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"The sheer audacity of this hacker to crack into President Obama's account shows that hackers love the thrill of the hack, the possibility to delve into something forbidden," Washington, D.C., technology attorney Raymond Van Dyke told TechNewsWorld "Hackers love the thrill of ...

On the other hand, "Viacom makes a strong showing for pervasive and rampant copyright infringement," Raymond Van Dyke, a copyright attorney in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times. "Viacom's summary judgment motion includes supposedly lost emails and other information demonstrating the mood at YouTube to allow anything, intellectual property be damned." ...

"Whenever hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, appeals will most likely be made," Merchant & Gould partner Raymond Van Dyke told the E-Commerce Times. "Here, Judge Rader dissented, and Dish has asked for an en banc ruling, hoping that other judges will agree with Judge Rader."TiVo, meanwhile -- "flush with victory against Dish -- plans to ride that wave in further lawsuits," Van Dyke noted. "However, different technologies may well fall outside the TiVo patents."

Google's going to appeal this with every ounce of torque in its legal engine, and it seems to be getting a lot of support from stateside legal experts as well as pretty much any Web company that hosts content of any kind. The ruling introduces the idea that an employee of a hosting platform can be held criminally liable for objectionable content that users upload. Merchant & Gould's Raymond Van Dyke told us, "Holding Internet Service Providers criminally liable for all postings, despite a vigorous notice and takedown procedure, is astonishing," and added that the EU is probably disgusted with the ruling and ought to do whatever it can to challenge it...

The Italian government, and particularly Prime Minister Berlusconi, "considers the unfettered Internet a threat, both societally and commercially," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told TechNewsWorld "Berlusconi wants everyone who regularly uploads video and...

Jacobsen is "the little engine that could protect his intellectual property," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told LinuxInsider. The case is "most likely the first of many cases on this issue, elucidating the law in a new area," he added.

In general, "privacy is under siege in all aspects of life," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told TechNewsWorld. "Although the Supreme Court has said that students in school have reduced rights, people in their own home have considerable constitutional rights regarding privacy."

What Google is trying to do is appeal to the Judge on a more abstract level, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times "By claiming that the purpose of copyright law is to promote the creation, as well as the distribution, of expressive works...

Essentially, the Department of Justice is still concerned about the property rights of so-called orphan works -- books whose ownership or status is still in question, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. It also doesn't like the opt-ou...

"Naturally, should every country in the European Union -- and the rest of the world -- all implement their own "small percentage" tax extraction, Internet commerce, content and creativity will be curtailed," Raymond Van Dyke, partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. "Content owners must be protected, but direct government subsidies [through taxation] is a dubious means of achieving this end."

"Rarely does a brazen effort to pilfer the intellectual property of others appear so blatant as with the Ylmf OS product being circulated in China," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told LinuxInsider 'Clear Aim to Interfere'...

"American tech companies have to tiptoe around the European Union regulations, even though their activities easily clear in the U.S.," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. Oracle is also currently making overtures to overcome European...

Also in Oracle's favor is the fact that its pledges are, in fact, very dramatic concessions, Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. Oracle has promised to maintain and support the open source MySQL search engine; share the interface info...

Unlike American antitrust regulators, which consider a merger's market effect, or lack thereof, the EU views large companies as suspect per se, necessitating full review -- and frequently resulting in disapprovals, Raymond Van Dyke, partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times.

Industry dynamics being what they are now, both companies are likely to have been relieved to settle, Raymond Van Dyke, an attorney with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. "The downward trends in PC prices, as well as the microprocessors that drive them, have driven...

Android "has spawned a plethora of individuals and companies leveraging that platform with their own products," Raymond Van Dyke, a technology attorney in Washington, told LinuxInsider. "Since Google has expended considerable sums to roll out their paradigm, they naturally wish to maintain some control over it," he added...

It's not a done deal yet, though, Raymond Van Dyke, partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times. A Sticking Point ...

Going slow on such a momentous change may not necessarily be a bad thing, said Raymond Van Dyke, a partner in the Virginia law firm Merchant & Gould "Google's breathtaking dominance in the conversion of content worries many, including their competition, understandably so," he ...

The Federal Circuit will now review the Texas trial court's decision on an expedited basis in view of the potential impact of the decision, Raymond Van Dyke, a technology attorney in Washington, D.C., told the E-Commerce Times. "Just as with the BlackBerry case, a controversi...

Amazon's services are considered among the most efficient, with the company staking out a position as the Wal-Mart of e-commerce platforming, Raymond Van Dyke, partner with Merchant & Gould, told the E-Commerce Times "Over the nearly 10-year collaboration, Amazon provided much...