Bandwidth Management to Keep Copyright Police Away
December 9, 2003
It’s said that a non-trivial portion of the Internet bandwidth consumed by businesses is taken up by illegal employee downloading of music and video files. This ComputerWorld column suggests that businesses can reduce their risks of being targeted by the record industry, video industry, etc. — and reduce costs too — by deploying bandwidth-management software:
How Much Would Actual Subscriptions Have Cost?
October 13, 2003
MSNBC reported last week that money-management firm Legg Mason was hit with a $20 million jury verdict for copyright infringement, for internally distributing a stock-market newsletter when they had only paid for a single subscription. Thanks to TechLawAdvisor for the tip.
P—d Off
October 12, 2003
Natural Biologics LLC really knows how to p–s off a federal judge (bad pun intended). Earlier this month, the judge seriously hammered Natural Biologics for misappropriating trade secrets relating to the processing of horse urine. She hit Natural Biologics even harder than usual, essentially putting them out of the business – and for somewhat unusual reasons.
Will Your PPT Slides’ Footer Help Lose a Lawsuit Too?
October 1, 2003
Last week a court poured out * Storage Technology’s corporate-raiding lawsuit against Cisco. One of the nails in the coffin was the way that Storage Tech had protected — or more accurately, failed to protect — the alleged trade secrets that Cisco had supposedly misappropriated. While that alone didn’t lose the case for Storage Tech, it didn’t help, and it likely has triggered some internal recriminations at Storage Tech.
* When a lawsuit is “poured out,” it generally means the lawsuit was dismissed, in this case, by the granting of summary judgment.
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