Archive for the ‘Law’ Category

Cease and Desist letter from Amazon / dpreview

My recent post about the Canon EOS 7D caused a bit of controversy on the Internet and it is not surprising considering that in that post I’m essentially showing that the EOS 7D, Canon’s supposedly latest and greatest APS-C sensor camera body, is offering worse image quality compared to the two year older model, the [...]

Canon tries to take down Fake Chuck Westfall blog

Canon has sunken to a new low in trying to take down the blog of Fake Chuck Westfall, a parody of the real Chuck Westfall who is the Technical Information Advisor at Canon USA. The shut down notice posted on the blog contains all the details, including the letter from law firm Loeb & Loeb, [...]

Dan Heller on Creative Commons licenses

Photographer Dan Heller is sending shockwaves around the Internet with his recent series of blog postings about the Creative Commons licensing model in relation to photography. Highly insightful reading material. Thinking about using a picture with a Creative Commons (CC) license? Thinking about putting up your own pictures online under a CC license? Be sure [...]

Law and Technology

Internet lawyer and European patent attorney Arnoud Engelfriet (blog) has a very interesting website called Ius Mentis where he has a wealth of information about law as it relates to technology. Everything is explained in a way that makes it very easy to understand, often including examples you can quickly relate to. It’s well worth [...]