Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission convened a public meeting to discuss the impact of social media on employment relationships. Unlike the National Labor Relations Board, which for years has been litigating disputes over how far employees can go in criticizing their employers and workplaces online, the EEOC focuses on issues of discrimination and […]
What if, instead of being a copyright infringement threat, wearable technology became copyright’s ultimate enforcement tool? Copyright enforcement will be a major challenge in the medium of augmented reality. The mass lawsuits of the past two decades against file-sharers and signal pirates have required a significant amount of detective work and discovery to connect individual […]
“This pin motivated by my desire to win fabulous prizes.” That’s the sort of disclaimer that participants in social media contests may need to start using under a March 20, 2014 letter ruling from the Federal Trade Commission. As I’ve written and presented about before, the FTC has been very strict in recent years about […]
With the steady growth of new tools for user-generated augmented reality, I’ve been fielding a ton of questions lately on whether it’s legally okay to augment particular content. In other words–if you’re not familiar with how AR works–they want to know if it’s permissible to associate certain digital content with a particular physical object (the […]