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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
Larry Lessig REALLY Can Do Powerpoint
I've never been captured by Larry Lessig's books, but once I stumbled on some of his online speeches and Powerpoint presentations (he doesn't use Powerpoint, so I'm using that term generically), and I realized that he was a zen master of this art form (and it can truly be an art form). Here's a recent example - Lessig on McCain on Tech. (And another great (and earlier) example here). Lessig's presentation style is sometimes called the Lessig Method.
White Paper: New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Implications For Massachusetts Businesses
A white paper written by my partner Joe Laferrera -- New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Implications For Massachusetts Businesses-- is embedded below (using scribd.com). Alternatively, click on the link. New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Get your own at Scribd or explore others:
The EFF “Unintended Consequences” White Paper Update Marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the DMCA
It's easy to forget that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is really two separate laws. One protects publishers from "inadvertent" copyright infringement by creating the "notice-and-takedown" regime that requires copyright owners to demand that publishers take down copyrighted works published by third parties before asserting infringement. The other part of the DMCA is the anti-circumvention rule that generally prevents anyone from from bypassing copy protection schemes. The Electronic...
Hmmm … I Guess Two Weeks Notice is Enough
From a Department of Justice press release, November 7, 2008 - WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey issued the following statement on the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett of the Antitrust Division: "Tom Barnett has been an effective enforcer of the antitrust laws and a strong advocate for consumers. Under his leadership, the Antitrust Division has increased cartel enforcement to record levels with unprecedented fines and prison sentences, improved the...
Are Apple and IBM Competitors?
Many people knowledgeable about these two companies may be surprised to learn that IBM has persuaded a U.S. District Court judge in New York that indeed, they are competitors. The judge has enjoined Mark Papermaster, a 25-plus year employee of IBM, from working for Apple Computer. While at IBM Mr. Papermaster was a product development executive in the area of blade servers. After Apple engaged in an extensive, year-long interview process it hired Mr. Papermaster as the senior executive for...
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress: Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change. "Today the American people have made their voices heard, and they...
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