in the fortunate ...

Does WOM or Social Network Marketing Create Agency?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 4 Comments »

We are now near the end of January, and I realize it has been a little while since my last post.  Before leaving LexisNexis, I prepared a proposal, formatted as a white paper, for a position specializing in information management.  ...

What would you call open-source marketing?

Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 5 Comments »

President-Elect Barack Obama raised $264.5M through April 30, 2008, thrice that raised by his opponent, Senator John McCain. Studies at the FEC, The Campaign Finance Institute, The Center for Responsive Politics , George Washington University, indicate that a massive ...

Are there benefits to “piracy”?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games | 1 Comment »

The pro-copyright, pro-DMCA, anti-counterfeit lobby groups would have you believe that all unauthorized reproduction (and distribution), colloquially known (inaccurately) as piracy, is horrid for the industries concerned, and is destroying them.  They go so far as to call it theft, ...

Competition and the NHL

Monday, October 20th, 2008 Posted in Business Law | 4 Comments »

It's hockey season, and that's the reason for the poll that's been on the sidebar.  However, a reader asked me to open it up for discussion (i.e. put it into a post) so that's what I'm doing. The issue is this:  ...

Is there a Master Chef at Bell?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Privacy | No Comments »

Bell has been busted for Internet throttling.  (CBC story here.)  No news there.  The news is that they’ve been told to back up their congestion claim with numbers.  (CBC story here.)  Expect some creative accounting of traffic dynamics ...

Selling your Everything II: More on non-competition clauses, IP assignments/waivers, and employment contracts

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on the subject of over-reaching employment contracts. Click here for it. Anyway, I promised that I would have the next part up within days and well, it's been kind of crazy. Between ...

Tazzu Wordpress Camp feed

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 1 Comment »

Password is tazzu-test. If it doesn't work, go to www.justin.tv/jeremycostin Watch live video from Tazzu Wordpress Camp on Justin.tv

How to make the Massive Tech Show into a massive tech show

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Privacy, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »

I've been critical of the Vancouver Massive Tech Show both here and on Tazzu. I've branded it as boring, uninspired, a waste of an afternoon, and anything but either massive or a show. I've been challenged to propose something better, ...

Microsoft’s Ironic Poker Game: But are they bluffing this time?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »

Back in February, Network World ran a story that Linus Torvalds, inventor of the Linux operating system and guru of the Linux kernel, believes that Microsoft is bluffing in its threat to sue for patent infringement. NW quotes Torvals ...