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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
Bill Patry: End of Blog
In January 2007 I wrote: Bill Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google (how's that for a great job), emailed me and asked me to mention the publication of his new copyright treatise, Patry on Copyright. I like the fact that Mr. Patry said this about his 5,800-plus page, $1500 treatise: " The book is also chock full of wikipedia references, anecdotes, riffs on logic, congitive linguistics, etc. It is many books in one." Although I haven't seen this treatise yet, I hope that it is a change from...
"Honey, I’m Going to Whole Paycheck, Has Our Home Equity Loan Come Through Yet?"
"[Wild Oats] is the only existing company that has the brand and number of stores to be a meaningful springboard for another player to get into this space. Eliminating them means eliminating this threat forever, or almost forever." - John P. Mackey, co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods, in 2007 email to Whole Foods Board Member. Mr. Mackey also posted on Internet message boards under the pseudonym Rahodeb for seven years, ending in 2006 Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it...
Exploring Google Book Search
In November 2005 I wrote an article about Google Book Search and the legal efforts of copyright owners to stop Google from achieving its goal of digitizing the world's books and making them searchable on Google. The lawsuit filed by the Author's Guild described there has dragged on with little visible activity and no apparent end in sight, but in the meantime Google has been digitizing books like nobody's business. Although Google won't disclose how many books it has scanned (why is this a...
New Hampshire Federal District Court Issues Comprehensive Ruling on Communications Decency Act
"[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. ... [n]o cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section. . . . . [However this law] shall [not] be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property." Communications Decency Act ("CDA"), 47 U.S.C.
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