Should employees be paid for the time they spend in line undergoing anti-theft searches at the end of a shift? An employee of an Amazon warehouse is leading an important test… Read more »
What are the most important legal cases in tech? Here are three cases going before the Supreme Court this fall, plus a view of 5 other issues coming down the pike. Read more »
Patent reform failed in Congress this year but a spec of hope has arrived in the form of a spate of court decisions in which courts are deciding that so-called inventions… Read more »
Aereo’s greatest utility was the ability to watch must-see live TV on a phone or tablet in more or less real time, but that type of content makes up only a… Read more »
The Copyright Office this week revealed the amount of royalties that Aereo submitted for a nearly two-year period. The figure may provide the best guess yet to the size of the… Read more »
The Supreme Court refused to hear Google’s appeal of a lower court’s finding that the data it collected from unsecured WiFi networks amounted to a violation of the Wiretap Act. Read more »
Eccentric billionaire Alki David just relaunched a streaming service that he says is a legal version of Aereo’s service that was just shut down by the Supreme Court. He will have… Read more »
Aereo bowed to the inevitable on Saturday morning, telling subscribers that’s pulling the plug at 11:30ET on its revolutionary service that rented consumers mini-antennas and DVR’s to watch over-the-air TV. Read more »
The Aereo opinion throws a cloud over Cablevision without actually grappling with what many legal scholars and lower court judges have identified as the critical legal weakness in the Second Circuit’s… Read more »
The Aereo holding itself was questionable, but the broader opinion opened the door to some even bigger questions about the legality of DVRs. Could the spate of copyright lawsuits cease if… Read more »