Posts under ‘web 2.0’

The popular social networking site Facebook, valued in the billions of dollars, is facing legal action brought by a plaintiff who claims to be entitled to the lion’s share of the business.  The claim alleges that Paul Ceglia paid Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to develop the site in exchange for $1,000.  The contractual agreement which [...]

Should fan fiction be permitted by copyright law?  Roland Barthes, a literary theorist set out in his essay ‘Death of the Author’ his belief that once a text has been written by an author it no longer belongs to them, but to those who read it.  As he puts it: “to give a text an [...]

By facilitating the dissemination of information to an extent far beyond any technology that has come before it, the Internet has enabled businesses to reach a global market more easily than ever before, given rise to the phenomenon of social networking, provided instant, easy access to knowledge and experience in every field, and turned connected [...]

Last week I suggested questions to ask your business lawyer.  But let’s accept it – legal isn’t as much fun as working in your business, or marketing it.  Legal stuff just isn’t sexy. So, if like millions of other entrepreneurs, you are tempted to ignore the legal stuff, or to write it off as a [...]

World Intellectual Property Day is an annual occasion held on the 26th of April, the anniversary marking the date on which the Convention establishing the Word Intellectual Property Organisation came into force in 1970. The objective of the day is fourfold: to spread awareness of the relevance of intellectual property (IP); to demonstrate the way [...]

Website design can be difficult to get right, with so many important factors to consider, and barriers to communication due to the related technical issues involved.  From the outset significant mistakes are easy to make without careful guidance, and the results are available for the public to judge.  In fact, there are websites dedicated to [...]

In January the IPKAT mentioned the new product we had developed – SEO Contract in Context system. One anonymous commenter said something to the effect that the product should be offered free.  At the time I thought this was a poor idea given the amount of work we had done to produce it.  Little did [...]

As one of Charmian Ingram’s recent pupils I was the invited speaker today at this month’s City Speakers lunch.  She had managed to secure the British Library’s Business and IP Centre as the venue, and there was a good turn out.  Charmian’s events are popular as the format of a speaker imparting some knowledge interspersed [...]

When I wrote the introduction to my proposed new book in early November Why Web 2.0 Brand Protection Requires Online Brand Promotion, I hoped to publish this chapter shortly afterwards.

In the most recent episode of the Facebook usernames-for-companies saga the organisation has reduced the eligibility requirements to 25 fans.  In our previous discussion of Facebook usernames we noted with interest the volatile minimum number of fans requirement, which initially stood at 1000, was reduced to 25, and later increased to 100.  The return to [...]