Saturday, April 13, 2013, by Teresa Cook A New York based comedy troop, Fortress of Attitude, is currently feuding with YouTube.com and Google over their music video “P.S. Gay Car”. The song got its lyrics directly from a note left on one of the band member’s car that used homophobia to criticize his parking job. …
Friday, April 12, 2013, by Katherine Street Electric Utility consumers typically receive service from investor-owned utility companies, electric cooperatives, or municipal electric providers. Electric utility systems consist of generation, transmission and distribution facilities, and electric utility entities may provide any or all of these functions. In the eastern part of North Carolina, the majority of …
Friday, April 12, 2013, by Michael Frongello On March 20, lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives introduced a bill that would revoke the trademarks of the NFL’s Washington Redskins franchise. The bill, codified as H.R. 1278, and titled “the Non-Disparagement of American Indians in Trademark Registrations Act of 2013”, cancels all existing “Redskins” …
Monday, April 8, 2013, by Lauren Powers A Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld a Monroe County Superior Court judge’s prohibition of a divorcing couple’s aggressive verbal attacks on each other over Facebook. The husband, James Lacy, claims that this prohibition violates his First Amendment right of free speech, particularly because he has made serious …
Saturday, April 6, 2013, by Reine Duffy When we use our computers, iPads, phones, or other devices to connect to the Internet, companies are collecting and sharing our personal data. Companies such as Facebook and Google typically store user activity information and end up sharing it with data brokers or advertising networks Indeed, when Austrian …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, by Agnieszka Zmuda Most likely wishing this was some kind of April Fools’ joke, Broadcast giants were shocked and disappointed on Monday when the federal appeals court in New York rejected their appeal, ruling in favor of the start-up web-television company, Aereo. Aereo allows its internet subscriber to stream live TV …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, by Tasneem Dharamsi Not only is the United States is a desirable place to be for individuals, but it is also a desirable place for companies to take root. In the tech world, Silicon Valley is the place to be for entrepreneurs attempting to make their fortunes. Interestingly, some of the …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, by Cara Richards Twenty-eight states and the federal government have enacted laws that provide for automatic DNA collection when an individual is arrested. The issue that arises with these types of laws is whether it is constitutional to collect DNA samples without a warrant, if the entire purpose is to compare …
Thursday, March 28, 2013, by Kaitlin Powers National groups advocating for disabilities rights assert that online websites should fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and that websites should be accessible to disabled persons in an equivalent manner to physical retail locations. While several jurisdictions have rejected the notion that websites fall within the …
Friday, March 8, 2013, by Justin Mann If a manufacturer wants to change the color of its implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, finding that patients like blue more during product demonstrations, what kind of change is this considered? What needs to be reported to the FDA? To the public? What if that same manufacturer finds a supplier with …
