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The Insanity of Forcing Tech Companies to Pay For Linking to News
I’m sure many of you have already seen the ongoing battle between Facebook, and Google, and the Australian government. The government, mostly at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, is about to pass a law that forces the “big tech” companies to negotiate with news publishers to pay them for the content that is linked to on Google News or on Facebook.
I’m hear to argue that this is legitimately insane.
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Google Restores Web Page Critical of Scientology -this one is going to bear watching for a little while. It seems to kind of go back and forth on a daily basis. Did the sites commit copyright infringement, or are they using it for public education and therefore, fair use? I don’t know, but until someone…
Linked – Is eDiscovery Really Too Expensive?
As to “Why can’t IT or my secretary do this?” If your IT folks or your secretary has an acceptable level of expertise and experience and are provided an acceptable level of resources, then they CAN do the work.One is not able or unable to handle the challenges of dealing with ESI simply because of…

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This is mostly because it’s too difficult and/or expensive to retain SMS messages, but I have another takeaway. “In other words, only 22 percent of FOIA requestors got everything they asked for. 22 percent!” The demand for the Federal government to move this percentage higher is going to result in a lot more scrutiny of…
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