Posts Tagged: content ownership

Labor board: Facebook vent against supervisor not grounds for firing

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Description: The  National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against a Connecticut company for firing an employee after she posted critical, derogatory comments about her supervisor on Facebook. Source: CNN.com Date: Nov 10, 2010 The labor relations board argues that workers’ criticism of their bosses on social networking sites like Facebook is generally “a… Read more »

More Than 100,000 Pay for British News Site

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Description: The News Corporation said on Tuesday that it had gained 105,000 paying customers for the digital versions of The Times and The Sunday Times of London since it started charging for access to their Web sites this summer. Source: NYT.com Date: Nov 2, 2010 The company said about half of those additions were regular,… Read more »

LimeWire Told to Shut

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Description: Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” Source: WSJ.com Date: Nov 1 , 2010 “For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and Gorton have violated the law,” the RIAA said. “The court has now… Read more »