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New York City Businesses Finally Get City Government to Heed Call for Startup Capital
May 27, 2010 – 5:13 pm | No Comment
New York City Businesses Finally Get City Government to Heed Call for Startup Capital

Just one day ago Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday the launch of a city funded sponsored early-stage investment fund.  And as this site has been advocating for some time by discussing high tech tax …

California Video Game Statute Case Gets an Add On Pack via a Supreme Court Review
April 26, 2010 – 6:10 am | No Comment
California Video Game Statute Case Gets an Add On Pack via a Supreme Court Review

The Supreme Court has decided to hear Entertainment Software Association v. Schwartzenegger, the top charting violence in video games case. In the previous version, the Ninth Circuit terminated the Governator’s statute like a main boss …

The Motion Pictures Futures Market May Be Just Around NYMEX’s Corner
April 16, 2010 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
The Motion Pictures Futures Market May Be Just Around NYMEX’s Corner

Variety Reports that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission has greenlighted a plan that should appeal to the big risk takers in the room.  A new exchange specifically for the trading of film futures is likely …

Live from New York, it’s Social Media Friday, Ethics for Blawgs Edition
April 16, 2010 – 2:02 pm | No Comment
Live from New York, it’s Social Media Friday, Ethics for Blawgs Edition

We’ve over the past weeks, seen a couple of the shiny law bloggers adding sparkle to social media.  From focused analysis to legal humor, each attorney and firm has brought the profession closer to the …

The Legality of Creating Big Movie Knock Offs
April 14, 2010 – 8:52 am | One Comment
The Legality of Creating Big Movie Knock Offs

Knock offs are nothing new in the fashion world and frankly not in the film world either. For almost the entire glorious history of cinema, smaller, less artistically ambitious B films have thrilled …

New York Times Provides Map of Mobile Patent Wars
April 14, 2010 – 7:45 am | No Comment
New York Times Provides Map of Mobile Patent Wars

For anyone with an “i” anything product, which in New York is one out of three people, you are aware that there are many established companies/businesses and startups all vying for your precious mobile dollars.  …

New York Entrepreneur Week is On Now!
April 12, 2010 – 3:52 pm | No Comment
New York Entrepreneur Week is On Now!

It’s a great opportunity to meet and connect with people and know how.  http://www.nyew.org/

Google Finally Can Support NY Federal Judge’s Common Sense
April 12, 2010 – 9:06 am | No Comment
Google Finally Can Support NY Federal Judge’s Common Sense

It took an appellate court to make clear that a judge who used Google to support his intuition in a ruling was not in violation of federal procedural rules and law.   Southern District of New …

Apple iPhone OS 4 Reminds Us that Developers in New York and Elsewhere Must Understand Dev Agreements
April 9, 2010 – 8:08 am | No Comment
Apple iPhone OS 4 Reminds Us that Developers in New York and Elsewhere Must Understand Dev Agreements

The legal landscape for developers (mobile and otherwise) is as much shaped by submission guidelines for mobile OS platforms as any other legal document.  And Apple’s guidelines are notorious for being applied in a less …

NY Lawsuit–Authors versus Google Part Two: the Final Visual Apocalypse?
April 8, 2010 – 12:25 pm | No Comment
NY Lawsuit–Authors versus Google Part Two: the Final Visual Apocalypse?

Waiting like a hungry panther in the night, visual artists (primarily photographers [Plaintiffs include: American Society of Media Photographers, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Nature Photography Association …

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