New Media Law Cast

Andrew Mirsky breaks down the latest file sharing trend and a case featuring the movie industry versus popular BitTorrent site Isohunt. The case raises new questions about BitTorrent sites liability and may provide valuable insight on how courts will evaluate future claims to protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

 
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Andrew Mirsky is joined by Liz Steininger, co-founder of Tapangi Consulting and a project manager in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia government. Andrew and Liz discuss the challenges of app development from a legal perspective, and how developers can address issues such as information sharing with clients and privacy concerns for users.

Andy Mirsky is joined by Brooke Jimenez, a student at Georgetown Law, to discuss the rise of street art and how its recently increased visibility in mainstream culture has led to new cases involving copyright infringement. Topics include defining street art and exploring what liability issues artists may face today.

While many laws protect patient information, there are fewer protections for physicians, particularly when it comes to pharmacy records. More states are now passing laws in an attempt to regulate the sale of this "prescriber-identifiable data" and data aggregators are challenging the laws in court. Andrew Mirsky is joined by John Verdi, Senior Counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to break down the recent court cases connected to this issue.

With more and more people moving music libraries from their personal computers to the cloud, companies are adapting with new business models and courts are facing tough decisions on how to handle a new era of music sharing. Andrew Mirsky and Jake Kring, co-founder of event discovery engine GetSpontaneous.com, discuss how platforms like GrooveShark and Pandora work from both a business and legal standpoint, and how services like them create new challenges for artists, record labels, and consumers.